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Just because they're little doesn't mean their minds are simple.
Judith Yanof opened the panel by introducing Maida Greenberg, who would present an overview of the various phases of an analysis with a five-and-a-half-year-old girl adopted shortly after birth. As chair, Yanof posed questions to the panelists for discussion as different aspects of the analysis were dealt with. Two of the major questions are highlighted in this report. The first was posed after Greenberg summarized the initial contact with the child and her parents, presented the patient's developmental history, and described the lengthy evaluation process that culminated in the recommendation for psychoanalysis.
Judith Chused began by stating that she works together with the parents and the child to form healthy alliances with both. The bulk of her initial work, however, focuses on the parents in an attempt to educate them about developmental issues specific to the current problem, as well as to provide a psychological framework for their understanding of the child's internal conflicts. The hope is that the parents will be less likely to blame themselves or the child and, therefore, be more likely to make necessary environmental changes in the home. Addressing Greenberg's case, Chused stated that child psychoanalysis was warranted in that other treatment modalities were tried without success, the