Early childhood psychotherapy: psychic processes and mental representations
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https://doi.org/10.33898/rdp.v23i90/91.642Keywords:
Psychoanalysis, Attachment, Mental Representation, Relfective Function, InfancyAbstract
This article discusses a practice in child psychotherapy that allows to work with the internal world of children and to produce changes on it. These changes can take place both in the psychological processes of the child and in his or her mental representation, depending on the severity of the psychopathological disorder we deal with. This practice integrates results from research on early interactions in childhood, attachment, self development, intersubjectivity and reflexive function. Relevant aspects of these psychological functions are discussed in detail, and the Reflective Function Scale is described. By means of a clinical case and illustrating the technique of video-intervention, it is shown how psychotherapy focused in these psychological systems can produce changes.
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