@article{ref1,
title="Organic illness and psychic puberty: an accumulation of trauma",
journal="Psychoanalytic review",
year="2015",
author="de Kernier, Nathalie",
volume="102",
number="4",
pages="531-550",
abstract="When an adolescent faces serious organic illness, two traumatic events coincide and reinforce each other. The Oedipus fantasy and its murderous component are exacerbated. Starting psychotherapy in these circumstances is a challenge. Teens suffering from serious organic illness rarely request psychological help. They accumulate aggressive impulses that remain unspoken but are self-directed. We will use excerpts from cases to comment upon the problems and psychical processes experienced by such teens. We will show how expressing murder fantasies can be a motor in psychotherapy. Such expression not only supports therapy but also relieves the patient and contributes to a new psychosomatic equilibrium.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0033-2836",
doi="10.1521/prev.2015.102.4.531",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/prev.2015.102.4.531"
}