Aspects of Identification and Growth during Late Adolescence and Young Adulthood
- 1 April 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychotherapy
- Vol. 38 (2) , 239-247
- https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1984.38.2.239
Abstract
Psychological growth proceeds through emotional attachment and separation processes. Inhibition of emotional separation in late adolescence can result in delayed psychological differentiation and sometimes identity diffusion. Three cases of analytic psychotherapy are described, in which nonfunctional identifications and idealizations are treated, and delayed maturation resumes through the formation of new, recombinant identifications.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: