title: A severe form of breakdown in communication in the psychoanalysis of an ill adolescent.
abstract: The paper focuses on a particularly severe kind of breakdown in communication that can arise in the psychoanalysis of ill adolescents who have experienced a real breakdown in functioning, such as a severe suicide attempt or one or more psychotic breakdowns. Clinical material is presented from the analysis of a suicidal and self-mutilating adolescent as an illustration of the theme. Included is a discussion of different types of breakdown in communication.
authors.affiliation: Cassel Hospital, Richmond, Surrey.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kennedy
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003142:Communication; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000523:psychology*; D014167:Transference, Psychology