ABSTRACT
Traumatized adolescents generally engage with us more through enactments than through words. These enactments take many forms but seem basically intended to express unconsciously, through action, dissociated aspects of self- and object representations (Davies and Frawley, 1994). In this chapter I discuss the meaning and evolution of various enactments by adolescent patients that allowed their traumatic past experiences to emerge. Let us take Carmen first.
