These guidelines are the essentials of psychoanalytic therapy with children and adolescents. The book thus contains foundational knowledge, the current state of research, and condensed experiences for successful treatments. In addition to presenting the symptomatology, the guidelines offer a psychoanalytic approach to etiology and psychodynamics, differentiated insights into diagnostics, considerations regarding specific treatment difficulties and techniques, as well as a literature overview. The diagnostics of OPD KJ-2 are also taken into account. This compendium is useful and relevant for therapists and for training and education, and it is also helpful for preparing reports for evaluators. It includes the following guidelines: – Psychoanalytic basic concepts – Anxiety – ADHD – Depression – Encopresis – Enuresis – Eating disorders – Personality disorders – Regulation disorders – Pain – Obsession – Trauma – Suicidality – Self-harming behavior.