THE CORE RELATIONAL PROCESS - ITS DYNAMIC IN THE CHILD AND YOUTH-PSYCHOTHERAPY

FREUD's postulate of indirect validation of interpretations is accepte d as something given. From this an unconscious relational process betw een and within each participant in the therapeutic process is deduced. This relational process represents the essence of the intra- and inte rsubjective point of view, also known as the communicative approach of psychoanalysis. This point of view is compared with concepts of trans ference and object relations theories, and it is shown that the bulk o f transference conceptions and object relations theories are one-perso n-psychologies whereas the communicative approach of psychoanalysis is a two- and one-person-psychology. Case studies from the area of psych oanalytic child therapy are drawn upon to illustrate this.