Some aspects of separation and loss in therapy with disturbed children.
I have suggested that the impact of loss and separation on disturbed children can best be assessed from a developmental point of view that takes into account not only the reality of the object loss but the subjective experiences of the loss or separation, which will be determined by a host of subtle psychological variables. I have attempted to illustrate these existential variables with clinical examples.
D001010:Anxiety, Separation / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D007207:Individuation; D008297:Male; D009769:Object Attachment; D010553:Personality Development; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy