@article{ref1,
title="A Psychoanalytically Oriented Approach as Primary and Secondary Prevention: Discussion of Joy Osofsky's “Psychoanalytically Based Treatment for Traumatized Children and Families”",
journal="Psychoanalytic inquiry",
year="2003",
author="Hoffman, Leon",
volume="23",
number="3",
pages="544-552",
abstract="Violence prevention programs can help children cope with trauma if effective strategies are developed to address youth victimization and children's exposure to domestic violence and trauma. Psychoanalysts are in a unique position to develop such primary and secondary prevention programs for children for whom violence is part of everyday life. An intense long-term relationship is an essential treatment ingredient for these profoundly troubled youngsters. In such a relationship, the therapist/analyst cannot react automatically to the inevitable hostile, destructive aggression that emerges in the treatment of severely traumatized children. A particularly key contribution by Osofsky is her discussion of the ubiquity of “countertransference every day in people who work with traumatized children.” Here I provide a clinical example of a failure that resulted from my own countertransference.<p />",
language="",
issn="0735-1690",
doi="10.1080/07351692309349049",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07351692309349049"
}