Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Adolescents: College student development and treatment
About this ebook
Drawing on existentialism, cultural psychology and relational and object relations theories in psychoanalysis, this book offers a perspective that is sensitive to both clinical concerns and the broader context of college counseling and working with adolescents. Particular attention is paid to the emergence of adolescent identities through a relationship with "otherness," and several considerations are explored as a result. These include the emergence and reconciliation of destructive feelings, suicidal phenomenology and the effects of trauma.
By taking a fresh look at clinical developmental theories as they affect adolescents and young adults, Rosenbaum and Webb provide a view of college-student development that is theoretically rich and clinically applicable in a way that warrants renewed appreciation and practice among counselors, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts working with college-age clients.
About the author
Philip J. Rosenbaum is a clinical psychologist, supervising psychoanalyst and the Director of Counseling and Psychological Services at Haverford College. He is the editor of the book Making Our Ideas Clear: Pragmatism and Psychoanalysis, and an emeriti editor of the Journal of College Student Psychotherapy. He is in private practice in Philadelphia. His website is www.philiprosenbaumphd.com.
Richard E. Webb is a clinical psychologist in a private practice in Lansdale, PA (USA). He was the Director of Counseling and Psychological Services at Haverford College for 32 years. He has published in a variety of journals including the Journal of Constructivist Psychology, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Theory & Psychology and Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy.
