Working through centred on the body in the analysis of a psychotic adolescent.

Through a few clinical sessions, the author demonstrates the complexity of psychoanalytic work with difficult adolescents, while also indicating its benefits when this approach is enhanced by working on the body-mind connection. The author shows how she establishes contact with a difficult adolescent patient who is experiencing immense fear and intense hatred of her body and how this patient then communicates through her body intense anxieties relating to body-mind dissociation. The bodily transference is central to this work.