title: A conversation with Dr Michael Fordham. Interview by James Astor.
abstract: In this interview in Dr Fordham's 83rd year he describes how he started to work with children, and how Mrs Jung was supportive. He talks about the initial suspicion this interest generated in the wider Jungian community. He refers to his acceptance of and interest in the psychotic elements in child analysis and his transference-based approach to working with these elements. He reflects on his own birth, his work with evacuee children in hostels during the war years and the politics of supervision. He describes the core Jungian concepts which underpinned his work and the theoretical differences from the Kleinian and Anna Freudian positions.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fordham
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002665:Child Psychiatry; D006801:Humans; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D014167:Transference, Psychology