Program Description
In this course, the Novicks will share clinical material to illustrate a reconceptualization of adolescent development which offers enhanced technical opportunities for effective treatment of a population long thought resistant to psychodynamic therapies. Drawing from the history of psychoanalytic descriptions of adolescence, they will suggest that traditional models illuminate pathology but misrepresent normal development.

Their two-systems model of self-regulation better corresponds to the reality of adolescent health and disturbance. They will apply that model to the crystallization of conscience in late adolescence as a crucial component of adult personality-formation, with clinical examples to demonstrate the challenges of addressing hostile omnipotent defensive solutions to experiences of trauma in patients of all ages.

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