ABSTRACT
Anna Freud taught her students to attend, to listen, to observe, and to apply a psychoanalytic perspective to the clinical and extraclinical interventions that aim to maximize developmental potential. Since 1991, clinical contact has been initiated on the scene by officers and child analysts and analytically oriented clinicians, sometimes only moments after shootings, stabbings, beatings, and other scenes involving the potential for psychological trauma. In the Child Development–Community Policing (CD–CP) programme and in the work of the National Center for Children Exposed to Violence, child analysts and analytically informed colleagues have found a new setting in which psychoanalytic principles of development can be applied, explored, and expanded. The goal of the CD–CP programme is to expand the role and options available to police officers through training and consultation and to introduce a new partnership in which psychoanalytic principles are conveyed and applied.
