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When we pathologize children that young... I really do think we are often giving them a life sentence

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Only if we rush them off to the psychiatrist instead of the analyst.
I think this can be, like in any analysis, the starting point. The identification of where development derailed, where on the developmental continuum the child has become stuck, so that the development can be encouraged back on course. I believe that with children and interested and willing parents, there is the greatest possibility of success, of derailing the derailment.