[The transference phenomenon in child psychoanalytic therapy].

Transference in analytic child psychotherapy takes place in an extended net of relationships--in contrast to adult analytic psychotherapy. The special features of analytic child psychotherapy are a result, for one, of this extended net of relationships and, for another, of the immaturity of a child's ego development and the varying degree of severity of the psychic illness. It is the purpose of this article to show that these factors play a role in transference--based upon transference as A. Freud understood it--and to demonstrate this with different disorders by briefly recounting several case histories.