Abstract
An integrated model of object relations family therapy and a self psychology-oriented individual therapy is presented in the form of a case study of an adolescent. The therapy strives to create and negotiate a balance between deconstructing the family's defensive delineations of the adolescent and helping him to form new building blocks of self-representation. The integrated model both highlights and adeptly addresses the unavoidable adolescent issue of conflicted loyalty between self and family as reflected in the adolescent's internal and external psychological world.
PMID: 12723132 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
| Original language | American English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 203-217 |
| Journal | Psychoanalytic Study of the Child |
| Volume | 57 |
| State | Published - 2002 |