title: Working with "Out-of-Control" Children--A Two-Systems Approach.
abstract: The authors apply a two-systems approach to demonstrate improved treatment possibilities and outcomes in this group of children and suggest that psychoanalysis can be defined as a multimodal strengths-based learning experience. Using clinical material from the analysis of an aggressive, "out-of-control" child, they discuss how these behaviors and symptoms are better understood as an actively constructed effort at self-regulation than as a deficiency in capacity or primitive, lagging development. They illustrate how a two-systems framework can allow for an expanded repertoire of techniques and reclaim psychoanalytic concepts that have fallen into disuse.
authors.forename: Jack
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Novick
authors.forename: Kerry Kelly
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: Novick
mesh_terms: D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D000066553:Problem Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000379:methods*; D000068356:Self-Control / Q000523:psychology*