Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of the Severely Disturbed Adolescent

Anastasopoulos, Dimitris

• Foreword -- Introduction -- A mind of one's own: introjective processes and the capacity to think -- Links between internal and external reality in devising a therapeutic setting for adolescents who present with serious conduct disorders -- The influence of psychic trauma on adolescence and its disorders -- Containment and the body of the analyst: on psychotic transference in adolescence. A case of dysmorphophobia -- Therapy for adolescents in detention for violent crime -- An invitation to a journey: the function of the double in the psychoanalytic psychodrama of a psychotic adolescent -- Factors contributing to the psychotic breakdown of three adolescents