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• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Searching for a Model
• Overview of This Book
• Acknowledgments
• The Author
• Part I Adolescent Development: A Tasks Model
• 1 A Framework for Adolescent Development
• The Evolving Contact Boundary
• The Gestalt Notion of Self
• Intrapsychic and Interpersonal Contact Boundaries
• 2 The Child Self and the Family
• The Family as a Field
• Field Forces and the Family Milieu
• The Contribution of Family Therapy Theory
• The Contribution of Gestalt Therapy Theory
• Embedded Experience
• Differentiation and Embeddedness
• Introjection
• Intrapsychic and Interpersonal Field Process in Childhood Experience
• The Child Self
• Case Example
• 3 Reorganizing the Interpersonal World
• Disembedding the Self
• Contact Boundaries
• Boundaries as Separation
• Boundaries as Connection
• 4 Taking Ownership of the Self
• Appropriating Sensory Experience
• The Synthesizing Function of the Self
• Synthesizing the Self
• Owning and Disowning
• Owning and Identity
• The Self as New Gestalt: The Problem of Figural Integrity
• The Subjectification of Experience
• Anger and Projection
• Adolescent Narcissism
• Acting Out
• Organizational Needs and Tasks
• 5 The Polarities of Adolescence and Development
• Time and the Polarization of Experience
• Differentiation of Self Gestalts
• Adolescence as Paradigm Shift
• Ambivalent Polarity Dynamics
• Frozen, Protective Polarity Dynamics
• Interrupted Polarity Dynamics
• Case Example
• 6 The Tasks of Adolescence
• Adolescence and Contact
• Disembedding
• Intrapsychic and Interpersonal Process
• The Projective Framework of Experience
• Interiority
• Integration
• Part II Adolescents and Psychotherapy: Application of the Tasks Mode
• 7 The Structure of Adolescent Psychotherapy
• The Contextual Structure of Therapeutic Tasks
• The Developmental Structure of the Therapeutic Work
• 8 Addressing Family Process
• Contact Needs of Adolescent Development
• Parenting as Contact Style
• Imbalances of Contact Process
• Underbounded Family Process
• Overbounded Family Process
• Specific Contact Styles
• The Introjecting Family
• The Confluent Family
• The Projecting Family
• The Retroflected Family
• The Deflecting Family
• The Desensitized Family
• Conclusion
• 9 Initiating the Therapeutic Relationship
• The Meanings of Coming to Therapy
• Client Entry Styles
• Underbounded Entry Style
• The Overbounded Entry Style
• Initial Pragmatic Considerations
• Getting the Adolescent to Come to Therapy
• Whom to See Initially
• The Initial Meeting
• Conclusion
• 10 From the Family to the Self: The Psychotherapy of Disembedding
• Therapy as Ordinary Conversation
• Connecting with the Disembedding-Stage Client
• What the Therapist Brings to the Field
• The Therapist as a Self
• Attending to the Therapeutic Field
• Avoiding Land Mines
• The Work of Liking, Respecting, and Valuing
• Confrontation and Contact
• Disembedding-Stage Therapeutics
• Structuring Initial Interviews
• Working Within the Projection
• Fantasy and Role Playing with the Projecting Adolescent
• Ego Tutoring
• Conclusion
• 11 The Inner World of the Adolescent: The Psychotherapy of Interiority and Integration
• Interiority as a Natural Outgrowth of Disembedding
• Cultivating Dilemmas
• Therapy as Anthropology: Entering the Adolescent’s World
• Self Symbols
• Music
• Literature
• Artifacts of Personal Life
• Therapy as Evocation: Inviting the Inner Self into the Room
• Using Art Materials with Adolescent Clients
• Storytelling
• Enactment
• Fantasy and Role Playing
• Joint Sessions
• Journals and Reports
• Conclusion
• References
• Index