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Responsiveness in Psychotherapy with Antisocial Adolescents

Creating a “therapeutic situation” is a necessary condition for any type of psychotherapy. Antisocial adolescents often come from disturbed and chaotic backgrounds and present as behaviorally disturbed and deprived. One of the necessary ingredients in creating a therapeutic situation with them includes being responsive to them. The meaning of responsiveness, within a psychodynamic frame, is defined and its applications and limitations are explored.

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