Even if there is some kind of specificity in the several ways of adolescent care (such as for example the borderline ones), the author insists on the importance for any therapist to be able to refer to one, and only one, theoretical and clinical pattern and to be well informed of the most important element in the discipline, i.e. the pattern of neurosis.
A long-lasting and thorough analytic training must be prior to any too hasty specialization.
Archives de catégorie : ENG – Psychothérapie – 2000 T.18 n°1
Maxime de Sauma: the space of adolescence: about the necessity of a specific training for the treatment of adolescent patients
Resting on his experience as a psychoanalyst at the Brent Adolescent Centre, the author, argues about his strong belief that the psychoanalytic treatment of adolescents demands a specific knowledge and training from the analysts that rests on the specificity of that very stage in life called adolescence.
Novelletto Arnaldo: analogies and differences between child analysis and adolescent analysis
The author questions the specificity of the treatment of adolescents through a clinical case:Ê An analyzed child asks to resume treatment at adolescence. Such a request is examined mainly from the point of view of the dynamics of both transference and counter-transference giving both situations a quite different angle. The aim of such a paper is to contribute to a bettering of adolescent psychoanalysis and to cast a new light on both analogies and differences with child analysis.