Lacan never isolated adolescence as a concept as such.
Only for the past few years did some of his followers start some new pondering over the metapsychological status of adolescence. The creation of the Institute of Psychoanalysis of Adolescence, i.e. ÇÊLe BachelierÊÈ, evidences their demands for a theoretical approach of adolescence and for the necessary training of such analysts.
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Marilia Aisenstein: against some kind of collapse in psychoanalysis as in life
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.