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Adolescent Psychiatry

Editor-in-Chief

ISSN (Print): 2210-6766
ISSN (Online): 2210-6774

Trauma, Adolescent Transformation, and Parenthood

Author(s): Peter Brundl

Volume 2, Issue 1, 2012

Page: [32 - 35] Pages: 4

DOI: 10.2174/2210676611202010032

Price: $65

Abstract

The developmental task to accept ones inborn mortality and thereby to propel ones procreative strivings cannot be mastered before adolescence when the transforming person is crossing the border between childhood and adulthood. The difficulties to integrate infanticidal/destructive strivings into life supporting needs in adolescence as a precondition for well caring parenthood often appear to be due to defenses against remembering traumatic experiences. These developmental concepts will be exemplified by vignettes from the psychoanalytic psychotherapy of an emerging young adult woman and mother of a most difficult baby.

Keywords: Adolescent, parenthood, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, emerging adulthood


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