ABSTRACT
Conflict according to the OPD is understood as a lasting and unconscious inner conflict, which should be described on the background of the child's or adolescent's developmental state. In accordance with the adult OPD the following seven conflicts can be differentiated: Dependence versus autonomy, submission versus control, desire for care versus autarchy, conflicts of self-value (narcissistic conflicts, self-value versus object-value), conflicts of loyalty (guilt conflicts, egoistic versus pro-social tendencies), oedipal sexual conflicts, identity conflicts (identity versus dissonance). These conflicts have been operationalized for 6 domain of daily living--family, peers, kindergarten/school, property, play and illness--for the developmental phases (2-5, 6-11, and older than 12 years) separately.
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Adolescent Psychiatry/standards , Child Psychiatry/standards , Conflict, Psychological , Adolescent , Child , Germany , Humans , Psychiatric Status Rating Scales/standards , Psychoanalytic InterpretationABSTRACT
Transference in analytic child psychotherapy takes place in an extended net of relationships--in contrast to adult analytic psychotherapy. The special features of analytic child psychotherapy are a result, for one, of this extended net of relationships and, for another, of the immaturity of a child's ego development and the varying degree of severity of the psychic illness. It is the purpose of this article to show that these factors play a role in transference--based upon transference as A. Freud understood it--and to demonstrate this with different disorders by briefly recounting several case histories.
