Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Bruce R. Brodie, Ph. D.
Publisher: Jason Aronson Publishers
Imprint: Jason Aronson Publishers
Dimensions:
Width: 16.00cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 23.70cm
Weight: 0.447kg
ISBN: 9780765704733
ISBN 10: 0765704730
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 04 May 2007
Audience:
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Rooted in object relations theory, Dr. Brodie presents a compelling psychology of the delinquent youth. This psychology allows him a therapeutic approach that seeks to impart understanding but does not shy from helpfulness, and that above all guides his clinical involvement in ways that these adolescents need. His theory and practice allow him to approach the adolescent who is determined not to be understood, who clings addictively to bad objects, and to effect positive outcomes. This book is a significant contribution to the field.--Owen Lewis, M.D.
When dealing with the most complicated cases of psychopathology clinicians need as many different tools as possible to be effective with the widest range of cases. The psychopathology of crime and aggression is a most complex area of psychiatry where bios, psyche, and socios interact to produce the most amazing conundrums. This concise and well-written volume offers an approach to delinquents in the rich tradition of the Austrian school of healing pedagogy, started by August Aichhorn. In a time whenevidence-based medical practice is foremost in our minds, this volume complements the needed insights from reductionistic science and clinical trials with the wisdom of practice-based evidence. The author clearly has developed an amazing empathic stance with these most unfortunate youths. He has systematized his approach with the help of object-relations theory to the point where we can learn how to reach all those who never will complete a single clinical trial and whose psychology resists
Author Information
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.
