Preface

This issue of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America is the second in a pair of volumes devoted to providing a view of psychodynamic psychotherapy as it is currently practiced. A century has passed since psychodynamic psychotherapy with children made its debut in the case of “Little Hans,” in which the horse phobia of a 5-year-old boy was treated by Freud through consultations and subsequent recommendations to the boy’s father. During the following century, child and adolescent psychodynamic psychotherapy flourished when child and adolescent psychiatry focused on fostering development and a healthy adaptation to life circumstances. With the publication of the DSM III, the field shifted toward a focus on diagnosis, with descriptive psychopathology as an organizing r...

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