@article{ref1,
title="The wise baby as the voice of the true self",
journal="Psychoanalytic quarterly",
year="1999",
author="Bethelard, F. and Young-Bruehl, E.",
volume="68",
number="4",
pages="585-610",
abstract="Sandor Ferenczi wrote about a typical dream of the &quot;Wise Baby&quot; and later used this figure to represent the child who is traumatized into precocious wisdom, who becomes &quot;the family psychiatrist.&quot; We discuss Ferenczi's theory of traumatization and the &quot;split self,&quot; noting how it was taken up in D. W. Winnicott's &quot;True Self/False Self&quot; conceptualization. We then present three patients' wise baby dreams to show how these trauma theories can be used in dream interpretation and how dream interpretation can support them.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0033-2828",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}