Hermine Hug-Hellmuth, genuina pionera del psicoanálisis del niño

Abstract

Hermine Hug-Hellmuth representa una referencia fundamental en la historia del psicoanálisis, pues fue quien primero se planteó la práctica analítica con los niños, aunque considerando la cara pedagógica de sus intervenciones, limitándose además a tratar chicos mayores de siete años y modificando muchos aspectos del encuadre y de las reglas técnicas, como por ejemplo no emplear el diván ni las asociaciones libres, reducir el número de sesiones, permitir el uso del juego en los casos de chicos peque- ños, valerse de la colaboración de la familia, etc. Hoy puede afirmarse que su práctica, más que específicamente analí- tica, fue psicoterapéutica, lo que no resta su importancia clínica

Hermine Hug-Hellmuth represents a fundamental regarding in the psychoanalytic’s history because she was the first one to raise the analytic practice with children, although considering the educational look of her interventions, limiting also to treat boys with more of seven years old, and she modificated many aspects of setting and of the technical rules, for example not to use the couch or the free associations, permission to use the child’s play, family colaboration, etc. Today we can say that her practice was psichotherapeutic, which doesn’t play anything down it´s clinic importance.Hermine Hug-Hellmuth represents a fundamental regarding in the psychoanalytic’s history because she was the first one to raise the analytic practice with children, although considering the educational look of her interventions, limiting also to treat boys with more of seven years old, and she modificated many aspects of setting and of the technical rules, for example not to use the couch or the free associations, permission to use the child’s play, family colaboration, etc. Today we can say that her practice was psichotherapeutic, which doesn’t play anything down it´s clinic importance.