THE IMPORTANCE OF CARING ABOUT THE PSYCHIC IMBALANCE CAUSED WHEN THE ADOLESCENT IS ON THE WAY TO GIVING UP THE PSYCHIC SOLUTIONS BROUGHT BY THE EXTREMIST GROUP

Abstract

Fanatical involvment holds some psychic functions which the adolescent needs. Tending to their emancipation has to take these functions into consideration and work on them. This article presents two objectives : first, to better understand the complex interaction between the adolescent and the fanatical discourse, and then, to suggest some intervention paths. This article is based on the follow-up of four families, which are part of the sample of the author’s thesis. Working with the psychoanalytical frame including the individual and the family level makes it possible to foster not only the adolescent’s but also the family’s capacities to deal with their expéeience.