Playing for time: A psychotherapist's experience of counselling young people

Author: Gordon Paul  

Publisher: Routledge Ltd

ISSN: 1470-1057

Source: Psychodynamic Counselling, Vol.6, Iss.3, 2000-08, pp. : 339-357

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Abstract

This article describes the experience of a psychotherapist working for several years with adolescents and young adults at a centre offering weekly psychoanalytic psychotherapy. It describes some of the pressures placed on the therapist by young people engaging in considerable degrees of acting out and the difficulties in holding on to a sense of valuable work in the face of different attacks.