1st Edition
Adolescents in Crisis A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Challenges of Adolescence
Introduction 1
1 Identity formation in adolescence
ALESSANDRA MARSONI
2 The devil and the deep blue sea: Gender stereotypes and
the problem of individuation
JENNY SPRINCE
3 Preadolescence: The silence of words and the words of the body
FRANCO D’ALBERTON
4 Growing up in digital times and the adolescent’s experience
of being in- a- body
ALESSANDRA LEMMA
5 Leaving the shallow end for deeper waters: Collaborative
work with parents and adolescents
JUDE PIERCEY
6 Considering concurrent work with parents of adolescent patients
KERRY KELLY NOVICK AND JACK NOVICK
7 Reflections on eating disorders in children and adolescents
GIANNA WILLIAMS AND ROBERTA MONDADORI
8 OK assessing delinquency in adolescence
DONALD CAMPBELL
9 Assessing the risk of self- harm in adolescents:
A psychoanalytical perspective
ROBIN ANDERSON
10 Adolescent breakdown: Emanuela Quagliata in
conversation with Egle Laufer
EMANUELA QUAGLIATA
Glossary
Index
Biography
Emanuela Quagliata is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst working in private practice in Rome, Italy. She teaches at the Tavistock- model trainings in Florence and at the Institute of Psychoanalysis in Rome, she is Chair for Europe of the IPA Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis. Emanuela is the author of Becoming Parents and Overcoming Obstacles (2013) and, with Margaret Rustin, she is the editor of Assessment in Child Psychotherapy (2000).
Alessandra Marsoni is a London based Adolescent and Adult Psychotherapist working in private practice with children, adolescents, parents and adult patients. She worked in the Adolescent Department at the Tavistock Clinic in London where until recently she ran the Adolescent Workshop for the Child Psychotherapy training.
