Citation

Kennedy R. Int. J. Psychoanal. 1990; 71(2): 309-319.

Affiliation

Cassel Hospital, Richmond, Surrey.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, Institute of Psychoanalysis, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2365550

Abstract

The paper focuses on a particularly severe kind of breakdown in communication that can arise in the psychoanalysis of ill adolescents who have experienced a real breakdown in functioning, such as a severe suicide attempt or one or more psychotic breakdowns. Clinical material is presented from the analysis of a suicidal and self-mutilating adolescent as an illustration of the theme. Included is a discussion of different types of breakdown in communication.

Language: en