Adolescents in Crisis: A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Challenges of Adolescence

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Emanuela Quagliata Alessandra Marsoni

Adolescents in Crisis

A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Challenges of Adolescence

Emanuela Quagliata, Alessandra Marsoni

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Routledge
14 October 2025

Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology); Child & developmental psychology; Abnormal psychology; Psychotherapy; Eating disorders & therapy

Series: 101 Kids

Adolescents in Crisis offers a psychoanalytic perspective on the difficulties that can arise when young people renegotiate their relationship with the world and their own bodies as they experience puberty.

This edited collection explores the tension adolescents often experience between their wish to develop and grow up, alongside the concurrent urge to regress towards a pre- pubescent way of relating to their own self and others. Covering the period from pre- teen years to the dawn of adulthood, and including clinical vignettes throughout, the contributors look at issues such as isolation, self- harm, eating disorders, gender identity and delinquent behaviors. These are often used as defense strategies against feelings of powerlessness and inadequacy that puberty can trigger. Each chapter draws on traditional and contemporary psychoanalytic thought to help the reader understand these anxieties and provide guidance on how the therapist, parent and adolescent can work through them together, allowing the young person to explore new ways of managing their anxieties.

Part of the 101 Kids books series, this book is an invaluable resource for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists working with young people, as well as teachers, social workers and parents dealing with adolescents in difficulty.

Edited by: Emanuela Quagliata, Alessandra Marsoni
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032397498
ISBN 10: 1032397497
Series: 101 Kids
Pages: 156
Publication Date: 14 October 2025
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Introductions 1. Identity Formation in Adolescence 2. The devil and the deep blue sea: dyadic narcissism and the problem of individuation 3. Preadolescence, the silence of words and the words of the body 4. Growing up in digital times and the adolescent’s experience of being in-a-body 5. Leaving the shallow ends for deep water: collaborative work with parents and adolescents 6. Work with parents of adolescent patients 7. Reflections on eating disorders in children and adolescents 8. Assessing delinquency in adolescence 9. Risk of self-harm and suicide in adolescence 10. On developmental breakdown: A conversation with Egle Laufer Glossary

Emanuela Quagliata is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst working in private practice in Rome, Italy. She teaches at the Tavistock- model trainings in Florence and at the Institute of Psychoanalysis in Rome, she is Chair for Europe of the IPA Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis. Emanuela is the author of Becoming Parents and Overcoming Obstacles (2013) and, with Margaret Rustin, she is the editor of Assessment in Child Psychotherapy (2000). Alessandra Marsoni is a London based Adolescent and Adult Psychotherapist working in private practice with children, adolescents, parents and adult patients. She worked in the Adolescent Department at the Tavistock Clinic in London where until recently she ran the Adolescent Workshop for the Child Psychotherapy training.