Developmental Ruptures The Psychoanalysis of Breakdown and Defensive Solutions (The New Library of Psychoanalysis Series)

Cover
Endorsements
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface to the English edition
	Threads of various colours weave the canvas
	Conclusions
	References
Introduction
	The roots of this work
	Reflections in retrospect
	In conclusion
	Note
	References
Part 1: The adolescent and developmental ruptures
1: The adolescent mind
	What challenges must the adolescent face?
	The irruption of the sexed body and sensoriality
	Developmental mourning
	Integrating and directing aggression
	Toward the experience of sexuality
	Adolescence today
	References
2: The problem of assessment in adolescence
	Introduction
	Diagnostic specificity in adolescence
	Diagnosis as a tool to define setting
	Comment
	The assessment of psychotic onset in adolescence
	Complexity of diagnosis
	References
3: Breakdown and developmental ruptures
	Specificity in adolescence
	When breakdown explodes
	The psychotic onset as organisation of traumatic links
	Gradiva and the uncanny
	Pseudo-delusional fantasies and risk of decompensation
	Psychotic onset
	Comment
	Psychotic solution or perverse solution: a dilemma in the construction of identity
	Comment
	Notes
	References
4: The negated, repudiated, persecutory body
	Foreword
	Body and adolescence
	The body and the other
	The symbolic body
	Acting on the body, acting with the body
	The repudiated and persecutory body
	The disavowed body
	Notes
	References
5: Sensoriality and developmental ruptures
	Sensoriality and adolescence
	Comment
	Giovanni\'s dream
	Comment
	An integrative possibility
	Note
	References
6: Fear of breakdown and beyond
	Comment
	What is breakdown
	The extraordinary intuition
	The future of our patients
	Note
	References
7: Developmental ruptures: A transformative pathway
	Gaia
	The pain of growing up
	Comment
	Trying not to think
	Comment
	Sexual initiation
	Comment
	Comment
	The first summer break
	The real parents and their attacks
	Comment
	The story continues
	Comment
	The internal parents
	Comment
	The Truman Show: Not living in reality
	Comment
	After the second year
	Comment
	Third year
	Accepting to be treated
	Comment
	References
8: Pathological transpersonal links and adolescent breakdown
	The perspective from which to look at the family
	The adolescent and the family in co-evolution
	The psychotic functioning family: some history
	Transpersonal pathological links
	The psychotic patient\'s family
	The case of Regina
	How can such links be described?
	An example from a film
	Notes
	References
Part 2: The defence against developmental breakdown
9: Perverse solutions and perversion
	Defensive solutions
	Perverse modalities to exist
	A clinical case
	Comment
	Boredom as avoidance of perversion
	Luigi: what was underneath that boredom?
	Comment
	Conclusions
	Notes
	References
10: Daydreams and their evolutions
	The multiple functions of daydreams
	Slipping into psychosis?
	Daydream and delusion
	Toward a delusional transformation
	Conclusions
	Notes
	References
11: Martina: Alienation in the other
	Martina: compensating with the other
	Comment
	Some reflections starting from Searles and Aulagnier
	Conclusions
	References
12: Violence as a defence against breakdown
	Introduction
	Violence and aggression
	Violence as a defence against breakdown
	A clinical case
	Aggression as a defence against depression
	Towards the possibility of thinking: the alternative to depressive breakdown
	Conclusions
	Note
	References
13: Delusion, secrets and reciprocity
	The case of Alfredo
	Comment
	Clinical fragment
	Secrets and reciprocity
	Secrets and communication
	Delusion and reciprocity
	Conclusions in retrospect
	Notes
	References
14: The transgender enigma
	Some reflections on gender identity
	The importance of accurate diagnosis
	From clinical practice
	Carolina: avoiding psychotic risk
	Comment
	The transgender solution
	Comment
	Conclusions
	Notes
	References
15: Self-harm and cutting
	The skin and its meanings
	The skin and self-aggression
	Comment
	Laura
	Comment
	The case continues and grows richer
	Unravelling the conflict
	Comment
	Notes
	References
	Sources