A Psychoanalytic View

Adolescence has a specific and essential contribution to make to psychological life; the psychic disruptions of this period therefore need to be understood differently from those of childhood and adulthood. In this insightful book, Moses and Eglé Laufer offer both theoretical material and case histories in support of their contention that the severely disturbed adolescent can be assessed and treated psychoanalytically and that the psychopathology has its source in conflicts over the sexually mature body.