Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Puberty and Adolescence by Ger... - 9780367368524

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Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Puberty and AdolescenceThe Inner Worlds of Teenagers and their Parents\nAuthor(s): Gertraud Diem-Wille\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367368524, 978-0367368524\nSynopsis\nPuberty is a time of tumultuous transition from childhood to adulthood activated by rapid physical changes, hormonal development and explosive activity of neurons. This book explores puberty through the parent-teenager relationship, as a \""normal state of crisis\"", lasting several years and with the teenager oscillating between childlike tendencies and their desire to become an adult.\n\nThe more parents succeed in recognizing and experiencing these new challenges as an integral, ineluctable emotional transformative process, the more they can allow their children to become independent. In addition, parents who can also see this crisis as a chance for their own further development will be ultimately enriched by th.