Pinel, Jean-Pierre

Institutional Treatment of Violent Adolescents - 2007.


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This paper explores the psychical movements at work in specialized institutions for adolescents displaying violent behavior. It tries to show that the process of resonance located in these configurations constitutes a singular form of transference. It argues that the modalities for receiving, containing, and resonating constitute, under certain conditions, analyzed in this text, an essential operator of the therapeutic process.