Analytic Engagements with Adolescents

In Analytic Engagements with Adolescents, Mary T. Brady takes on the intensity and 'heat' of adolescent psychoanalytic treatment.She is a guide in the distinctive challenges of work with adolescents. The intensity of this work manifests in various ways; the heightened importance of body issues and related transference and countertransference, the subversiveness of risk-taking behaviour and the rejection and rebellion against authority, and the effects of parental response and family dynamics.

Mary T. Brady is a psychoanalyst in private practice in San Francisco. She is on the Faculty of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and author of The Body in Adolescence: Psychic Isolation and Physical Symptoms (Routledge: 2016).

Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction - hot topics: analytic engagements with adolescents 1 Braving the erotic field in the treatment of adolescents 2 "Sometimes we are prejudiced against ourselves": internalized and external homophobia in the treatment of an adolescent boy 3 'Sleeping Beauties': succession problems of adolescence 4 Afflictions related to 'ideals' of masculinity: gremlins within 5 Subversiveness in adolescence 6 'Thinking under fire': Bionian concepts in the treatment of adolescents and children 7 Parent work in adolescent analysis: an application of Bion's group theory