Child and adolescent analysis relies heavily on work with the parents during every phase of the treatment in addition to helping the child return to the path of normal healthy development child psychoanalysis aims to strengthen and restore the relationship between the child and parents to a more normal loving and mutually gratifying one. Early thoughts on child analysis the emotional development of children was of considerable interest from the earliest days of psychoanalysis and freuds little hans case is probably the most famous example of early work with children. 29 child analysis child analysis r efers to the ap plication of psychoanal ytic treatment and concepts to a child with a view to understanding the psychic li fe and mental deve lopment of children. Klein was a wife and mother when she entered psychoanalysis in 1912 using insights that she gained from her psychoanalysis and applying them to disturbed children she became the first major child psychologist in 1919 she presented her first paper the development of a child at a meeting of the budapest psychoanalytic society