Out of the Dark The Psychoanalysis of an Adolescent Boy
Title:
Out of the Dark The Psychoanalysis of an Adolescent Boy
Author:
Orfanos, Spyros D.
Appeared in:
Journal of infant, child, and adolescent psychotherapy
Paging:
Volume 6 (2007) nr. 1 pages 34-45
Year:
2007-07-31
Contents:
The five-year analytic treatment of a troubled and troubling adolescent boy is described. Seth was a depressed and physically aggressive boy with perceptual learning disabilities. The analyst was a middle-aged man with an active style of therapy and a personal history that overlapped with some of Seth's issues. Working within a relational tradition (Altman et al., 2002; Santostefano, 2004), detailed process notes bring to the foreground Seth's demonizing introjections, the transference-countertransference matrix, enactments, mutuality, and intersubjective moments. The actual and embodied meanings of these occurrences is examined and contextualized.
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