ABSTRACT

This book presents two thoughtful and long clinical case presentations of adolescents with serious psychiatric problems and some social-psychiatric meditations on homosexuality, divorce, and day care. It explores the challenges confronting the therapist in maintaining a workable therapeutic frame.

part I|125 pages

Treating the Other Third

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

chapter One|73 pages

Treating severe psychopathology*

chapter Two|41 pages

Bulimia in adolescents

part II|49 pages

Vicissitudes in Development: Understanding Some Outliers

chapter Three|34 pages

Revisiting homosexuality: one possible developmental pathway

(Dilemmas at the interface of psychiatry and politics)

chapter Four|13 pages

The relationship between suicide and homicide

(Dilemmas at the interface of psychiatry and the law)

chapter |13 pages

Epilogue