The importance of child psychoanalysis in the training of analysts

Abstract

In our early days, as Asociación Psicoanalítica del Uruguay, our Training Institute had a characteristic which made it, partly, different from the Institutes of other psychoanalytic associations. At the same time as, for instance, Esther Bick submitted to the International
Congress, Edinburgh 1961, a paper indicating the difficulties encountered by analysts when working with children, and in Buenos Aires and in other associations, the same concern emerged, in our Association, most of its members worked with almost the same intensity with both adult and child patients. We assume that although child analysis is based on the same theoretical basic concepts as the analysis of adults (transference, resistance, regression), these basic notions find different expressions in each case and, therefore, lead to an also different approach.