Reignier, Sylvie <br/><br/>
The Intimacy of the Child and the Adolescent when Undergoing a Psychological Assessment 

 -  2016.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> The psychological assessment of a child or adolescent is, somewhat confusedly, perceived by the adolescent as a device to explore his or her psychic intimacy. Indeed, the projective tests are pathways of access to the unconscious and ways of evaluating psychic limits. And yet intimacy is based, starting from the “Skin-Ego,” on the constitution of these bodily and then psychic limits, which make it possible to ward off the fantasies and identifications linked to the primitive movements of the child vis-à-vis the primal scene. It is reinforced by the envelope of the family group, guardian of the elements of the narcissistic contract which unites it with the child from the beginning. The clinician, through the material ga­thered and the examination of his counter-transference, will be able to evaluate how the capacity of the child to open up his or her intimacy to another, or on the contrary, his or her need to evacuate it, to disqualify it, or to deny it, expresses the solidarity and fragility of his or her psychosexual development as well as that of his or her identity: supported by the elaboration of his or her Oedipal movements or, on the contrary, attacked by jealousy and infantile distress, and sometimes by the demands of his or her internal groupality.