Adolescents

In the second part of this article, Dr. Peyru shows another range of ties that compose family life, responding to questions such as:

Which is the place and conflict of the adolescent in the family?

In puberty there is a permanent attraction to being among each other.  When adolescents stray from the family place they need to collectively affirm their differences from older people.  The group performs a function of support and provides personal redefinition, for which its role is positive.  But it is also imposing, in that each member has to unnecessarily demonstrate the legitimacy to belong.

Much as the porcupine, the modern adolescent shuts into him or herself, ready for biting anyone that comes near with a dominant and proud attitude.  The adolescent no longer follows the parents model: he ignores them.  Although there is a desire to be autonomous, which implies a certain distance from the ones closest, he is angry for not getting attention.  He doesn’t tolerate closeness either and parents have a hard time accepting this.

Parents take a long time to accept the straying of adolescents and teachers resist to stop seeing them as children.  From this moment on, the only purpose of the adolescent is projecting himself in a world built during the 70’s: a cultural world that substitutes the social world that rejects them.

Collaborated in this article: Dra. Graciela Peyrú

Psycho-neuronal-immunology studies the relation between an organism’s emotions and immune responses.