Origins of Child Psychoanalysis

Child psychoanalysis has been built upon a number of contradictions and paradoxes. However, its findings have permeated our culture and are featured in the headlines and content of numerous popular magazines as "tips and advice for proper child-rearing and education."Child psychoanalysis has existed for over a century, and for some psychoanalysts, this discipline has yet to become anything more than an application of adult psychoanalysis to children.Nevertheless, child psychoanalysis has achieved significant psychotherapeutic successes and has contributed an incomparable wealth to psychoanalytic theory, opening up broad and promising perspectives for a better understanding of the functioning of the human psyche.