The Adolescent Psyche

Jungian and Winnicottian Perspectives

Richard Frankel

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Routledge
30 June 2023

Age groups: adolescents; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology); Analytical & Jungian psychology; Child & developmental psychology

Series: Routledge Mental Health Classic Editions

In the classic edition of this outstanding book, originally published in 1998, Richard Frankel explores adolescence as a crucial, unique, and turbulent period of human development. He provides guidance for clinicians working with young people as they undergo significant transformations in the way they think, act, feel, and perceive the world.

The book addresses how the disruptions manifest in adolescent behavior are upsetting and often incomprehensible to the adults surrounding them. It seeks to revision the traumas, extreme fantasies, testing of limits, etc., so endemic to this period of life through the lens of the urge toward self-realization. This allows for new and creative ways of working with the intensely confusing, and often extreme, countertransference feelings that arise in our encounter with adolescents. It offers ways of reflecting upon the vicissitudes of our own experience of being an adolescent that helps to unlock the typical impasses that occur in the stand-off between adult and adolescent ways of seeing the world. Through engagement with the work of Jung, Hillman, and Winnicott, Frankel offers a critique of the traditional psychoanalytic understanding of adolescence as a recapitulation of childhood, thus making a claim for adolescence as a discrete developmental period with its own originary dynamics. In this light, he explores such topics as individuation, persona, shadow, bodily, idealistic and ideational awakenings, as well as the effects of culture on development.

Featuring numerous clinical case studies and clear theoretical formulations, this classic edition is important reading for psychotherapists, analysts, parents, educators, and anyone working with adolescents. This classic edition also includes also includes a new, extended introduction by the author that examines what effects the digital revolution is having on the contemporary experience of being an adolescent. Looking back on this work nearly 25 years since its publication, Frankel contends that the core themes of adolescence addressed in this book offer a compelling framework for comprehending both the positive and negative impacts of the digital on adolescent life.

By: Richard Frankel
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 580g
ISBN: 9781032114347
ISBN 10: 1032114347
Series: Routledge Mental Health Classic Editions
Pages: 210
Publication Date: 30 June 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword by Mary Watkins Acknowledgements Introduction to the Classic Edition Introduciton Part I Theoretical perspectives on adolescence 1. Psychoanalytic approaches 2. Developmental analytical psychology PartII Adolescence, initiation, and the dying process 3. The archetype of initiation 4. Life and death imagery in adolescence 5. Bodily, idealistic, and ideational awakenings Part III Jung and adolescence: A new synthesis 6. The individuation tasks of adolescence 7. Persona and shadow in adolescence 8. The development of conscience Part IV Adolescent psychotherapy: A new paradigm 9. Countertransference in the work with adolescents 10. Prohibition and inhibition: clinical issues 11. Prohibition and inhibition: culutral issues Epiloge Bibliography

Richard Frankel, Ph.D., is a faculty member and supervisor at The Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is a teaching associate and supervisor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Along with the philosopher, Victor J. Krebs, he is the author of Human Virtuality and Digital Life: Philosophical and Psychoanalytic Investigations (Routledge, 2022).

Reviews for The Adolescent Psyche: Jungian and Winnicottian Perspectives

Richard Frankel helps the reader explore the archetypal dynamics particular to adolescence. Through clinical vignette he is able to tutor us in the kind of insight and therapeutic presence that can make a real difference to the adolescents we work with Mary Watkins, Pacifica Graduate Institute, USA. The Adolescent Pscyhe is a welcome addition to contemporary Jungian literature. Frankel weaves concepts from Jung, Hillman, Winnicott and others to give us important new understandings and ways of viewing and working with adolescents. I highly recommend this book to practitioners, theorists and researcheers alike John Allan, Jungian analyst and author of Inscapes of the Child's World.