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The Hyperactive Child: A Psycho‐analytical Approach to Theory and Treatment
Author(s) -
Eyre Dean P.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
british journal of psychotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.442
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1752-0118
pISSN - 0265-9883
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0118.1985.tb00914.x
Subject(s) - psychology , intervention (counseling) , causation , developmental psychology , meaning (existential) , psychotherapist , psychiatry , political science , law
Summary A psychoanalytical approach to the causation and treatment of the hyperactive child is given. It is hypothesized that hyperactivity in children is the overt manifestation of a distortion in the mother‐child relationship which is latent. Clinical material and theory are presented from the psychoanalytical treatment of a child and an adult. This is then extrapolated to show that using these theories of brief intervention can change this overt symptom of hyperactivity and reveal the latent meaning ‐ that it is, in Fact, a disturbance in the mother herself, so enabling the mother to have the treatment she needs.