Borderline functioning in adolescence: Unthinkable depression… between syncope of the being and mourning of the self
Corcos, Maurice
Borderline functioning in adolescence: Unthinkable depression… between syncope of the being and mourning of the self - 2023.
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Any clinical evaluation of a depressive problem is based on the study of externalized bodily and behavioral symptoms (anorexia, slowing down, acting out, addiction, etc.) but also and above all on the appreciation of structural characteristics of the personality. All the more so when it comes to the specific case of patients with borderline functioning and even borderline addictive behavior. The potential to reorganize in a particular way the relation to others can modulate significantly and durably the functioning of the subject. We demonstrate here the importance of the pivotal age of adolescence, an age of possibilities and changes. We study a depressive symptom in reference to the moment when it occurs, to the psychopathological state in which it is integrated. It is by privileging the dynamic aspect of the psychic structure that the therapist’s action, assisting the subject’s narrativity, allows the latter to express their quest for meaning through the work of elaboration.
Borderline functioning in adolescence: Unthinkable depression… between syncope of the being and mourning of the self - 2023.
30
Any clinical evaluation of a depressive problem is based on the study of externalized bodily and behavioral symptoms (anorexia, slowing down, acting out, addiction, etc.) but also and above all on the appreciation of structural characteristics of the personality. All the more so when it comes to the specific case of patients with borderline functioning and even borderline addictive behavior. The potential to reorganize in a particular way the relation to others can modulate significantly and durably the functioning of the subject. We demonstrate here the importance of the pivotal age of adolescence, an age of possibilities and changes. We study a depressive symptom in reference to the moment when it occurs, to the psychopathological state in which it is integrated. It is by privileging the dynamic aspect of the psychic structure that the therapist’s action, assisting the subject’s narrativity, allows the latter to express their quest for meaning through the work of elaboration.
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