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.
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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.
Novelletto Arnaldo: analogies and differences between child analysis and adolescent analysis
The author questions the specificity of the treatment of adolescents through a clinical case:Ê An analyzed child asks to resume treatment at adolescence. Such a request is examined mainly from the point of view of the dynamics of both transference and counter-transference giving both situations a quite different angle. The aim of such a paper is to contribute to a bettering of adolescent psychoanalysis and to cast a new light on both analogies and differences with child analysis.
Florence Goldberg: gushing visions of the pubertal scene
This article emphasizes the experience of the emergence of homosexuality during adolescence for writers such as Yukio Mishima and Hervé Guibert and their accounts of it. From the beginning it seems to be a fantasy enactment of the pubertal scene, mixing incest, abjection and the fascination for horror. This text questions the outcome of the pubertal scene and the importance of the drives activated by a sensory and perceptive intensity, that these two writers bring into the foreground throughout their autobiographic writing. Moreover, the article suggests that we distinguish between what is the order of perversion and more precisely the question of a perverse construction.
Marcel Houser: a doubtful beauty or the adolescence in question
It’s a question of a view point, not without a certain seriousness, of the emotional relations held among the principal characters directed by Sam Mendes, in his film entitled American Beauty and in particular, the emotional drama experienced by the adolescents who find themselves in the center of the action.The latter, their identity shifted about, among the adults in proximity, who are first of all, their parents, seem to the author, to be screaming with a very contemporary truth.
The clearly pregenital nature of the pseudo-sexual relations engaged in by some of the characters, seems quite obvious here. And it seems clear that the mirror aspect of the relations experienced correspond above all, to an erotisation of an essentially narcissitic and phallic nature, therefore of defensive auto and homo erotisms, much more than of an authentic sexualisation.
The study concludes with a brief theoretic review of the main difficulties encountered by all adolescents worldwide, and probably of all time, even if different societies, inevitably changing in the course of history can lead to apparently specific forms of expression.
Franklin Rausky: a case of divided adolescent: a mutiple personnality disorder at the beginning of the 19 century
The case of Julie, a German young girl int he begining of XIXth century : the first chronicle,written in a clinical style,of a syndrom of multiple personality of an adolescent, with an ordinary personality,three alternating personalities and psychological phoenomena : post-hypnotical amnesia, Out-of-Body Experience (OBE), mystical preachings in transe – state and endoscopic hallucinations.