Puberty 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, with the teenager oscillating between childlike tendencies and their desire to become an adult. The more parents succeed in recognising and experiencing these new challenges as an integral, ineluctable emotional transformative process, the more they can allow their children to become independent.
Key Features
- Insights into the parent-teenager relationship during puberty.
- Focus on the emotional transformative process of adolescence.
- Unique clinical observations from international settings.
- Emphasis on the role of the body in self-awareness and identity crises.
Additional Information
Parents who can also see this crisis as a chance for their own further development will be ultimately enriched by this painful process. They can face up to their own aging as they take leave of youth with its myriad possibilities, accepting and working through a newfound rivalry with their sexually mature children, thus experiencing a process of maturity, which in turn can set an example for their children. This book will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, parents and carers, as well as all those interacting with adolescents in self, family, and society.
