ABSTRACT
A primary aim of this chapter is to focus on the different types of developmental difficulties that would indicate the need for an intensive therapeutic intervention. I also hope to convey a qualitative feel of what intensive psychotherapy offers as a form of treatment and to delineate something of the psychic, mental and affective processes involved in a therapeutic relationship: what sort of experience does intensive therapeutic contact offer a particular child and how, too, does a therapist reflect on his or her part in the therapeutic engagement in order to understand the child.
