The Astonishing Adolescent Upheaval in Psychoanalysis [Paperback]

Series Foreword by Silvia Flechner?1 Stupidity in the analytic field: Vicissitudes of the detachment process in adolescence?2 CHERCHEZ LA FEMME Becoming a woman: the mother-daughter relationship during adolescence 3. Of Skin and of Self-Mutilation in Adolescence 4 The turbulence of puberty in an uncertain world?5 What prevents adolescents from suicide??6 Effects of adolescent debut on the infantile super-ego?7 Braving the erotic field in the treatment of adolescents?8 In Praise of Modesty - In defense of a certain mystery?9 Towards the construction of the adult identity: Another adolescent mourning 10 Working with adolescents; formlessness, fears and transformation?11 Social withdrawal in adolescence: Psychodynamic reflections and clinical strategies

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The book The Astonishing Adolescent Upheaval in Psychoanalysis is of great interest to any clinical psychoanalyst confronted with the issue of adolescence in the 21st century. Through different perspectives, renowned psychoanalysts of contemporary adolescence present the psychoanalytic tools they use when facing clinical situations that go beyond the emotional turmoil that is expected for this period of life.

Sergio Lewkowicz, professor and supervisor for psychoanalytic psychotherapy in the Psychiatry Department of the Medical School of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, is a psychiatrist and training and supervising psychoanalyst of the Porto Alegre Psychoanalytic Society (SPPA). He is a member of the gender and sexual diversity studies committee of the IPA.

This book is brilliant, exciting, and very accessible; this is a rare combination of articles and discussions from well-known psychoanalysts from all over the world, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Italy, Switzerland, Turkey, and Uruguay. They share their complex views on adolescence, dealing in depth lC)