Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Psychotherapeutic approaches: a psychodynamic perspective
those who had moved from poor functioning in
childhood to high functioning in adulthood, the
attachment style of those who had been
unsuccess-
fully
treated in their childhood was predominantly
preoccupied/entangled. Those children in the sam-
ple who did not receive psychoanalytic treatment
were found to be predominantly dismissing in
their adult attachment style. Treated participants
demonstrated a balanced and accurate memory of
their childhood experiences, though in contrast to
their siblings, their memories tended to be more
painful.
Patients’ perspectives:
Another aspect of this
study assessed the perspective of the patient by
exploring the memories of adults who were in
therapy as children and examining the meaning