Delage Michel – Adolescence, family crisis and work on the bond

Adolescence is a crisis of the bond which makes it necessary for the adolescent to elaborate new connections with his environment. When a consultation is sought for different disorders, these should be studied at the same time within the logic of meaning characteristic of the subject and within the logic of the functioning characteristic of a dysfunctional family. A clinical observation illustrates the different therapies that are used in several directions.

Adolescence, septembre 2002, 20, 3, 603-614