title: Adventure in the outdoors. Its importance in the development of an adolescent boy.
abstract: This exploration of how the analyst works uses a 15-year-old boy's description of an adventure in the outdoors as the starting point for a sequence of associations which led first to a passage from a Wordsworth poem and then to memories from the analyst's own childhood. The related themes of rite of passage and adolescent mourning are elaborated.
authors: Department of Child Psychiatry, Cambridge Hospital.
authors: A M
authors: AM
authors: Harrison
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010553:Personality Development; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D011606:Psychosexual Development; D012865:Skiing