Adolescent Psychiatry, V. 23

Volume 23 of The Annals reflects the continuing commitment of the ASAP to psychodynamic adolescent psychiatry. Of equal significance, it brings this commitment to bear on the social, educational, and therapeutic challenges that confront the field

Aaron H. Esman, M.D., is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry (Emeritus), Cornell University Medical College, and Faculty, New York Psychoanalytic Institute. He is editor of Psychology of Adolescence: Essential Readings and Psychiatric Treatment of Adolescents and author of Adolescence and Culture. He maintains a private practice of psychiatry with adults, adolescents, and children.

Esman, In Memoriam: Derek Miller, M.D. Weintrob,Foreword. Part I: Developmental Considerations.Marohn, A Reexamination of Peter Blos's Concept of Prolonged Adolescence. Tyson, Developmental Roots of Adolescent Disturbance. Katz, The Role of Family Interactions in Adolescent Depression: A Review of Research Findings. Part II: Psychopathological Issues in Adolescence.Jaffe, Adolescent Substance Abuse: Assessment and Treatment. Schmidt, Lay, Esser, & Ihle, Psychosomatic and Depressive Symptoms from Age Eight to Age Eighteen. Part III: Psychotherapeutic Issues in Adolescence.Katz, Establishing the Therapeutic Alliance. Anthony, Treatment of a Narcissistically Disordered Adolescent: Some Theoretical and Therapeutic Considerations. Perl, Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Success: Self-Destructive Behavior as an Expression of Autonomy in Young Women. Part IV: School-Based and Preventative Programs.Renshaw, Adolescent Sex and AIDS. Mauk, Sharpnack, A Light Unto the Darkness: The Psychoeducational Imperative of School-Based Suicide Postvention. Pearson, Jennings, & Norcross, A Program of Comprehensive School-Based Mental Health Services in a Large Urban Public School District: The Dallas Model. Gottlieb, The Current Crisis in Psychotherapy at Boarding Schools: Protecting the Interests of the Child and of the School.