Abstract
This paper describes the findings of qualitative clinical research into risk‐taking, dangerous behaviour in childhood using a post‐Kleinian psychoanalytic approach undertaken by a Child Psychotherapist working in a local CAMHS. The purpose of the research was to find a way of understanding this behaviour using psychoanalytic thinking and comparing material from a number of cases across a wide age range (grouped into three age bands). Three different situations were identified in which risk‐taking, dangerous behaviour occurred and these were named no‐haven, illusory‐haven and perilous‐haven. All three havens are dangerous for children. For each haven there is a different prognosis and a different strategy.
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