This article will attempts to envision what is specific to adolescent psychotherapies using two clinical cases. The first evokes a form of “ideal of being there”, where the clinician is a benevolent interlocutor accompanying the adolescent’s intrapsychical readjustments. In the second, family disorder, among other things, hampers the encounter with the adolescent in the here and now of the session.

Adolescence, 2014, 32, 3, 599-608.