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Adolescents in Crisis offers a psychoanalytic perspective on the complex that can arise when young people renegotiate their relationship with the world and their own bodies as they experience puberty.
List of contents
Introductions 1. Identity Formation in Adolescence 2. The devil and the deep blue sea: dyadic narcissism and the problem of individuation 3. Preadolescence, the silence of words and the words of the body 4. Growing up in digital times and the adolescent's experience of being in-a-body 5. Leaving the shallow ends for deep water: collaborative work with parents and adolescents 6. Work with parents of adolescent patients 7. Reflections on eating disorders in children and adolescents 8. Assessing delinquency in adolescence 9. Risk of self-harm and suicide in adolescence 10. On developmental breakdown: A conversation with Egle Laufer Glossary
About the author
Emanuela Quagliata is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst working in private practice in Rome, Italy. She teaches at the Tavistock-model trainings in Florence and at the Institute of Psychoanalysis in Rome and is Chair for Europe of the IPA Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis. She is the author of
Becoming Parents and Overcoming Obstacles (2013) and, with Margaret Rustin, is the editor of
Assessment in Child Psychotherapy (2000).
Alessandra Marsoni is a London, UK based Adolescent and Adult Psychotherapist working in private practice with children, adolescents, parents and adult patients.
