The Adolescent Psyche

In the classic edition of this outstanding book, originally published in 1998, Richard Frankel explores adolescence as a crucial, unique, and turbulent period of human development.

Richard Frankel, Ph.D., is a faculty member and supervisor at The Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is a teaching associate and supervisor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Along with the philosopher, Victor J. Krebs, he is the author of Human Virtuality and Digital Life: Philosophical and Psychoanalytic Investigations (Routledge, 2022).

Foreword by Mary Watkins Acknowledgements Introduction to the Classic Edition Introduciton Part I Theoretical perspectives on adolescence 1. Psychoanalytic approaches 2. Developmental analytical psychology PartII Adolescence, initiation, and the dying process 3. The archetype of initiation 4. Life and death imagery in adolescence 5. Bodily, idealistic, and ideational awakenings Part III Jung and adolescence: A new synthesis 6. The individuation tasks of adolescence 7. Persona and shadow in adolescence 8. The development of conscience Part IV Adolescent psychotherapy: A new paradigm 9. Countertransference in the work with adolescents 10. Prohibition and inhibition: clinical issues 11. Prohibition and inhibition: culutral issues Epiloge Bibliography