ABSTRACT
One important prerequisite for analytical therapy in general and for Psychoanalytic Child Therapy in particular is the survival of the child, of the therapist, and of the shared workspace—in the concrete, physical sense, as well as the figurative sense of the analytical situation. The psychoanalytical work of understanding and working through as part of the transference relationship between therapist and patient can only be done if the setting provides a framework, and if the work is not threatened by external or internal disorder. If a child endangers himself: Elisabeth wanted to climb on to a cupboard to retrieve the furry crocodile that she had thrown up there. She was about to use the chair back as a rather wobbly ladder. The triangle of psychodynamic constellations follows from the focal theories, but expands on these to include the observable relationship between the child and his social environment.
