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Developmental Ruptures: The psychoanalysis of breakdown and defensive solutions

Developmental Ruptures: The psychoanalysis of breakdown and defensive solutions

Hardcover

Series: New Library of Psychoanalysis

Child PsychologyGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 1032663359
ISBN13: 9781032663357
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 29 2024
Pages: 274
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book questions the diagnostic categories applied to adolescents from a developmental viewpoint, putting forth an alternative perspective for assessment that considers prognostic and risk indicators.

Going beyond the classification of adult psychopathology, Anna Maria Nicolò presents a multidimensional approach to the adolescent mind that explores its complexities through a clinical lens and accompanying theoretical prism. Often, crises in adolescence might well mark the onset of a psychotic process that does not respect phase-specific tasks. Yet in other cases, such developmental ruptures are the opportunity for a positive reorganisation of personality. In this way, adolescence may highlight latent childhood functioning or allow for new integrations. Therefore, accurate diagnosis and early intervention are necessary to enable the developmental reorganisation of both the patient and the family. Drawing on clinical case material, this book provides readers with the practical and theoretical tools to intervene in developmental ruptures.

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