Treating The Other Third : Vicissitudes of Adolescent Development and Therapy /
H. Spencer Bloch.
- London : Karnac Books, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource (305 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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 con.