The Astonishing Adolescent Upheaval in Psychoanalysis (The International Psychoanalytical Association Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series)

This book brings together international contributors to share insight from their theoretical and clinical work with adolescents, considering the different psychopathological responses they see in adolescent patients and how these can be worked with in analysis. Each chapter addresses a specific topic, focusing on representing the clinical realities facing psychoanalysts in treating adolescents with different types of disturbances at the psychic level. They cover a range of situations and perspectives, including discussion of maternal violence, the erotic field, self-mutilation, and social withdrawal, with a core focus on issues affecting contemporary adolescents. Bringing together a vast range of experience, The Astonishing Adolescent Upheaval in Psychoanalysis presents a new approach which re-establishes the impact of the responses of significant objects in the impasses present in narcissistic suffering. This book will be of great interest to all psychoanalytic and psychodynamic clinicians working with adolescents. Cover Endorsement Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Series foreword Foreword List of contributors 1. Stupidity in the analytic field: Vicissitudes of the detachment process in adolescence 2. Cherchez la femme – becoming a woman: The mother-daughter relationship during adolescence 3. Of skin and of self-mutilation in adolescence 4. The turbulence of puberty in an uncertain world 5. What prevents adolescents from suicide? 6. Effects of adolescent debut on the infantile super-ego 7. Braving the erotic field in the treatment of adolescents 8. In praise of modesty – in defence of a certain mystery 9. Towards the construction of the adult identity: Another adolescent mourning 10. Working with adolescents: formlessness, fears and transformation 11. Social withdrawal in adolescence: Psychodynamic reflections and clinical strategies Index