Archives de catégorie : ENG – Psychothérapies V – 2012 T. 30 N°3

Angelique Costis : a home for the chimera ?

This article provides a combined commentary of the works of A. M. Nicolò and F. Richard, and raises the question of what conditions are necessary for analytical treatment in adolescence. The particularity of the analyst’s position is imagined by means of the mythological figure of the chimera, a hybrid character representing the therapist’s receiving capacities, which can tolerate a break in the uncertain boundaries between Ego and non-Ego, and make possible an emergence from primal thinking and paradoxical thoughts.

Paolo Fabozzi : styles, tools and moving forces in analytic treatment

Through a combined reading of the works of Ph. Gutton and V. Bonamino, the author examines three interconnected aspects of analytic work with adolescent patients : the styles, the tools, and the moving forces at work in the analytic treatment. This gives an idea of the particular position of the analyst working with adolescents, who must be ready to be transformed into a mediating object in order to re-start a capacity for thought and to enable the patient’s intimate relationship with himself to be restored.

Anna Maria Nicolò : the care and treatment of difficult adolescents. notes on some changes in technique

The specific nature of work with adolescents requires an adjustment of the classical analytical setting. Using cases of difficult adolescents in contexts of breakdown or arrested development, the author discusses and illustrates the notion of adjustments to the setting. She investigates the place of interpretation, its specific character in the treatment of adolescents, and the value of combining interpretive with other tools in order that the individual may be able to historicize his or her traumatic experiences.