| The complex nature of exposure to early childhood trauma in the psychoanalysis of a child. | |
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PMID: 20068246 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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When an intense transference relationship evolves during psychoanalysis, sensory and emotional experiences associated with trauma can arise spontaneously. Detailed clinical process material is presented from the psychoanalysis of a six-year-old boy whose severe trauma at age two and a half contributed to his conflicts about aggression and gender identity, impeding his development. A series of analytic sessions during which he spontaneously enacted fantasies, feelings, and defenses associated with the trauma in the immediacy of the transference relationship are used to illustrate how psychoanalysis provided him the safety to rework this overwhelming experience and its aftermath, thereby restoring progressive development. It is hypothesized that while work with trauma was only one feature in an otherwise complex treatment, psychoanalysis provided a sophisticated form of reexposure to developmentally primitive emotions, images, and fantasies that this child had not consciously connected with the trauma. Associated early childhood conflicts pertaining to aggression, separation, and gender identity, warded off with rigid defenses, had become intertwined with the trauma and its aftermath, rendering them otherwise inaccessible. |
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Authors:
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Judith M Chertoff |
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Type: Case Reports; Journal Article |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association Volume: 57 ISSN: 1941-2460 ISO Abbreviation: J Am Psychoanal Assoc Publication Date: 2009 Dec |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2010-01-13 Completed Date: 2010-03-15 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 7505579 Medline TA: J Am Psychoanal Assoc Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 1425-57 Citation Subset: IM |
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Baltimore-Washington Center for Psychoanalysis, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Georgetown University Medical Center, MD, USA. jmchertoff@gmail.com |
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Child Child Development Child Psychology* Family / psychology* Fantasy Gender Identity Humans Life Change Events* Male Play and Playthings Psychoanalytic Therapy Transference (Psychology)* |
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