This book is one of the Tavistock Clinic series of books which aims to make available the clinical and theoretical work that is most influential at the Tavistock Clinic. The series presents new approaches in the understanding and treatment of psychological disturbance in children, adolescents and adults at an individual and at a family level. It covers issues such as understanding trauma, the growth of the personality, eating disorders, systemic family psychotherapy, psychotic states in children, and the work of Hanna Segal.

In this book, staff of the Adolescent Department examine in accessible language different clinical aspects of adolescent disturbance, exploring in particular its impact on the family. The chapters look at a range of severity of disturbance from adjustment crises to anorexia nervosa and psychosis as well as