Main description:

Mainstream analysts working in the Jungian tradition have largely neglected adolescents. Mara Sidoli and Gustav Bovensiepen remedy that omission by showing how and why psychological and physical abuse suffered by young children erupts in violent and destructive behavior against the self and others. Using clinical material, they establish the link between archetypal imagery, disturbed behavior, and instinctual drive. Drawing from all schools of analytical psychology, the authors, along with several associates, focus mainly on severe neurotic disturbances and behavioral problems occurring in adolescence. Because most disturbances originate in the body, the contributors concentrate on self-destructive behavior: suicide, self-mutilation, and other self-damaging acts. Focused heavily on the treatment of these adolescents, the text has selections from an international group of contributors, providing diverse accounts of both theoretical and technical approaches to therapy. The case histories illustrate the relationship between the analyst and the adolescent patient as it develops in consultation.
Interweaving the concepts of Jung, Freud, and others makes this volume a unique contribution to contemporary psychoanalysis. It will be of sustained interest to psychoanalysts, child psychotherapists, social workers, psychiatrists, and psychologists.

Contents:

Preface Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Glossary of Terms Part I Individual Adolescent Psychotherapy in Private and Clinical Practice Section 1. A Jungian Approach Introduction to Section 1: Jung's Contribution to the Understanding of Adolescence and A Review of the Literature Gustav Bovensiepen 1 Notes on Technique and the Personality of the Analyst Gustav Bovensiepen and Mara Sidoli 2 Experience of Time and Death Fantasies in Adolescence Mara Sidoli and Gustav Bovensiepen Section 2. Incest Fantasies and Separation Introduction to Section 2 3 Oedipus as a Pre-Oedipal Hero Mara Sidoli 4 Incest Fantasies as a Defense against the Analysis of Pre-Oedipal Object Relations Gustav Bovensiepen Section 3. Acting Out Incest Fantasies Introduction to Section 3 5 The Trickster and the Terrible Mother: Archetypes Experienced during the Treatment of a Preadolescent Sexually Abused Girl Janet Glynn-Treble 6 Heroic Deeds, Manic Defense, and Intrusive Identification: Some Reflections on Psychotherapy with a Sixteen-Year-Old Boy Miranda Davies Section 4. Defenses of the Self: A Psychological Suicide Introduction to Section 4 7 Defenses of the Self in a Preadolescent Boy Miranda Davies 8 Suicide and Attacks on the Body as a Containing Object Gustav Bovensiepen Section 5. Heterosexual and Homosexual Elements in the Search for Identity Introduction to Section 9 What to Do about Mother? An Adolescent Girl's Dilemma Jane Bunster 10 The Search for Identity in Late Adolescence Brian Feldman Section 6. Attacks on the Body Introduction to Section 6 11 Bulimia in Adolescent Women: An Exploration of Personal and Archetypal Dynamics in Analysis BrianFeldman 12 The Stone Womb: A Case of Psychogenic Paralysis Francesco Bisagni Section 7. Attacks on the Mind Introduction to Section 7 13 The Fight against Big Nose Mara Sidoli 14 First Steps toward Independence: Transference Manifestations in a Fifteen-Year-Old Boy Helga Anderssen-Plaut Part II Inpatient and Outpatient Adolescent Psychotherapy in Institutions Introduction to Part II 15 The Clinic as Container Gustav Bovensiepen 16 Group Therapy in a Day Care Setting Heide Heidtke and Michael Neumann-Schirmbeck 17 Borderline States, Incest, and Adolescence: Inpatient Psychotherapy Geoffrey Brown 18 Sandplay Therapy and Verbal Interpretation with an Anorexic Girl Gianni Nagliero 19 Individual Psychotherapy in a Residential School for Girls Janet Glynn-Treble Index