The factors differenciating the specificities of the intra psychological and interpersonal characteristics of the « young adult » as differenciated from those of the « adolescent » might be better understood with référence to the following questions : does offering a psychoanalytic cure to a « young adult » differ from starting a psychoanalytic cure with an « adolescent » ? Should the former have a « classical » cure cure which the latter would not undergo ? If such is the case, what would the arguments for and against be ?