[Identification processes in the analysis of a child. Treatment of a boy presenting with tics]

A child of eight is in analysis for tics which started a year ago. He is very tense. Enuresis and sleeping and eating difficulties also occur from time to time. The clinical material presented concerns chiefly the initial phase of the treatment in which intense castration anxiety appeared under different forms. Interpretation was based on the fact that this boy, nine years old, still regularly crept into this parents' bed at night. Certain types of identification processes play an important role in the treatment of this child.