[Pregnancy in adolescence. Considerations on a clinical case].

Abstract

This report deals with developing a psychotherapy with an adolescent mother who had difficulty accepting her new-born child. Descriptive elements are discussed as well as theoretical considerations regarding maternity during adolescence. More specifically, motherhood, a potentially disturbing event, capable even of producing psychosis, is studied in a person whose behaviour in relation to reality is predominantly on an acting level. Our account focuses on this theme and seeks examine how pregnancy, an important emotional event, can cause serious mental disturbances, when it is acted-out.