ABSTRACT
The child’s play activities, verbal communications and overall behaviour in the consulting room provided the evidence of the nature and evolution of the transference. The psychoanalysis of children is thus an exploration through the technique of undirected play and careful observation of the child’s overall behaviour of the nature of the child’s internal world. The child analyst is peculiarly exposed to projective pressures since a relationship must be maintained not only with the child patient but also with the child’s parents if an analytic setting is to be sustained. The therapist’s problem is less to know and understand what is happening, to decode complex transformations, more to find a way to contain the projected pain until the child is ready to be put in touch with it. Klein believed that the baby brings to his post natal existence some constitutional factors, including his mental and physical endowment which influence his expectations of the world.
