The treatment starts when the adolescent or young adult patient appropriates the therapeutic demand and formulates for himself a need to understand. This means leaving a narcissistic register that has been defensively foregrounded in the elements of discourse, which masks the suffering and the symptom. The addition to the initial psychotherapeutic setting of a monthly psychodrama session helped the object transference to manifest itself.

Adolescence, 2017, 35, 1, 111-117.