SOME REFLECTIONS ON BODY EGO DEVELOPMENT THROUGH PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC WORK WITH AN INFANT

SOME REFLECTIONS ON BODY EGO DEVELOPMENT THROUGH PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC WORK WITH AN INFANT[1]

Text revised in 2012, 11 pages, Geneviève Haag copyright

 


[1] This study, with a somewhat longer theoretical discussion, was presented at the Third Congress on Infant Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, Stockholm, 3-7 August 1986, and published in France in Neuropsychiatrie de l’enfance et de l’adolescence (1988), 36 (1), 1-8.. It was published in Extending Horizons, Psycho-analytic Psychotherapy with Children, Adolescents and Family, edited by R. Szur and S. Miller, 1991, 474 p., Karnac Book. David Alcorn and Daphne Nash Briggs kindly assisted with the translation. In 2012 more theoretical statements have been added to the ones written here; they are available in the French version of this paper: « Le Dos, le Regard et la Peau », also proposed on this webdite.

Abstract. – In this chapter the author observes and explores in depth the many links that may be discovered between developments in the emotional and psychic spheres and the way that these may be related to shifts in the development of mobility and physical functioning. The theme is illustrated and discussed in the description of an infant who, at the beginning of his second year, was observed to be seriously inhibited in mobility and responsiveness. Mme Haag began engaging the child at this time in a psychotherapeutic endeavour that proved rewarding in both aspect. Rolene Szur.

 

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