When faced with adolescent scarifications, care providers waver between powerlessness and guilt, sometimes even to the point of acting out their aggressiveness. As a way of getting beyond control issues, group work helps to transform personal questioning into professional questioning. The therapeutic posture then becomes that of a caregiver who is able to put up with failure and hate, to let himself be deformed with being destroyed (or destroying himself), thus supporting the process of separation in adolescence.

Adolescence, 2026, 44, 1, 141-153.