RAD - Reactive Attachment Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, ODD Treatment, Oppositional Defiant Disorder Therapy

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(Free-Press-Release.com) March 2, 2010 -- The Unwanted Child
Abstract

Disorders originating in the first two to three years of life stem from deficiencies in the infant contact with the primary provider, usually the mother. Clients who carry these early deficits cannot have rewarding, close relationships. They believe they are unwanted and fundamentally unlovable. Early in their lives, many of them made certain internal structural adjustments to best survive in their deficient environments. These adjustments and their consequences are identified and explained, and transactional analysis treatment to obtain the necessary restructuring is outlined.

To have hate where there once was love, to have fear where there once was trust. -- A client

This paper considers transactional analysis treatment for disorders originating in infancy. Berne (1961) defined the function of transactional analysis as helping clients put their Adult, uncontaminated, in the executive to obtain symptomatic control and relief. He asserted that transactional analysis is an advance over psychoanalysis for of obtaining these results, but that additional work is required to obtain a cure. He maintained that cure, or deconfusion of the Child, is to be accomplished through script analysis, which is the substance of psychoanalysis. He called the cure process “psychoanalytic cure” (p.172) however, when it comes to clients with problems originating in infancy, Fried (1913/1958) concluded that they do not respond to psychoanalysis, and the analyst who undertakes to treat such a case “cannot fulfill his promise of cure” (p. 124).

Whereas Freud’s work emphasized the Oedipal conflict as the origin of neurosis, later writers (Klein, 1945/1975; Rinsely, 1989) recognized that more clients suffer from distress originating from earlier experiences. Little (19900) observed:

In the course of time, fewer people have sought treatment for neurotic illness, and many more for anxieties of the far less tractable, psychotic type, even though these were not necessarily wholly incapacitating or requiring hospitalization, and this has called for changes in psychoanalytic technique. (p.18)

Such changes have indeed been taking place in the psychoanalytic field with advances such as ego psychology, object relations, self psychology, and Spotnitz’s (1993) modern psychoanalysis, although success using these developments usually requires many years of treatment.

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