“I Want to Be All Gone”: Psychoanalysis of a Three-Year-Old Failure-to-Thrive Child

Training and Supervising Analyst, Child and Adolescent Supervising Analyst, and Chair, Child and Adolescent Analysis Committee, Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. Earlier versions of this paper were presented September 16, 2011, at the Montreal Children's Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, and January 25, 2011, at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society. I thank Dr. Barbara Rocah and Edward Kaufman for their thoughtful reading and valuable comments on this manuscript.