The body in adolescence : psychic isolation and physical symptoms /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brady, Mary T., 1959- (Author)
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • "Unjoined persons" : psychic isolation in adolescence and its relation to bodily symptoms
  • Invisibility and insubstantiality in an anorexic adolescent : phenomenology and dynamics
  • Cutting the silence : initial, impulsive self-cutting in adolescence
  • Substance abuse in an adolescent boy : waking the object
  • "High up on bar stools" : manic defenses and an oblivious object in a late adolescent
  • Sexuality unreceived and adolescent suicide
  • "Pro-ana" web sites through an adolescent development lens.