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Adolescence in Crisis: An Independent Psychoanalytic Approach to Adolescent Mental Health

Editor : Maria Papadima, Editor : Rachel Acheson, Editor : Nikolaos Tzikas

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I
1. Adolescence at the intersection of inner and outer realities – a conceptualisation
2. The search for identity: working therapeutically with adolescents in crisis
3. “Too late for me”: the adolescent mental health crisis in time

Part II
4. Considering crisis and risk in psychoanalytic work with adolescents
5. Meaning of adolescent overdose
6. The multifaceted meanings of a symptom: A psychoanalytic exploration of self-harm in contemporary culture
7. Moving towards a psychonalyitc formulation when assessing the risk of suicide in adolescents in crisis

Part III
8. Reconfiguring Adolescent-Parent Psychotherapy: Empowering relational dynamics to promote adolescent health and growth
9. Reaching for the Unreachable: Working with Parents of Adolescents who struggle to engage
10. Working with schools to support adolescents in crisis
11. Ripples of containment: How CAMHS teams manage anxiety in the midst of adolescent crisis
12. Cries in Crisis: Holding Looked-After Adolescents and their Networks in Mind

Part IV
13. Brief Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Adolescents and their Families in Crisis: a pilot study
14. Playing with fire; or: how do we play when we’re scared?: The nature and function of play in psychotherapy with high-risk adolescents
15. ‘To Dream is to Live’: The therapist’s function for representation in work with at risk adolescents