Youth Mental Health Crises and the Broken Social Link

Auteur

Carl Waitz, PsyD is an attending psychologist at Boston Children's Hospital and on faculty at Harvard Medical School. He supervises psychiatry and psychology trainees, teaches at Boston University, and has served as President of the Massachusetts Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology. He has a small private practice serving adolescents and young adults.

Texte du rabat

This book critically examines the circumstances surrounding the failure of rites of passage in U.S. society and its relationship with the mental health crisis overtaking youth in America today.

Contenu

Part 1: Antecedents 1. Rites of Passage and Suicide: The youth mental health crisis, Van Gennep, and Durkheim 2. An Oedipal odyssey: Freud's iterations of the father 3. Lacanian glosses on Freudian bosses: Further thoughts on the father Part 2: The Disease of the Infinite 4. For the love of God almighty: A Brief History of the Social Link and Civil Religion in the US 5. The Impact of Consumer Capitalism on the Social Link 6. A Broken Image: Technological Advancement and Youth Mental Health Part III: Le Mal de la Jeunesse 7. The Murder of Agamemnon 8. Stigma and Stigmata 9. The Loss of Not Knowing Part 4: Psychoanalysis in Society 10. Crooked Cures 11. Elements of an Ethical Response 12. Fantasia