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There is general agreement today that a transference situation can be established in child analysis and can be managed, by and large, according to the principles applied in the analysis of adults (see, for example, Van Dam, 1966). WIth the discovery of effective analytic approaches to the initial treatment resistances of young children, educational measures that were originally regarded as indispensable are usually dispensed with (A. Freud, 1946, 1965; Klein, 1948). Moreover, good results have repeatedly been demonstrated in the treatment of preoedipal disorders. Child analysis is therefore applied today, with appropriate modifications, to the entire range of psychologically reversible disorders-the milder behavior disorders, the various categories of psychoneurosis, character neuroses, borderline illnesses, and psychotic conditions, including childhood schizophrenia. Thus the scope of the method has expanded, keeping pace with that of psychoanalytic therapy with adults (Casuso, 1965).
While adhering to the analytic framework, the therapist needs to evaluate how each patient functions in the relationship in terms of his physical and mental limitations. All children have strong resistances against verbally mature, emotionally