Youth Mental Health Crises and the Broken Social Link
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-66631-0 (ISBN)
The book develops a Freudian understanding of rites of initiation and the larger social link, based on Freud’s psychoanalytic myths read through a Lacanian lens. It further surveys the deterioration of common civil identifications in the United States, the advancement of consumer capitalism in the late 20th century, and the development of social media in the 21st century as each composing a tectonic shift destabilizing the traditional function of the rite of initiation. As a result, adolescents today have no reliable method of entering the social link through symbolic identification, nor the ability to use it to bind their libido. The book traces the clinical consequences of this failure to the recent waves of mass psychogenic illness in adolescents, the rocketing increase in psychiatric hospitalizations, and the dramatic rise in suicidal thoughts and behaviours in the past years. It also offers possible pathways forward for both adolescents and psychoanalytic clinicians working with them.
Drawing on multiple psychoanalytic schools of thought and clinical experience, this book is a vital resource for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and clinicians working with adolescents.
Carl Waitz, PsyD is an attending psychologist at Boston Children's Hospital and on faculty at Harvard Medical School. He supervises psychiatry and psychology trainees, teaches at Boston University, and has served as President of the Massachusetts Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology. He has a small private practice serving adolescents and young adults.
Part 1: Antecedents 1. Rites of Passage and Suicide: The youth mental health crisis, Van Gennep, and Durkheim 2. An Oedipal odyssey: Freud’s iterations of the father 3. Lacanian glosses on Freudian bosses: Further thoughts on the father Part 2: The Disease of the Infinite 4. For the love of God almighty: A Brief History of the Social Link and Civil Religion in the US 5. The Impact of Consumer Capitalism on the Social Link 6. A Broken Image: Technological Advancement and Youth Mental Health Part III: Le Mal de la Jeunesse 7. The Murder of Agamemnon 8. Stigma and Stigmata 9. The Loss of Not Knowing Part 4: Psychoanalysis in Society 10. Crooked Cures 11. Elements of an Ethical Response 12. Fantasia
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.08.2024 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 394 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-66631-5 / 1032666315 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-66631-0 / 9781032666310 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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