Facing It Out

Based on the wealth of experience gathered in the forty years of the life of the Adolescent Department at the Clinic, this covers a full range of clinical work with some of the most difficult areas of adolescence, but it also gives a conceptual framework of normal adolescence and traces the difficulties that arise when this goes wrong. Facin

Anderson, Robin

Series Editors' Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The Intensity of Adolescence in Small Families -- 'How Does It Work Here, Do We Just Talk?' -- Psychotherapy with Learning Disabled Adolescents -- Confrontation, Appeasement or Communication? -- Suicidal Behaviour and Its Meaning in Adolescence -- Reflections on Some Particular Dynamics of Eating Disorders -- The Fear of Becoming a Man -- 'Is Anyone There?' -- The Scapegoat -- The Heat of the Moment -- Play, Work and Identity