Adolescent Development and Psychopathology

James B. McCarthy is Director of Psychology and Coordinator of Professional Training at Queens Children's Psychiatric Center.

This collection does succeed in providing an overview of analytic theory. . . . The book provides an excellent launching point for those interested in further study of these areas.

• Chapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Adolescent Development: Introduction: Developmental Theories of Adolescence; Adolescence; Adolescence: Struggling through the Doldrums; Youth in Turmoil: An Interpersonal Perspective; On the Dynamics of Interpersonal Isolation Chapter 3 Adolescent Psychopathology: Identification and Socialization in Adolescence; Some Aspects of Delinquency; Shame and Delinquency; Mid-Adolescence: Foundations for Later Psychopathology; Late Adolescence: Developmental and Clinical Considerations Chapter 4 Psychotherapy with Adolescents: Psychotic Adolescents and their Quest for Goals; The Borderline Adolescent: An Object Relations View; Family Transactions in the Etiology of Dropping Out of College; The Paranoid-Schizoid Position in Early Adolescence Chapter 5 Index Chapter 6 About the Editor