ABSTRACT
A key theme in this volume is that of the unconscious search for what is needed, whereby children and patients give unconscious cues that indicate what they are looking for in key relationships.
My first analytic work of any kind was with a child. From my detailed notes we can follow the process whereby this child gradually prompted me first to provide the therapeutic setting she needed, and then to put into words the anxieties that had been blocking her learning. Eventually she made me overcome my reluctance to interpret, and she began to make significant progress when I did.
