Treatment of a boy with atypical ego development.
A multifaceted mode of therapeutic action is delineated as the complex neuropsychological and psychogenic factors in the development and functioning of an unusual four-year-old boy became elucidated. In addition to standard technique, the author developed a variety of psychoanalytically informed ways to facilitate his growth and ameliorate deviational aspects, especially his difficulties in appreciating and responding to the social-emotional world and establishing stable, integrated mental representations of self and other. The evolving treatment process is presented as well as attempts to coordinate and harmonize analytic and developmental goals.
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New York Psychoanalytic Institute, USA.
D002648:Child; D004532:Ego; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010553:Personality Development; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*