Analytic Engagements with Adolescents: Sex, Gender, and Subversion
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : March 2018
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 136
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Category 2 :
Child and Adolescent Studies - Catalogue No : 93370
- ISBN 13 : 9780815383239
- ISBN 10 : 0815383231
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In Analytic Engagements with Adolescents, Mary T. Brady takes on the intensity and heat of adolescent psychoanalytic treatment.She is a guide in the distinctive challenges of work with adolescents. The intensity of this work manifests in various ways; the heightened importance of body issues and related transference and countertransference, the subversiveness of risk-taking behaviour and the rejection and rebellion against authority, and the effects of parental response and family dynamics.  Adolescence is a period when things happen: first wet dreams, first menstruation, first romance. Nascent sexuality comes directly into the field as the adolescent is confronted with new bodily experiences. Subversiveness is integral to the adolescent's development; parents (and analysts) are overthrown as the adolescent questions the status quo and experiments with new capacities and desires. Drawn into the adolescent's turbulence, Bion's concept of thinking under fire is shown to be vital to the analyst's engagement. Bion's group theory here informs Brady's immediate experience of the interaction of individual and family dynamics.  The voices of Brady's adolescent patients and her dynamic involvement with them will help the clinician to be open to the hot moments of their analytic work. Drawing on Bion's thinking and her own extensive experience with adolescents, Brady offers an essential guide to the difficulties and challenges encountered when working with this patient group. She provides practical suggestions for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists working in this area.
About the Author(s)
Dr. Mary T. Brady, is an adult and child psychoanalyst in San Francisco, USA. On the Faculties of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, she is recipient of the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Roughton Award for her writing. She is editor of Braving the Erotic Field in the Treatment of Children and Adolescents (2022), and author of Analytic Engagements with Adolescents (2018) and The Body in Adolescence (2015). She is Co-Chair for the Committee on Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis (COCAP) of the IPA and has co-led a Psychoanalysis and Film group for a decade.
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