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January 16, 1967. PANEL DISCUSSION ON ADULT AND CHILD ANALYSIS: MUTUAL INFLUENCES. Peter B. Neubauer, M.D., Chairman; Alan B. Eisnitz, M.D.; Jules Glenn, M.D.; Henry Rosner, M.D.; Melitta Sperling, M.D.
Dr. Neubauer opened the panel with the hope that questions would arise concerning the mutual influences of child and adult analysis and the study of the data available from both fields. Child analysis confirms some of the major psychoanalytic propositions that come from adult analysis. There are few differences between the budding hysterical obsessional or impulsive characters in childhood and their later full-grown equivalents; however, there is not always a correspondence between the findings in child observation and therapy, and the development of symptoms later in life.
Dr. Eisnitz commented that the adult lives through, though he may not resolve, crucial phases of development and is expected to have stable self- and object-representations