Birraux, Annie

Parents in Situations of School Phobia - 2014.


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The author illustrates how parental resistance can lay the groundwork for adolescent psychopathology. The presentation of a problematic therapeutic situation helps remind us of some principles concerning the treatment of families. While he suggests that school phobia be considered as a post-traumatic syndrome rather than a neurotic problem, he emphasizes the burden of parents’ nonintrojected infantile ideals on adolescent development.