ABSTRACT
As we enter the 21st century, we remember Freud’s encounter with late adolescents and young adults in Studies on Hysteria (S. Freud and Breuer, 1895) and with the younger Dora soon after. These early descriptions remain a source for later psychoanalytic therapies with adolescents of all ages. However, the number of adolescents actually treated blossomed only after the Second World War. Where do we stand now concerning our zeal to do formal psychoanalysis and its various derivative dynamic therapies with this age group in this transitional period in our profession at the dawn of the 21St century? So much has happened, especially during the past half-century, to change the meaning of adolescence as we struggle to adapt our treatments apace. We are dealing with two rapidly changing targets—our treatments and our patients.
