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ROJAS-URREGO, Alejandro. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of the Depressed Adolescent: Technical Principles. rev.colomb.psiquiatr. [online]. 2008, vol.37, suppl.1, pp.78-93. ISSN 0034-7450.

Introduction: While adolescence in essence means growth, depression on the other hand would by definition be the opposing "movement": a tendency towards languor, abatement, inhibition, immobility, prostration, zero, sometimes even towards nothing. Development: In an attempt to articulate these two concepts and the notions of history, structure, and juncture, the author underscores the importance of an appropriate psychotherapeutic management of adolescent depression. To begin, he takes into account the fact that this disorder is multidetermined and in consequence, the existence of various vertexes of possible interventions. This paper focuses on psychoanalytic psychotherapy, one of several possible psychotherapeutic modalities available in this context. He discusses some of the generalities of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and then goes on to examine three themes not sufficiently explored in the literature: the initial interviews, the indications, and finally, what is known as bifocal therapy. Conclusion: To conclude, he invites the reader to ponder on the importance of the therapeutic encounter with the depressed adolescent and on the transcendence of analyzing and giving meaning to her depression

Keywords : Adolescence; depression; psychoanalytical psychotherapy.

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