Citation

Eyre DP. Br. J. Psychother. 1985; 1(4): 255-265.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1985, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1752-0118.1985.tb00914.x

PMID

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Abstract

A psychoanalytical approach to the causation and treatment of the hyperactive child is given. It is hypothesized that hyperactivity in children is the overt manifestation of a distortion in the mother-child relationship which is latent. Clinical material and theory are presented from the psychoanalytical treatment of a child and an adult. This is then extrapolated to show that using these theories of brief intervention can change this overt symptom of hyperactivity and reveal the latent meaning - that it is, in Fact, a disturbance in the mother herself, so enabling the mother to have the treatment she needs.