Adolescence and Delinquency: An Object-Relations Theory Approach (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780765704740)

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.

Author: Bruce R. Brodie
ISBN-10: 0765704749
ISBN-13: 9780765704740
Publisher: Jason Aronson
Language: English
Published: 05/03/2007
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.84h x 6.08w x 0.61d

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 09/01/2007 pg. 120