Based on the wealth of experience gathered in the forty-year history of the Tavistock Clinic's Adolescent Department, Facing It Out offers both clinical and theoretical perspectives in examining a range of difficult areas in adolescent development, including gender identity issues, eating disorders, learning disabilities, trauma from sexual abuse, suicidal behavior, and psychosis. The book also provides a conceptual framework of normal adolescence and traces the difficulties that arise when this goes wrong. The editors have brought together a distillation of the work of many distinguished clinicians, giving an important insight into the style and theoretical basis of one of the most outstanding adolescent clinical departments today.
Contributors: Robin Anderson, Jonathan Bradley, Steve Briggs, Anna Dartington, Helene Dubinsky, Richard Graham, Lynda Miller, Elizabeth Oliver-Bellasis, Paul Upson, Margot Waddell, and Gianna Williams.
| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgements | ||
| Foreword | ||
| Contributors | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | The Intensity of Adolescence in Small Families | 7 |
| 2 | 'How Does It Work Here, Do We Just Talk?': Therapeutic Work with Young People Who Have Been Sexually Abused | 23 |
| 3 | Psychotherapy with Learning Disabled Adolescents | 37 |
| 4 | Confrontation, Appeasement or Communication | 53 |
| 5 | Suicidal Behaviour and its Meaning in Adolescence | 65 |
| 6 | Reflections on Some Particular Dynamics of Eating Disorders | 79 |
| 7 | The Fear of Becoming a Man: a Study of Two Adolescents | 99 |
| 8 | 'Is Anyone There?': the Work of the Young People's Counselling Service | 113 |
| 9 | The Scapegoat | 127 |
| 10 | The Heat of the Moment: Psychoanalytic Work with Families | 143 |
| 11 | Play, Work and Identity: Taking Up One's Place in the Adult World | 159 |
| Index | 173 |
Overview
Based on the wealth of experience gathered in the forty-year history of the Tavistock Clinic's Adolescent Department, Facing It Out offers both clinical and theoretical perspectives in examining a range of difficult areas in adolescent development, including gender identity issues, eating disorders, learning disabilities, trauma from sexual abuse, suicidal behavior, and psychosis. The book also provides a conceptual framework of normal adolescence and traces the difficulties that arise when this goes wrong. The ...