title: Adolescence: the crossroads of violence.
abstract: We sought to distinguish between aggressivity and true violence. Violence is a vital force, a life instinct, or, more particularly, a survival instinct. Violence is neither good nor bad. Everything depends on the way in which this essential instinct is used in the succession of crises that mark the affective development of each and every one of us, and, in particular, during the crisis of adolescence. The measure of prevention could be based on the elements of pure violence and not on established aggressivity. The primary prevention of the deviations toward natural violence fits into the framework of the education for health. That is only possible if we today prepare future parents and educators of the children of tomorrow.
authors.affiliation: Universite Lyon, France.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bergeret
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D011322:Primary Prevention; D014754:Violence