Condotte distruttive e mortifere in adolescenza

The Authors think about the complex theme of aggressiveness, hopelessness and destructiveness in adolescence, trying to propose some reflections and inputs. Developing this subject the Authors use some clinical cases seen at the Department they work in, trying to read them in psychodynamic terms and using the point of view of different Authors (such as Winnicott, Meltzer, jeammet et al.). Two main concepts enliven this work. The first one is the importance of the environment for the adolescent's development: it is fundamental the way in which the others replay to adolescent's action in terms of the meaning acquired by this actions. The second one is the continuity exsisting within the internai world, so that it is possible to find pathological aspects in healthy people and healthy aspects in pathological people: comparing and weighing up the mixture of pathological and healthy aspects, each time combining in a different measure, give us the opportunity to understand and possibly help the adolescent we are dealing with.