title: "I want to be all gone". Psychoanalysis of a three-year-old failure-to-thrive child.
abstract: A three-year-old child said to me, "I want to be all gone." Because this very young child had the capacity to talk about and demonstrate her internal world, this case offered the opportunity to explore both her life-threatening symptoms and the underlying psychological conditions that informed these symptoms. This clinical paper explores aspects of her treatment.
authors.affiliation: Child and Adolescent Analysis Committee, Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, USA.
authors.forename: Adele
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kaufman
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D005183:Failure to Thrive / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*