Some issues affecting termination. The treatment of a high-risk adolescent.
This paper addresses some of the difficulties of termination in the psychoanalytic psychotherapy of a deprived, high-risk adolescent girl, who had two previous treatments. Some commonly referred to issues are explored: termination and the developmental process of adolescence; the relationship between termination, mourning, and internalization; the need for the resolution of the transference and careful monitoring of the countertransference; the importance of the transference resolution of the oedipus complex and related issues concerning preoedipal development and identification; and the consolidation of ego strength.
Parsons
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Anna Freud Centre, London.
D000293:Adolescent; D016241:Child of Impaired Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D003858:Dependency, Psychological; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007207:Individuation; D008016:Life Change Events; D010553:Personality Development; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D012307:Risk Factors