From the various reception modalities in the adolescents units (« Maisons des Adolescents »), the authors propose to define a reception position that partakes of the ethics of a clinical approach. They stress how the request for treatment the « Maisons des Adolescents » have to be heard. It seems essential to differentiate between the application made by the youth himself and the request made by the family and social circle. They also stress the fact of taking the situation at face value in order to decrypt the contents of the application, both manifest and latent. This position is expected to make a symbolic break and relocate references regarding the difference between the sexes and generations. Emphasis is placed on the notion of reference, which, coupled with a position of auxiliary ego, is likely to reintroduce a third party. This reception position cannot be conceived without job training of the multidisciplinary teams who should establish a clinic where the unknown, to which everyone is subject, can be shared.
Archives de catégorie : ENG – Maisons des adolescents – 2012 T.30 n°2
Annie Birraux : adolescence confronted with society’s prejudices
This co-authored text seeks to examine adolescent functioning in the larger context of family and society. We will make our observation through our work in the « Maison de Solenn », an open adolescent treatment center. Is physiological criteria sufficient to define someone as an adolescent and to distinguish an adolescent from an adult ? Are today’s adolescents more precocious ? Must we consider them as adults based solely on the fact that they are bigger and stronger and cease to take into consideration the infantile part of every adolescent ?
Bernard Golse : between neurosciences and psychoanalysis
After a review of some examples of epistemological dialogue between neurosciences and psychoanalysis (such as the theory of delayed-action effect seen in light of current findings about memory, the activeness of perceptions, dream and different kinds of memory, representations of action and recent discoveries in neuro-imaging, infantile amnesia and the movement from analog to digital communication, the theory of mind in light of projective identification), the author considers the problematic of intersubjectivity in connection with the question of polysensorial synchrony, before concluding with an evocation of some obstacles that stand in the way of this transdisciplinary dialogue.