Brief communications from the edge: psychotherapy with challenging adolescents |
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Authors: | Anne Horne |
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Institution: | 1. Gender Identity Development Service, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust , 120 Belsize Lane, London, NW3 5BA, UK gidu@tavi-port.nhs.uk |
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Abstract: | Issues of technique in work with adolescents who, if adult, would attract a forensic label, are discussed with especial focus on interpretation and countertransference in the light of primitive anxieties and body-based mechanisms of defence. The therapist as 'new object' and 'developmental object' is explored. The case study of Matthew - a mid-adolescent who has abused a younger child, is delinquent, seeks violent and dangerous situations and experiences outbursts of aggression - is used as illustration throughout. |
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Keywords: | Interpretation Developmental And Psychoanalytic Stance Delinquency Sexual Abuse Aggression |
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