By Robin Anderson, Anna Dartington
It is a sensible research of the artwork of fixing relatives disruptions because of young people. employees of the Adolescent division of the Tavistock hospital describe more than a few disturbances, from adjustment crises to anorexia nervosa and psychosis.
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Related to these difficult feelings was her inability to tolerate being alone. She accomplished this with much misery, and also through becoming identified with an image of me in which she believed I spent time I was not with her in a kind of feverish and distraught studying. This was the mirror of how she spent her time, particularly i n the last year of the therapy when she was preparing for exams. H e r capacities to think and work were adversely affected by the problems she had in being alone, and the inability to tolerate silence, which meant, I think, an awareness of very persecutory sounds within her, preventing her having any space to think.
Angelica Garnett, the daughter of Venessa Bell, has written poign antly about the revelation of her father's identity in her adolescence. F o r 17 years she and her brothers had been living with Vanessa and Clive Bell and a family friend and fellow artist Duncan Grant. One day ... Vanessa ... took me into the drawing room at Charleston and told me that Duncan, not Clive was my real father. She hugged me close and spoke about love; underneath her sweetness of manner lay an embarrassment and a lack of ease of which I was acutely aware and which washed over my head like the waves of the sea.
It is important that people working with learning disabled adolescents ac knowledge their sexual feelings and impulses as being age-appropriate, yet do not deny the difficulties that can arise when there is a marked discrepancy between cognitive and physiological development. A n example would be that of John, a 13-year-old boy who is seen with his parents and siblings for psychoanalytic family therapy. John frequently touches his penis and clearly experiences exciting and dis turbing genital sexual feelings, yet his favourite T V programmes and videos are those aimed at the under-5 audience, and he likes to play with brightly coloured toys designed for small children.