Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Puberty and Adolescence : The Inner Worlds of Teenagers and their Parents (Paperback)

Introduction I. The Body Ego 1.1 The Body as an Object of Observation 1.2 The Body as a Medium of Protest II. Psychosexual Development in Puberty 2.1 The Mother-Baby Pair as Model for Romantic Love 2.2 Flaming up of Oedipal Desires 2.3 Daydreams with Oedipal Themes 2.4 Masturbation and Masturbation Fantasies 2.5 Working Through Themes from Early Childhood and Puberty in Art 2.6 Adolescents in Therapy III. Development of Feeling 3.1 Problems for Parents of Children Growing into Puberty 3.2 Effects on the Parental Psyche IV. Development of Thinking 4.1 The Capacity for Abstract Thought According to Piaget V. The Search for Self?Identity VI. Lost by the Wayside?Overstepping Limits 6.1 Violent Adolescents: Violence as Fascination and Denial 6.2 Violence as a Direct Way to Paradise ? the Fascination of the Jihad 6.3 The Problems of Teenage Pregnancy 6.4 Psychic Breakdown in Adolescence 6.5 Thoughts of Suicide?Suicide Attempts VII. Epilogue