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In this paper we present some work from a much wider multidisciplinary exploratory study; child psychotherapists, psychologists and child psychiatrists are directly involved in the research aspects, and the clinical team also includes social workers.2 The study is unique, we believe, in that it has built in a psychoanalytic input, alongside standard psychological instruments, in an attempt to understand the area and generate hypotheses, which may perhaps be tested by a larger subsequent study.
Firstly we shall outline the questions which interest us. We know that