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Suicidal splinters: breackup and recovery within the structure of experience in adolescent crises

10 April 2012/in Nadia Fina, Reflections on the adolescent group with particular reference to trauma and accidents/by @dmin

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This paper addresses problems related to the risk of suicide in adolescence which represents an extreme experience to recover psychological functions that precede emotional and experiential development. Therapeutic group work, the elective setting for these cases, fosters processes of identification and subsequent individual de-identification. Subjectivation is a painful pursuit for the adolescent, and it is often considered as an experience that bears the marks of shame and humiliation due to the difficulties the adolescent encounters, which he or she tends to experience as extreme Read more

Trauma “not responded to” and the prelogical nature of the accident in adolescence

10 April 2012/in Reflections on the adolescent group with particular reference to trauma and accidents, Sabrina Di Cioccio/by @dmin

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The prelogical nature of the accident in adolescence talks about mind’s crushing when the time of a second birth implies the return of that automatic and primitive anguish when faced with ineluctable biological propelling forces of the body. This anguish is what the adolescent is not able to historicize in the inevitableness and at the same time, in the way entirely fortuitous of the accident happening, because the repetition of the traumatic situation is vital for his survival. The absence of the Other’s answer to the traumatic experience of the birth, introduces the tragic dimension that lives the reoccurrence of self- harmful behaviours. The tragic dimension of trauma is related with shame, and it subjugates adolescent to repeat it unless or until, an Other can at last respond and not confirm that trauma as the only way he is awarded to exist.

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