Citation

Marty F. Am. J. Psychoanal. 2002; 62(3): 255-272.

Affiliation

University of Rouen, Paris, France. fmarty@cybercable.fr

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis, Publisher Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

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PMID

12357682

Abstract

For certain adolescents, the eruption of puberty sometimes carries the risk of a break in their psychic life: a break in their impression of continuity in existence, in the investment of their inner world, and in their relation to external objects. When these adolescents are unable to tolerate the discontinuity that accompanies the experience of adolescence, this can lead to pathologies of compulsive breaking away, depression, violence, or psychosis. Linking work, on the contrary, enables adolescence to become a transforming process on the psychic level and contributes to the dynamic character of the therapeutic process.

Language: en