The author proposes that we look at the origin of the phobic symptom before it is formed – in other words, at anxiety. The notion of anxiety hysteria is revisited and studied in its relation to anxiety neurosis. The case of a 14-year-old adolescent boy illustrates the moment when anxiety neurosis does not find resolution in phobia, and the author details the reasons why in this case leads to a hypochondriac solution instead.
This article recounts the first experience of group treatment of parents of adolescents suffering from mental anorexia at the Maison des Adolescents of Calvados. The authors have chosen a faithful retranscription of productive moments from the sessions close to clinical work, emphasizing the experience of counter-transference.
Adolescence, 2014, 32, 3, 503-510.
Revue semestrielle de psychanalyse, psychopathologie et sciences humaines, indexée AERES au listing PsycINFO publiée avec le concours du Centre National du Livre et de l’Université de Paris Diderot Paris 7