title: Use of insight in child analysis.
abstract: The role of insight in working with a preadolescent girl, who was engaged in a seven-year analysis, is examined from the perspective of therapeutic action. The patient's use of insight, within the context of a transference neurosis, contributed substantively to changes in the depth of object relations, modulation of affect, return of development to its anticipated pathways, marked reduction of obsessive-compulsive symptomatology, and profound flowering of intellectual development.
authors.affiliation: Institute of the Philadelphia Association for Psychoanalysis, USA.
authors.forename: A G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Schmukler
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D002666:Psychology, Child