Roosevelt Cassorla, MD, PhD, is a training analyst at the Brazilian Psychoanalytic Societies of São Paulo and Campinas. He is Full Professor at the State University of Campinas and a member of the College of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis. His recent books include Advances in Contemporary Psychoanalytic Field Theory (co-editor) and The Psychoanalyst, the Theatre of Dreams and the Clinic of Enactment (both Routledge), andSuicide Studies: Psychoanalysis and Mental Health (in Portuguese). He received the 2017 Mary S. Sigourney Award for Outstanding Achievement in Psychoanalysis.

Silvia Flechner, MD, is a child, adolescent, and adult training analyst at the Uruguayan Psychoanalytic Society. She is the IPA Publications Committee Chair for the term 2021-2025, and she has been a member of the Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis since 2008.

Series Foreword by Silvia Flechner 1 Stupidity in the analytic field: Vicissitudes of the detachment process in adolescence 2 CHERCHEZ LA FEMME Becoming a woman: the mother-daughter relationship during adolescence 3. Of Skin and of Self-Mutilation in Adolescence 4 The turbulence of puberty in an uncertain world 5 What prevents adolescents from suicide? 6 Effects of adolescent debut on the infantile super-ego 7 Braving the erotic field in the treatment of adolescents 8 In Praise of Modesty - In defense of a certain mystery 9 Towards the construction of the adult identity: Another adolescent mourning 10 Working with adolescents; formlessness, fears and transformation 11 Social withdrawal in adolescence: Psychodynamic reflections and clinical strategies