title: The use of children's religious ideas in their psychiatric evaluation.
abstract: Children's religious ideas provide a source of projective material that can be relevant clinically in a child's psychiatric evaluation. Areas that are sometimes revealed include (1) information about the child's parental introjects; (2) level of superego formation; (3) level of defense formation; (4) areas that are most anxiety provoking for the child. This religious material is frequently ignored, but can be a particularly useful adjunct when the usual child-evaluative techniques do not reveal a complete picture.
authors: Harvard Medical School, USA.
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Olds
authors: A M
authors: AM
authors: Harrison