Developmental Ruptures

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.

Anna Maria Nicolò, MD, child neuropsychiatrist, Training Analyst and Full Member of the Società Psicoanalitica Italiana (SPI) and International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), expert in child and adolescent psychoanalysis. Past President of the SPI. President of the International Association of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis (IACFP). She is a member of the Forum for Adolescence of the European Psychoanalytical Federation (FEP) Committee, of which she was Chair. Director of the Journal Interazioni.

Preface to the English edition Introduction PART 1 The adolescent and developmental ruptures 1 The adolescent mind 2 The problem of assessment in adolescence 3 Breakdown and developmental ruptures 4 The negated, repudiated, persecutory body 5 Sensoriality and developmental ruptures 6 Fear of breakdown and beyond 7 Developmental ruptures: A transformative pathway 8 Pathological transpersonal links and adolescent breakdown PART 2 The defence against developmental breakdown 9 Perverse solutions and perversion 10 Daydreams and their evolutions 11 Martina: Alienation in the other 12 Violence as a defence against breakdown 13 Delusion, secrets and reciprocity 14 The transgender enigma 15 Self-harm and cutting