Several modalities of the psychoanalytic treatment of adolescents exist, yet it necessary to be aware of both their limitations and advantages in order to orientate young patients in the best way possible.
The orientation rests on the assessment of the psychological functioning, it follows a goal that should be reached by means of the chosen treatment (traditional cure, individual psychotherapy, group or family therapy, psychodrama). Such are the general principles adopted by the author in his paper.
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Gianluigi Monniello : destinies of violence in an outpatient hospital
In an outpatient hospital, the destinies of violence and its different manifestations depend on the support offered by the therapist, the group of caregivers and the containing institutional setting, which can provide models for symbolization.
The detailed description of the treatment of Ennio, a violent adolescent, give an illustration of the primary therapeutic aim, which is the interiorization of the containing function of the outpatient hospital, considered as a transferential community where tranferences are deployed in an inter-subjective dimension.
Marion Minerbo : cão-terapeutas
This is the narrative of an analysis that was made possible when my dogs became part of the transferential field. It helps us to problematize the idea of a setting established from outside the analytical process, that is, without taking into consideration the transferential diagnosis.
Raymond Cahn : subjectality and subjectivation
Starting with Freud’s originary distinction between subject of the ego and object of the ego, and thus between subjectal and objectal poles, subjectality is conceived of as the process that enables the emergence of a creative, autonomous self, shedding light, through their disturbances, on some essential aspects of the setting and of the counter-transference which determine the possibility or impossibility of genuine psychoanalytical work.