ABSTRACT
Child psychoanalysis constitutes a method of research and treatment that has proved to be of outstanding relevance for developments in psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice, particularly in the period from the 1920s to the 1940s. These developments facilitated changes in the treatment of adult patients as well. It is therefore all the more surprising that child psychoanalysis should occupy a marginal position, as is generally observable despite some regional variations, within a science in which children’s phantasies and feelings form some of the central paradigms.
