Mainstream analysts working in the Jungian tradition have largely neglected adolescents. Sidoli and Bovensiepen remedy that omission, showing how and why psychological and physical abuse suffered by young children erupts in violent and destructive behavior against self and others. Using clinical material, they establish the link between archetypal imagery, disturbed behavior, and instinctual drive.
Drawing from all schools of analytical psychology, the authors along with several associates, focus mainly on severe neurotic disturbances and behavioral problems occurring in adolescence. Because most disturbances originate in the body, the contributors concentrate on self-destructive behavior: suicide, self-mutilation, and other self-damaging acts. Case histories illustrate the relationship between the analyst and the adolescent patient as it develops in consultation. Interweaving concepts of Jung, Freud, and others makes this volume a unique contribution to contemporary psychoanalysis. It will be of sustained interest to psychoanalysts, child psychotherapists, social workers, psychiatrists, and psychologists.
