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(1967). Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 22:296-314

Encopresis in a Latency Boy—An Arrest Along a Developmental Line

Morton Shane, M.D.

INTRODUCTION AND REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

The paucity of material on encopresis in the psychoanalytic literature has been the stimulus to report the psychoanalysis of a latency boy who suffered from that symptom. My presentation will be organized according to Anna Freud's (1963a) description of the developmental line "from wetting and soiling to bladder and bowel control." The heuristic and clinical usefulness of her Developmental Profile (1962) is being increasingly established (e.g., Heinicke, 1965); (Michaels and Stiver, 1965). I shall present the analysis of a child in which it was possible to distinguish between a flight into health that simulated development and true development that progressed from soiling and wetting to bowel and bladder control. The correspondences and disharmonies with other developmental lines will be disregarded for the purposes of this paper.

Anthony (1957) said, "Clinicians on the whole, perhaps out of disgust, prefer neither to treat them [

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