The Young Adolescent
Clinical Studies
- Author:
Peter Bios
Collier-Macmillan, ?4.50
This book is intended to be a clinical companion volume to the author’s theoretical book ‘On Adolescence’ published nine years ago. Peter Blos’s standing in the psychoanalytic world is high and his expertise lies in adolescence so that any writings of his on this topic are likely to excite interest.
However, this very wordy and repetitive account of just two cases adds disappointingly little to what has been said before. Those familiar with psychoanalytic views on adolescence will not learn much but they may appreciate this detailed account of two children as seen through psycotherapy.
Those unfamiliar with psychoanalytic theory are likely to find the earlier book more interesting. Theoretical speculations are presented with certainty but, in his introduction, the author grants that his approach ‘was of necessity biased’. This is fair enough in a didactic account of one theoretical view but readers need to be aware that other theorists might well interpret the clinical material in quite different ways.
Michael Rutter
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