A psychoanalytical approach to integrating family and individual therapy in the treatment of adolescents. A case study.
An integrated model of object relations family therapy and a self psychology-oriented individual therapy is presented in the form of a case study of an adolescent. The therapy strives to create and negotiate a balance between deconstructing the family's defensive delineations of the adolescent and helping him to form new building blocks of self-representation. The integrated model both highlights and adeptly addresses the unavoidable adolescent issue of conflicted loyalty between self and family as reflected in the adolescent's internal and external psychological world.
Becker
Mitchel
M
Shalgi
Boaz
B
D000293:Adolescent; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009769:Object Attachment; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*