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In this book, international contributors share insight from their theoretical and clinical work with adolescents, considering the different psychopathological responses they see in adolescent patients.
List of contents
Series Foreword by Silvia Flechner 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 defense 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
About the author
Roosevelt Cassorla, MD, PhD, is a training analyst at the Brazilian Psychoanalytic Societies of São Paulo and Campinas. He is Full Professor at the State University of Campinas and a member of the College of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis. His recent books include
Advances in Contemporary Psychoanalytic Field Theory (co-editor) and
The Psychoanalyst, the Theatre of Dreams and the Clinic of Enactment (both Routledge), and
Suicide Studies: Psychoanalysis and Mental Health (in Portuguese). He received the 2017 Mary S. Sigourney Award for Outstanding Achievement in Psychoanalysis.
Silvia Flechner, MD, is a child, adolescent, and adult training analyst at the Uruguayan Psychoanalytic Society. She is the IPA Publications Committee Chair for the term 2021-2025, and she has been a member of the Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis since 2008.
Summary
In this book, international contributors share insight from their theoretical and clinical work with adolescents, considering the different psychopathological responses they see in adolescent patients.
