Not only phobia. Psychodynamic diagnosis of adolescent patients avoiding school

The article is devoted to the issue of avoiding or abandoning school by adolescent patients who attend ambulatory psychotherapy. In part, it is a polemic against the overused diagnosis of school phobia. Using ego psychology and object - relation theory as the basic frame of reference, the author proposes four diagnostic paths allowing to understand and treat these patients. These are: 1) adolescents dominated by neurotic anxiety and defence mechanisms (including phobic mechanisms), 2) patients with depressive mechanisms and fears, 3) antisocial personality development and 4) immature patients (including narcissistic vulnerability and separation anxiety).

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