"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" The analysis of a five-year-old girl.
How the analyst and the patient shape the analysis is a complex matter varying with the stage of the analysis and the individual characteristics of each patient and analyst. Examining analytic hours from the beginning, middle, and end of a five-through-seven-year-old girl's treatment suggests an intricate pattern evolving from observing and learning toward elaborating a free-ranging, creative, multilevel interplay of internal dialogues and affects.
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Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.
D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008418:Masturbation / Q000628:therapy*; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy