[Emergencies in child clinical practice? The question of therapeutic analytic consultations]

The author analyses three analytically oriented interviews of a ten year old girl who presented a severe school phobia. These interpretation-oriented consultations helped to partly untangle the intricacies between fantasy life, childhood history and some present events in family life. Thus the symptoms could recede immediately after the consultations. Through this both frequent and illustrative case report, the author discusses the metapsychological and technical aspects concerning the legitimacy and relevance of therapeutic analytically-oriented consultations. This consultation modality can avoid the massive increase of the symptoms and of the attached secondary benefits. It enables us to take into account a certain amount of emergency in child clinical practice.