[Psychoanalytic viewpoints on adolescent sexuality]

With the beginning of puberty the youth is challenged to transform this primarily biological development into a psychological experience and to integrate it into his personality. Depending on the quality of development of personality up to then and on the arrangement with environment this process will be experienced as a crisis, through which the youth at last will find a new positive identity or it ends in a permanent identity-crisis and manifestation of a neurosis. The doctor's sympathetic, understanding attitude is more effective for managing a critical development of puberty than a classical psychoanalytic treatment.