TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2003//
TI  - A Psychoanalytically Oriented Approach as Primary and Secondary Prevention: Discussion of Joy Osofsky's “Psychoanalytically Based Treatment for Traumatized Children and Families”
JO  - Psychoanalytic inquiry
A1  - Hoffman, Leon
SP  - 544
EP  - 552
VL  - 23
IS  - 3
N2  - 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 /> 
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SN  - 0735-1690
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07351692309349049
ID  - ref1
ER  -