Abstract

SALOMONSSON, Björn  and  SALOMONSSON, Majlis Winberg. Intimacy thwarted and established: Following a girl from infancy to child psychotherapy.Translated byImyra Bardelotti. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2017, vol.51, n.3, pp. 133-150. ISSN 0486-641X.

The paper is based on a single case study of a mother and her daughter, from 5 months to 7½ years. They participated in an rct on mother-infant psychoanalytic treatment, including a follow-up study at 4½ years. The girl was then in child psychotherapy from 6 to 7½ years. The mix of settings allowed for research interviews, video-recordings of the dyad's interactions, other assessments, and notes from therapeutic sessions. This enabled the authors to forge conceptual links between the observations they made during infancy and the treatment of a neurosis during latency, marked by anxiety, compulsions, and bossiness. They argue that the mother-infant relationship's brusque and speedy qualities thwarted the girl's development of intimacy. To understand how such components of the relationship became internalised in her, the authors combine their various data sources. The heuristic value of each are necessarily limited and therefore, the authors argue, both psychoanalytic understanding and empirical research are needed to gain a deeper understanding of the relations between external influence and internal development.

Keywords : longitudinal study; rct; attachment; child psychotherapy.

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