ABSTRACT
A different position is taken up in work focused more on the father-mother-child triad and regarding the early triadification and triangulation processes as essential motors of psycho-emotional development. Working with patents is a neglected topic in die literature on child psychoanalysis although all child analysts are convinced of the necessity of involving the parents in their day-to-day analytical work. The central goal of child psychoanalysis as Anna Freud defined it was “leading the child back onto the path of development”. J. Novick and K. K Novick define the forming of a therapeutic alliance with the parents during the various phases of treatment as a divided stage on which the possibilities and impediments to aspects of psychological parenthood are played out and worked through. Resistance in the psychoanalytic treatment can shift into the interpersonal field which leads to the parents being unable any longer to support the treatment.
