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A G Schmukler

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PubMed1999

Detours in adolescent development. Implications for technique.

Dora's six-year analysis began when she was sixteen. In presenting this material, I shall focus on coordinating the technical demands of working analytically during a period of intense developmental change. This affords us an opportunity to examine the adolescent's use of analytic interventions both for work with neurotic conflicts and to facilitate development. A central issue in my work with Dora has been to examine her potential for navigating the tumultuous currents of adolescence while maintaining sufficient neutrality and abstinence so that later in the treatment, as the patient approached young adulthood, the analysis could be conducted in a manner consistent with our usual work with adults.

Child↗
PubMed1999

Use of insight in child analysis.

The role of insight in working with a preadolescent girl, who was engaged in a seven-year analysis, is examined from the perspective of therapeutic action. The patient's use of insight, within the context of a transference neurosis, contributed substantively to changes in the depth of object relations, modulation of affect, return of development to its anticipated pathways, marked reduction of obsessive-compulsive symptomatology, and profound flowering of intellectual development.

Child↗
PubMed1990

Termination in midadolescence.

At the start of the terminal phase, the patient wrestled with the conflict of whether to leave treatment and establish himself as a self-reliant young man or cling to the analyst, who represented, ambivalently, significant protective power. The resolution of the transference neurosis during the termination phase of a six-year analysis in this midadolescent bore a strong resemblance to work with adults.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1990

Special symbols in early female oedipal development: fantasies of folds and spaces, protuberances and concavities.

The authors present three examples, from the observation of pre-latency girls, of the use of anatomic regions for symbolic purposes. In the two cases, the first interdigital fold became the locus for castration anxiety; and in the other, the laryngeal prominence and jugular notch served as the focus for symbolic displacement of psychosexual concerns. The employment of these particular symbols, to the best of the authors' knowledge, has not been reported previously in the literature. The authors conclude by calling for further investigation into the relationship between the processes involved in such symbol-formation and those that occur in neurosogenesis.

Anxiety, Castration↗