1st Edition

Adolescent Psychiatry, V. 25 Annals of the American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry

Edited By Aaron H. Esman Copyright 2001
302 Pages
by Routledge

302 Pages
by Routledge

302 Pages
by Routledge

Volume 25 of The Annals is a timely reprise on developmental, psychotherapeutic, and forensic issues that enter into the evaluation and treatment of adolescents. It traverses different explanatory perspectives, offers integrative expositions of several treatment modalities, and wrestles with the legal dimensions of adolescent care. The volume begins with three developmental studies: Shelley... Read more
Part I: Developmental Issues. Doctors, Attachment-Individuation: Clinical Notes Toward a Reconsideration of "Adolescent Turmoil." Jaffe, Organizing Adolescents(ce): A Dynamic Systems Perspective on Adolescence and Adolescent Psychotherapy. Levine, The Tao and Talmud of Adolescence and Young Adulthood: Being, Belonging, Believing, Benevolence. Part II: Psychopathology in Adolescence. Westen, Chang, Personality Pathology in Adolescence: A Review. Garber, Adolescent Mourning: A Paradigmatic Case Report. Part III: Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Adolescents. Shapiro, Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychotherapy in Adolescence. Mufson, Dorta, Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depressed Adolescents: Theory, Practice, and Research. Fowler, Rosenberg, Integrated Treatment in the Care of Seriously Disturbed Adolescents and Their Families. Gaines, Berkovitz, & Kohn, Chess as a Way of Improving Object Relationships in Narcissistic Teenagers. Part IV: Forensic Considerations in Adolescent Psychiatry. Levine, Informed Consent of Minors in Crucial and Critical Health Care Decisions. Dulit, Girls Who Deny a Pregnancy; Girls Who Kill the Neonate.

Biography

Aaron H. Esman, M.D., is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry (Emeritus), Cornell University Medical College, and Faculty, New York Psychoanalytic Institute.  He is editor of Psychology of Adolescence: Essential Readings and Psychiatric Treatment of Adolescents and author of Adolescence and Culture.  He maintains a private practice of psychiatry with adults, adolescents, and children.