Psychoanalytical Child Psychotherapy: The Parent’s Role

Abstract

The comprehension of the parents' relation with their child's psychotherapy has developed considerably since the beginning of child psychoanalysis, elevating the importance of active participation of family into the patient's treatment, as also the attention of the therapist to unconscious phenomena that occur in this context. This issue refers to a narrative revision of psychoanalytical literature about presence of parents in child psychotherapy, which objective refers to analyze the way contemporaneous authors who work with psychoanalytical perspective understand the parents' role in child psychotherapy. Initially, were consulted books of classic authors in psychoanalysis, and a specifi c book of more contemporaneous authors about the matter of the parents' role in child psychotherapy. Articles about the same theme were then searched into the scientifi c electronic basis SciELO (Scientifi c Electronic Library Online), PePsic (portal of Electronic Psychology Journals) and LILACS (Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature). Were selected for analysis 19 articles published at online papers. It was verifi ed that the texts approached specially the position of analyst/psychotherapist and the relations established with the patient's parents, being emphasized, mainly, the necessity of receiving the parents' anguishes and their transference directed to the therapist, creating an space of continence, refl ection and ressignifi cance of the child's problem. Keywords:Parental role, psychoanalysis, child psychotherapy. Psicoterapia Psicanalítica Infantil: O Lugar dos Pais ResumoA compreensão da relação dos pais com a psicoterapia do fi lho desenvolveu-se consideravelmente desde o início da psicanálise com crianças, elevando a importância da participação ativa da família no tratamento, bem como da atenção do analista ou terapeuta diante de suas manifestações inconscientes que se fazem presentes nesse contexto. O presente trabalho consiste numa revisão narrativa da literatura psicanalítica sobre a presença dos pais na psicoterapia infantil, tendo como objetivo analisar a maneira pela qual autores que trabalham com a perspectiva psicanalítica na atualidade compreendem a participação dos pais no tratamento. Foram consultados inicialmente livros de autores considerados clássicos na psicanálise e um livro específi co sobre o lugar dos pais na psicanálise de crianças de autores mais 1 Mailing address: Av.