Treating The Other Third : Vicissitudes of Adolescent Development and Therapy / H. Spencer Bloch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spencer Bloch, H., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental illness--Treatment.

Mental illness.

Mental illness--Diagnosis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Taylor and Francis, 2018.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"As "evidence-based research" on psychodynamic psychotherapy for children and adolescents gains momentum, it seems to be following adult psychiatry in moving increasingly toward biomedical/genetic efforts to understand and treat psychopathology. In this process, the clinical developmental model, which traces development and much psychopathology to the interaction between children's endowment and environment, is being brushed aside in favor of genetic, biochemical and epidemiological efforts despite modest gains of clinical relevance to date from those approaches. As such, single case study continues to have an important place in identifying increasingly accurate clinical paradigms for understanding the development of psychopathology, which in turn leads toward developing more successful therapy. To this end, Treating the Other Third refers to that sizable minority of adolescent patients who fail to respond or refuse psychotropic medication."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; PROLOGUE; PART I TREATING THE OTHER THIRD; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE Treating severe psychopathology; CHAPTER TWO Bulimia in adolescents; PART II VICISSITUDES IN DEVELOPMENT: UNDERSTANDING SOME OUTLIERS; CHAPTER THREE Revisiting homosexuality: one possible developmental pathway; CHAPTER FOUR The relationship between suicide and homicide; PART III DILEMMAS AT THE INTERFACE OF INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY

CHAPTER FIVE The impact on civilization of its malcontents, or normalizing psychopathology and pathologizing normalcy in present-day America: an unfortunate natural outcome of developmental needsEPILOGUE; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 20, 2015).

ISBN:

0-429-92336-8

0-367-32942-5

0-429-90913-6

0-429-48436-4

1-78241-355-3

9780429484360

OCLC:

905985575