Benoit, Jean-Pierre <br/><br/>
Silence in adolescence: from noise in the street to silence in the analyst’s office 

 -  2023.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> Youth is noisy. The impulses of life, the need for friendship and narcissistic affirmation make themselves heard. Groups, parties, music, everything is a pretext to occupy the sound space. On the contrary, pubertal development takes place in the silence of an intimacy that allows the experiences of the body and the first love affairs to acquire meaning, far from the presence of adults, without comment. When symptoms appear during adolescence and treatment is necessary, the therapeutic relationship very often comes up against the silence of the adolescents. The psychotherapist will take care to adjust so that silence is not a source of anxiety in the first interviews, so that it can become a space of subjectivation during the therapeutic process.