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In this paper, I discuss how the specific developmental function of adolescence can result in behaviour and thought which resemble the adult psychoses but which, in most circumstances, are fundamentally different from the adult psychoses.
Anybody who treats the seriously disturbed adolescent will be familiar with a simple and obvious characteristic of these adolescents—it is an irreconcilable, unanswerable quest to alter the image of the body.