ABSTRACT
It is proposed that we need to refresh and redefi ne the psychodynamic enterprise for our current times, particularly with respect to how we confi gure time-limited psychotherapy with children, young people and their parents. This necessarily involves reconfi guring some of the foundations of our clinical intervention moving away from an exclusively individual and linear approach, to one that is integrative and interactive. In order to do so, we need to attend simultaneously to four different but interconnected domains within the therapeutic encounter. These domains are identifi ed as follows:
• The intra-psychic: The internal experience of the child, young person and their parents. What the presenting behaviour ‘means’.
