Adolescence and Delinquency: An Object-Relations Theory Approach - Hardcover

Bruce R. Brodie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0765704730 ISBN 13: 9780765704733

Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc. (UK), 2007

Synopsis

This book applies modern object relations theory—particularly the concept of intersubjectivity as articulated by Thomas Ogden—to a population for which the treatment du jour is increasingly cognitive-behavioral. Taking his lead from the delinquent adolescents in his practice, Dr. Brodie presents a treatment approach based on respect rather than condescension. Adolescents are related to as people, rather than as transitory objects passing through a stage. Rather than judging their feelings and behaviors as aberrant, the author views them as having emerged out of the complex matrix of his patients lives.

Adolescence and Delinqucney: An Object Relations Theory Approach is less an attempt to apply object relations theory to a particular population than it is an attempt to illuminate the seamlessness of theory and application. Theory and case examples are presented in a dialectical relationship, psychological theory having no meaning other than an attempt to understand real people, and the people we work with are unintelligible outside some systematic frame of reference.

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About the Author

Bruce R. Brodie has worked at the "Center," a secure residential treatment center for delinquent adolescents for the past twenty years, thirteen of those years as either clinical director or director of training. Dr. Brodie is also adjunct professor at CSPP at Alliant University and is associate director at the Saturday Center for Psychotherapy. He maintains a private practice in Santa Monica.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc. (UK)
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0765704730
• ISBN 13: 9780765704733
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192