Christine Anzieu-Premmereur is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst based in New York City, USA. She is the series editor of the Routledge Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis Book Series and the co-editor of A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Contemporary Search for Pleasure (2023), The Infinite Infantile and the Psychoanalytic Task (2022) and A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Body in Today's World (2017).

Mary T. Brady is an adult and child psychoanalyst in San Francisco. She is the author of Psychoanalysis with Adolescents and Children: Learning to Surf (2024) and the editor of Braving the Erotic Field in the Treatment of Children and Adolescents (2022), as well as author of Analytic Engagements with Adolescents (2018) and The Body in Adolescence (2015).

Christine Franckx is a child psychiatrist and training (child) analyst in the Belgian Psychoanalytic Society. She is the EU co-chair of COCAP. She works in private practice in Antwerp with adults, children and infants.

Fernando M. Gómez is a pediatrician, psychiatrist, and child and adolescent psychoanalyst of the Asociación Psicoanalítica Argentina (APA), FEPAL, and IPA. He is the Latin America Co-Chair of COCAP and works in private practice in Buenos Aires with adults, children, and infants.

Introduction PART 1: Introduction: compulsive repetition with the body in infancy: consequences in adolescence and adulthood 1. Baby and compulsion 2. Early psychic cöconstructed structure in a hyperconnected world: new challenges for parents and for clinicians: discussion of Christine Anzieu-Premmereur chapter 3. Destructiveness, melancholy and the death drive 4. Some notes on repetition, repetition compulsion and drive: discussion of René Rousillon chapter 5. Repetition compulsion, from infancy to adulthood: a crossreading of the articles by C. AnzieuPremmereur and R. Roussillon PART 2 Introduction: facing the pain: from substance abuse to human dependence 6. Substance abuse in an adolescent boy: waking the object 7. Substance use as part of a pathological organization: disturbing the persecutor/protector of an adolescent girl 8. A shelter of numbness 9. Discussion on addiction in adolescence through three clinical cases PART 3 Introduction: selfharming, a challenge for both patients and psychoanalysts 10. Selfharming in early life and the difficulty in living for some infants 11. The silenced scream: 'under anorexia nervosa' 12. Selfharm behaviors in adolescents: psychoanalytic understanding 13. Selfharm behaviors in adolescents: understanding the role of social media, family and society: therapeutic implications 14. Discussion of selfharming from a French psychoanalytic perspective 15. A 'superstructure' for holding on to or for selfdestroying? PART 4 Introduction: suicide and masochism in adolescence today 16. An endless tragedy: attempts and suicide in childhood and adolescence 17. Are the kids alright? Why is life unlivable?: suicidal tendencies in gender disorders and trans identity 18. Hosting strangeness: selfharm and suicide in adolescence 19. Discussion on suicides and masochism in adolescence today through three clinical cases 20. Some reflections on the three papers of suicide and masochism in adolescence today