Developmental Ruptures

This book questions the diagnostic categories applied to adolescents from a developmental viewpoint putting forth an alternative perspective for assessment that considers prognostic and risk indicators.

Autorentext

Anna Maria Nicolò, MD, child neuropsychiatrist, Training Analyst and Full Member of the Società Psicoanalitica Italiana (SPI) and International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), expert in child and adolescent psychoanalysis. Past President of the SPI. President of the International Association of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis (IACFP). She is a member of the Forum for Adolescence of the European Psychoanalytical Federation (FEP) Committee, of which she was Chair. Director of the Journal Interazioni.

Inhalt

Preface to the English edition

Introduction

PART 1 The adolescent and developmental ruptures

1 The adolescent mind

2 The problem of assessment in adolescence

3 Breakdown and developmental ruptures

4 The negated, repudiated, persecutory body

5 Sensoriality and developmental ruptures

6 Fear of breakdown and beyond

7 Developmental ruptures: A transformative pathway

8 Pathological transpersonal links and adolescent breakdown

PART 2 The defence against developmental breakdown

9 Perverse solutions and perversion

10 Daydreams and their evolutions

11 Martina: Alienation in the other

12 Violence as a defence against breakdown

13 Delusion, secrets and reciprocity

14 The transgender enigma

15 Self-harm and cutting