After having described the specific evolution gone through by both the adolescent and his family, the author presents the choice of the setting for the family therapy. The original approach of an ÇÊintegrated therapyÊÈ is here offered to adolescents with very serious clinical disturbances, associating both individual treatment and family- or couple-treatment.
Archives par mot-clé : Adolescence
Enrico de Vito: individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy at adolescence
Resting on the uniqueness of the psychoanalytic process, the author presents the multifold modalities of cure liable to be used with the psychotherapy of adolescents. He analyzes the several implications towards a therapeutic action of the new discoveries on the development of the new born, and on attachment, as well as in the field of neurosciences.
Besides, the author insists on the assessment phase and the best adaptated indications as well as the goals mainly centered on the rehandling of self-reorganization processes through a research on the psychological representations.
Moses Laufer, Egle Laufer: psychoanalysis at adolescence
The authors claim that psychoanalysis is the best treatment for severely ill adolescents. Their approach is centered on the developmental breakdown having taken place after puberty transformations leading to a pathological state. Such a breakdown prevents the adolescent from integrating gradually the sexually mature body in his psychological reality, thus conditioning a breakdown in his relationship to reality. These adolescents behave in a defensive psychotic behaviour without its being a true and definite psychosis. The developmental breakdown were to be re-lived along the analysis in the form of a ÇÊtransference breakdownÊÈ offered to severely ill adolescents.
Franois Ladame: psychoanalytic treatments at adolescenceÊ: about a few general principles
Several modalities of the psychoanalytic treatment of adolescents exist, yet it necessary to be aware of both their limitations and advantages in order to orientate young patients in the best way possible.
The orientation rests on the assessment of the psychological functioning, it follows a goal that should be reached by means of the chosen treatment (traditional cure, individual psychotherapy, group or family therapy, psychodrama). Such are the general principles adopted by the author in his paper.
Jean-Jacques Rassial: lacanian positions on adolecence, yesterday and to day
Lacan never isolated adolescence as a concept as such.
Only for the past few years did some of his followers start some new pondering over the metapsychological status of adolescence. The creation of the Institute of Psychoanalysis of Adolescence, i.e. ÇÊLe BachelierÊÈ, evidences their demands for a theoretical approach of adolescence and for the necessary training of such analysts.
Catalina Bronstein: freudian and kleinian approaches on adolecence, yesterday and to day
Both differences and resemblances between FreudÕs and KleinÕs theories on infantile sexuality will here illustrate the vision their followers have on adolescence.
Even if theoretical positions diverge, they may become richer for a better understanding of adolescent processes and their pathologies. The author here gives an example of such a situation by quoting the importance of Moses and Eglé LauferÕs theoretical points of views on the breakdown and experience of bodily transformations at adolescence and of those of the post-KleiniansÕ about the projective and introjective identification processes and the analysis of unconscious fantasies dealing with introjected objects.
Florence Guignard: is there a specifity of analytic training for adolescent careÊ?
In order to answer such a question, the author wishes to ponder over the evolution of the specificities of both children and adolescents in the past fifteen years in the Western countries and in France in particular. She concludes in stressing a progressive wiping out of the several specificities of the latency period, of puberty and of the second period of adolescence. Such a conclusion is loaded with consequences since it questions in a totally new approach the whole erection of repression and biphasism of post-Oedipian identifications as they were described by Freud.
From the point of view of the present training of the psychoanalyst roughly speaking, she suggests that the pattern of child psychoanalysis should remain the princeps pattern, thus being followed by adolescent psychoanalysis without opposing the one to the other in any other way but the very psychological structures of the subjects to which such patterns are meant to refer.
Marilia Aisenstein: against some kind of collapse in psychoanalysis as in life
Even if there is some kind of specificity in the several ways of adolescent care (such as for example the borderline ones), the author insists on the importance for any therapist to be able to refer to one, and only one, theoretical and clinical pattern and to be well informed of the most important element in the discipline, i.e. the pattern of neurosis.
A long-lasting and thorough analytic training must be prior to any too hasty specialization.
Maxime de Sauma: the space of adolescence: about the necessity of a specific training for the treatment of adolescent patients
Resting on his experience as a psychoanalyst at the Brent Adolescent Centre, the author, argues about his strong belief that the psychoanalytic treatment of adolescents demands a specific knowledge and training from the analysts that rests on the specificity of that very stage in life called adolescence.
Michel Fize: homosexuality in the 11-15 years olds
Partially liberated in adult discourse, homosexuality continues to be stigmatized in the world of young males, in so far as it reflects that part of feminity unbearable at the age of virility. It signifies how much the discovery of such a sexual orientation in adolescents of 11-15 years old remains a trial to overcome.