TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1999//
TI  - An account of a little boy's attempt to recover from the trauma of abuse
JO  - Journal of child psychotherapy
A1  - Trevatt, David Lykins
SP  - 267
EP  - 267
VL  - 25
IS  - 2
N2  - This paper follows the progress of intensive psychoanalytic psychotherapy OW to a severely abused and deprived 5-yeusld boy in the first eighteen months of treatment. It attempts to show how certain adjustments to technique need to be considered to allow such a traumatized child to benefit from the held that is available. When a young child has encountered profound setbacks to early developmental process the work in therapy must account for the absences of more ordinary communication and die presence of features which are full of mistrust and emotional bleakness. The role and the personality of the therapist arc challenged in ways which demand an approach which may be considered unusually active in order to try to shape some meaning for the child without an emotional vocabulary.  Keywords: Trauma; identification; psychotherapeutic technique; abuse; memory<p /> 
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SN  - 0075-417X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00754179908260293
ID  - ref1
ER  -