Drawing on historical and contemporary thinking and research, Bloch, a practicing psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, develops a therapeutically oriented understanding of adolescence which
emphasizes the role of emancipatory guilt in adolescent pathology. He questions the traditional psychoanalytic view of development and pathogenesis, and proposes instead an ego-maturational
model. Background chapters overviewing historical and interdisciplinary work on adolescence are followed by sections on development during adolescence and the evaluation and treatment of
deviations from normal development. A final chapter presents an extended case history of analysis of a 12-year-old boy. Annotation 穢2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
