ABSTRACT
This chapter reports on experiences in applying psychoanalytic knowledge to early prevention in the projects. It discusses own studies in the landscape of national and international research. Considerations about the specific contribution of psychoanalysis on the founding of extra-clinical projects on early prevention will follow. The chapter gives some conceptual considerations on the "outreaching psychoanalysis" in the field of prevention. It presents a perspective from clinical psychoanalysts in Germany, bringing their knowledge to "children-at-risk" outside their "normal" treatment settings. The societal disparity between them and other children in Germany, who have never had it better, becomes greater and greater. Psychoanalysis with patients with psychosocial desintegrations are a unique clinical-empirical possibility for research in order to study the complex interplay of the genesis of different trauma factors in early development and their long-term effects. When a child perceives danger fear is activated, hence the attachment behaviour is activated.
