ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author presents a case history of child Bob at age of 6. In the case of Bob, the ego had known a certain type of disaster, limited in quantity, and had experienced breakdown, had reorganised itself against being retraumatised by developing the feeling of being traumatised all the time except when withdrawn. All details of experience had been retained and have been subjected to classification, categorisation and collation, and to primitive forms of thinking. The reader should be reminded that both the parents had had psychiatric help before the occasion of Bob's first visit, and this had continued in the interval between then and now. No doubt this was responsible for some of the psychiatric health attained and retained by Bob.
