Main description:

- first edition continues to sell about 20 copies every month, despite being published over 20 years ago - features extensive clinical material

Contents:

Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1 Theoretical perspectives on adolescence 1. Psychoanalytic approaches 2. Developmental analytical psychology Part 2 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 3 Jung and adolescence: a new synthesis 6. The individuation tasks of adolescence 7. Persona and shadow in adolescence 8. The development of conscience Part 4 Adolescent psychotherapy: shifting the paradigm 9. Countertransference in the treatment of adolescence 10. Prohibition and inhibition: clinical considerations 11. Prohibition and inhibition: culutral dimensions Bibliography