title: [How postmodern youths find their way into life--views on imaginative psychotherapy of adolescents].
abstract: The author describes the course of an adolescent psychotherapy with guided affective imagery (Leuner 1985) using the therapeutic material of a 15 year old female adolescent with a severe depression und automutilative behaviour. She considers this therapeutic method as very useful especially for severely disturbed adolescents, because the method enhances the creativity of the patient and enables him to express traumatizing experiences in a symbolical form thus facilitating their integration.
authors: Renate
authors: R
authors: Sannwald
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003858:Dependency, Psychological; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D005201:Fantasy; D005260:Female; D005608:Free Association; D006801:Humans; D019018:Imagery, Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D007092:Imagination; D007207:Individuation; D008016:Life Change Events; D011057:Politics; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D019962:Reactive Attachment Disorder / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D012652:Self Mutilation / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D012922:Social Change; D013561:Symbolism