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It is the psychoanalytic setting that makes it possible to apply psychoanalytic theory in the clinic and differentiates it from all other forms of psychological treatment. However, some difficulties arise when applying psychoanalysis to children. The ongoing psychic development of the child, and in particular the psychological and physical dependence on the parent, makes it difficult to implement the psychoanalytic setting in its adult form. Cases such as the request for assistance by the parent, the determination of time and payment and related conditions with the parent exceed the adult psychoanalytic framework. In these circumstances, there is a need for another setting for the work done with child to be characterized as psychoanalytic and differentiated from other therapies. This setting has to be internal because of the unfavorable external conditions. In other words, the guarantor of the psychoanalytic work with the child will be the analyst's internal setting. What constitutes this setting is the analyst's personal analysis, analytical formation and experience of working with the child.