Depression in adolescence

Depression  in adolescence
Centro Veneto di Psicoanalisi & Societa Psicoanalitica Italiana

Depression in adolescence



Everything is prepared in childhood but everything is played out in adolescence.

(E. Kestemberg)



Adolescence requires everything to be re-defined. “The ego is assaulted from all sides, from inside and out, and loses the certainty of innocence linked to childhood and to repression.” (J.Laplanche 1986)

The changes that occur in puberty force adolescents to “undo” and to “remake” him/herself, but also to acknowledge themselves and seek acknowledgement, and in doing so they  become  exposed  to themselves and to the Other. This feared yet long-awaited moment makes it necessary for them to reconsider the separation–individuation process and bring it up to date with their new physical/psychological reality. This turbulence includes still oscillating and  instable  identification  processes;  contrast and conflict rest between one’s own creativity and sinking into compliance and self-denial. Deep feelings of sadness and their bodily equivalents often accompany the process of loss and acquisition, and one cannot always differentiate between a transient physiological depressive element and a genuinely pathological form of depression.

  

SCHEDULE                                                                                  

8.45: Registration, President’s welcoming address, introduction by the scientific secretary C. De Giorgi 
9.00: “Flaunting indifference. Melancholic adolescence” FRANCA MUNARI
10.15: “Dealing with unbearable desire: Lele and his prison” CATERINA OLIVOTTO
10.45: Coffee break
11.00: “Images and shapes of depression in adolescence” SILVIA MONDINI 
11.20 Break
13.15 Open discussion
 

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L'evento è stato accreditato con 5,2 crediti formativi.


SPEAKERS

FRANCA MUNARI, SPI-CVP, Padova
CATERINA OLIVOTTO, SPI-CVP, Padova
SILVIA MONDINI, SPI-CVP, Padova
 

Segretario Scientifico CVP: Cosima De Giorgi

Segretario Amministrativo CVP: Caterina Olivetti mail: [email protected]

Informazioni e Iscrizioni: Alberta Batticciotto tel. 049 659711 mail: [email protected]

When
10/02/2018
Where
Padova ITALY