ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about the doing aspect of things and focuses on what has been called by some the "non-specific" component of the treatment: not so much what to do as how to do it. It provides specific examples of clinical situations and types of treatment in order to do so. Treatment and context keep swapping places; figure becomes ground and ground, figure. Treatment, therefore, is not exactly the same as therapy, and neither of them has a monopoly on, or even a reliable relationship with, being therapeutic. One powerful meaning of treatment, particularly in tablet form, is likely to be that there is something missing or wrong in the child and that he needs something not normally accessible to him. The treatment is often an actual clinical treatment, but it could be simply the holding still—the psychological equivalent of a plaster cast—that enables the self-healing developmental process to take place.
