herapy differed from that of Klein in her rejection of the applicability of psychoanalysis to children, especially young ones. According to Freud, the fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis such as transference and free association are not applicable to young clients. For example, the occurrence of transference that typically occurs in a relationship between a therapist and an adult client does not take place in the case of a therapist-child client relationship because parents still constitute a key aspect of their children's lives. Therefore, their role cannot be usurped by the therapist. Furthermore, it is unlikely that the child clients who are strongly attached to their parents would develop a negative transference in the therapeutic relationship (Edgcumbe, 2000).
Moreover, Freud believed that children who lack sophisticated symbolic abilities will not have developed defense mechanisms to suppress their feelings about problems. Therapists can thus help clients simply by servin
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