Moses and Egle Laufers' work at the Brent Adolescent Centre (formerly Brent Consultation Centre) has established an authoritative position in the psychoanalytic treatment of adolescents. In previous publications they have described extensive clinical research into adolescent breakdown and suicide which provided a background for the development and exposition of their psychoanalytic model of adolescent development.

This new monograph, Adolescent Breakdown and Beyond, provides an approachable account of some of the clinical issues which have provided a focus for previous books, utilizing the same format as the companion volume, The Suicidal Adolescent, published by Karnac in 1995. The book is divided into two halves: the first half contains a collection of papers