Theory and Practice in Child Psychoanalysis

During her lifetime Francoise Dolto revolutionized the psycho-analytic understanding of childhood. She emphasized that the child is to be recognized from birth as a person. As a gifted and innovative clinician, she developed her ideas about the unconscious image of the body. She continued to write and teach until her death in 1988.

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During her lifetime Francoise Dolto revolutionized the psychoanalytic understanding of childhood. As an early pioneer, she emphasized that the child is to be recognized from birth as a person. As a gifted and innovative clinician, Dolto developed her ideas about the unconscious image of the body. An image that is unique to each individual and linke