Brief Psychoanalytic Child Therapy (PaCT) comprises 20-25 psychotherapeutic sessions conducted in alternating settings (parent-child together, child and parent, individually). During these sessions, therapist, parent, and child seek to identify and modify the core conflictual theme underlying the relationship, which we term the -Triangle of Psychodynamic constellations- (ToP).
Despite the challenges of manualizing psychodynamic treatments without purging them of their complexity, the authors have sought to create PaCT in manual form. They thus hope to ease the application and...