Main description:

In this book, Moses and Egle Laufer contend that severely disturbed adolescents can be assessed and treated psychoanalytically, and that their illness differs from comparable in older patients, and that the psychopathology has its source in conflicts over the sexually mature body. Extensive case histories support their argument.

Contents:

Preface , Adolescent Development, Pathology, and Breakdown , Adolescence and the Final Sexual Organization , Developmental Breakdown , The Body Image and Masturbation , The Female Adolescent, the Relationship to the Body, and Masturbation , The Superego, the Idealized Body Image, and Puberty , Breakdown and the Treatment Process , Breakdown, Transference, and Reconstruction , Object Relationships, the Use of the Body, and Transference , Attempted Suicide in Adolescence: A Psychotic Episode , Clinical Issues , Compulsive Behavior and the Central Masturbation Fantasy: Clinical Implications , Developmental Foreclosure , Countertransference and the Adolescent's Sexual Development , Assessment , Assessment of Psychopathology in Adolescence , The Work of Assessment