title: [Children's drawings: a case study of the psychotherapeutic treatment of a seven year old boy].
abstract: The paper explores the meaning of childrens' pictures as a symbol for growing autonomy. The psychotherapy of a 7-years old turkish boy, who came to treatment with a destroyed identity, will be described. The parents failed to support the boy's development by adequate mothering. The aggressive symptomatic as it emerged at the beginning of the psychotherapy is shown in a shipwreck. During therapy he succeeds to develop age-appropriate autonomy that is shown in a series of drawings.
authors.affiliation: g.stephan.kjp@gmx.de
authors.forename: Gabriele
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Stephan
mesh_terms: D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology; D001155:Art Therapy; D002648:Child; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005201:Fantasy; D006801:Humans; D007207:Individuation; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D010989:Play Therapy; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D019962:Reactive Attachment Disorder / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D012649:Self Concept; D012801:Sibling Relations; D013561:Symbolism; D014421:Turkey / Q000208:ethnology; D014481:United States