The author deals with the ongoing debate over applying psychoanalysis to adolescent patients. He presents and discusses different theses about the two types of therapeutic intervention, psychoanalysis and psychotherapy
Archives par mot-clé : Psychoanalysis
François Ladame : an adolescent psychoanalysis
The psychoanalysis of a severely ill 17 year-old adolescent boy illustrates some characteristics of the treatment after a developmental breakdown. I insist on the necessary (re)construction of the fantasies that were « blanked » by the traumatic enactments, as well as on the unavoidable psychotic transference.
Adolescence, 2009, T. 27, n°1, pp. 199-216.
Antoine Hibon : going back over experiences
This article revisits the 5 year analysis-inspired research-action by a psychiatric team working with adolescents incarcerated in a Juvenile Detention Center. It gives details of the political difficulties that the deontological and technical methodology of this work encountered when dealing with psychiatric colleagues who intervene in prison, with the penal administration and with Court Youth Protection. It locates within the more general crisis in Healthcare-Justice relations a certain trend towards psychiatric minimalism when dealing with incarcerated adolescents. At the level of the participants’ social psychology, it exposes how difficult it is for healthcare to remain independent within prisons, with regard to the difficult personalities of some prisoners, the humanist side of the Penal Administration, and the re-integration of Judicial Youth Protective Services into prisons for minors since the beginning of the 20th century. It critiques the principle axes of the rhetoric known as « ad hoc », which provides ideological and technical support for 7 youth facilities with considerable budgets. Lastly, it shows the limits, due to the structural character of security-based penal authoritarianism and the action of the stock market, of attempting to organize the incarceration of minors according to the model of a medico-social institution.
Adolescence, 2009, T. 27, n°2, pp. 383-397.
Bernard Golse : between neurosciences and psychoanalysis
After a review of some examples of epistemological dialogue between neurosciences and psychoanalysis (such as the theory of delayed-action effect seen in light of current findings about memory, the activeness of perceptions, dream and different kinds of memory, representations of action and recent discoveries in neuro-imaging, infantile amnesia and the movement from analog to digital communication, the theory of mind in light of projective identification), the author considers the problematic of intersubjectivity in connection with the question of polysensorial synchrony, before concluding with an evocation of some obstacles that stand in the way of this transdisciplinary dialogue.
Viviani Do Carmo, Miriam Debieux Rosa : subjective construction of brazilian adolescents faced with the violence of the social link
In Brazil between 2002 and 2010, more than 230 000 young people between the ages of 15 and 25 were murdered. This article attempts to analyze the vicissitudes of subjective construction of Brazilian adolescents living in poverty, social anomie and violence. Starting with the creation of a group clinical set-up, psychoanalytically oriented conversation groups conducted with adolescents at school, the author constructed the following hypothesis : given the violent disqualification of their life and the total absence of any prospect of even minimal inscription in a link indicative of phallic participation in the social field, some youngsters turn violence into their own fiction and a way of forging a social link. Using a fragment of one case, the author also tries to give an idea of the method used in conducting these conversation groups.
Adolescence, 2013, T. 31, n°3, pp. 589-600.
Jacques Dayan : autonomy as value
This article discusses the idea that the concept of responsibility for Self has for several generations been a dominant representation of the relationship between the individual and the socius. One of the principle hypotheses put forward by the author is that the (relative) irresponsibility of the Self is associated with the extent of its delegation of its protection of itself to the state. These modifications would then echo the socio-economic transformations and cross over, as we will show, into the field of the human sciences. They manifest themselves, as far as psychoanalysis is concerned, in an evolution of the complaint and the greater emphasis on « narcissistic » disorders. It is still uncertain whether these transformations have a consistent affect on adolescent behavior beyond the role it seems to have regularly played : that of a social integrator, a ferry from one generation to the next.
Adolescence, 2011, T. 29 n° 3, pp. 609-614.
Rémy Potier : truth and illusion of crossover approaches between psychoanalysis et neurosciences. an interview with Roland Gori
Crossover approaches between neurosciences and psychoanalysis are receiving more and more methodological support. For this issue of the revue Adolescence, Rémy Potier interviews Roland Gori on the heuristics of this new research. Conceptual rigor often seems lacking in these approaches, which do not pay sufficient attention to the polysemy of concepts or to socio-historical issues.
Adolescence, 2011, T. 29 n° 3, pp. 531-544.
Lisa Ouss-Ryngaert : the act as process?
The author stresses four points mentioned by J. Dayan and B. Guillery-Girard. The first has to do with the reversal of conceptions of adolescence into a teleological model. The second offers a new reading of the clinical signs : a conception of the act not as a symptom, but rather as a structuring process. The third concerns the way in which we can conceive of the articulation between neurosciences and psychoanalysis. The last discusses the edification of a new framework for psychopathology. From the place of the « all-neuroscience » in the psychology of common sense, to the opening of a fruitful theorization, these interactions continue to raise questions for us.
Adolescence, 2011, T. 29 n° 3, pp. 517-526.
Guy Scharmann : on repression in adolescence
The possibility of psychanalysis in adolescence raises the question of the existance of psychoanalysis every time repression is secondary in the patient’s problematic. Using concepts of subjectivation and the subjectivating agent, this article proposes to describe the main principles of a possible practice of psychoanalysis with the adolescent.
Adolescence, 2011, T. 29 n°2, pp. 271-280.
François Ladame : something new under the sun ?
I do not share the idea of deep-seated changes in adolescence – which is still a narcissistic crisis – nor in the psychoanalysis or psychotherapy of adolescents. However, the socio-cultural field has altered, and perhaps therapists are the first ones to feel the effects of this.
Adolescence, 2011, T. 29 n°2, pp. 231-235.