ABSTRACT
This section of the book, “Clinical observation groups and the psychoanalyses of children,” presents the clinical observation of children using the 3-LM by the members of the IPA Clinical Observation Committee. The 3-LM methods were adapted to study the analysis of children by Altmann de Litvan, Miller, and Bernardi, presented in our first book, Time for Change: Tracking Transformations in Psychoanalysis—The Three-Level Model (2014). In this second book, we thought it would be of interest to present two clinical narratives with analytic material on child patients, which provide and reflect on the evidence of transformations the children underwent through their analytic processes. The first clinical narrative presents a detailed presentation and discussion of the analysis of a 5-year-old girl, at the three levels. The second clinical narrative is about the case of a 5-year-old boy who lost his mother at a very young age; here the group focused on observing what the young patient could teach us about his early mourning. Do children go through the mourning process? If so, what are its distinctive features?
