Video games are recognized by many clinicians as useful tools for therapeutic mediation. The article aims to add to this work, by trying to focus on the value of the digital avatar as a support for verbalization, by presenting two young adolescents in a Day Hospital for children and adolescents who both participate in a group workshop using digital mediation.
Adolescence, 2022, 40, 2, 387-401.
The Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown of the spring 2020 led psychotherapists and psychoanalysts working with children and adolescents to experiment, whether they liked it or not, with new ways of meeting, by telephone or video-conferencing, and new practices were generated. In this context, new questions about the treatment format lead to a discussion of the precise place and function of telephone sessions with the adolescent as compared to the child.
Adolescence, 2022, 40, 2, 375-386.
This article reflects on teleconsultation in the treatment of a young female patient who is expatriated. Referring to contemporary studies on teleconsultation, the author hypothesizes that this treatment format is part of an extension of psychoanalysis. This analysis will show the relevance, but also the limitations of its use.
Adolescence, 2022, 40, 2, 363-373.
An analysis of remote therapy sessions with a pre-adolescent girl shows the unique forms transference takes in this specific treatment format. By making the sensorial aspect of the transference–counter-transference dynamic converge with the line of specularity and speech, the change to video-sessions alters the impact of the semiotic register in favor of signification. This type of setting treats drive excitation in a different way, with the risk of fostering a form of hystericization and excitability.
Adolescence, 2022, 40, 2, 349-361.
The authors study the extent to which violence can be facilitated by social media that promote an ideal community where the members are linked by a bond of love, and differences and aggression are actively denied. Social networks in themselves are not considered as a source of psychic conflicts; rather, the authors study the regression effect that they can induce in adolescents.
Adolescence, 2022, 40, 2, 337-347.
On the basis of long-term observations, this article will analyze the practices of secondary school teachers who use a social network with their students. The presentation of the results will enable us to add some nuance to the oft-heard claim that adolescents are increasingly on social media. On the contrary, these tools can encourage the fantasy that teachers are omnipotent and omnipresent. In some, they can also contribute to a confusion between private space and the professional sphere.
Adolescence, 2022, 40, 2, 321-335.
Through the exploration of a clinical case, this article will discuss what is at stake in the process of subjectivation in the adolescent, and also the obstacles that stand in the way of the process. The adolescent, confronted with internal and external otherness, tries to ensure the continuity of his identity even as he is undergoing transformation. We will show how the therapeutic encounter, as a transitional space, can foster the play of identifications and the gradual uniting of the of the split-off parts of the personality that is undergoing subjectivation.
Adolescence, 2022, 40, 2, 309-320.
What is a body behind the screen living through? The screen both reveals and masks. Through two clinical vignettes of sessions conducted through video-conferencing, this article will explore the question the presence and circulation of meaning on both sides of the screen. Is seeing the world while seated in front of a screen really the same thing as taking part in this world? Must one choose between seeing and indwelling?
Adolescence, 2020, 40, 2, 295-308.
Since the dawn of the digital, classic representations of sexuality have been displaced on the web. Porn has thus appeared, with its increasingly trafficked images. Children and adolescents are confronted with these unfiltered, sometimes traumatic images. How do social media deal with these images in order to protect them? In what ways has porn evolved? What is one to think about the emergence of #porn on social media, as it relates to entry into the adult world?
Adolescence, 2022, 40, 2, 281-293.
In the context of the court-ordered placement of a child/adolescent, creating some distance can bring about some psychic alterations not only in him, but in his family, and it may modify to his symbolic place with the family structure. This specific psychic work, based on physical distancing, has been modified in the digital era through the interference of different degrees of presence introduced by possibilities for remote communication.
Adolescence, 2022, 40, 2, 271-279.