Fiorenzo Ranieri
On 10 October 2026, as part of the training activities organised by the Martha Harris Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents (Associazione Martha Harris di Psicoterapia Psicoanalitica per l’Infanzia e l’Adolescenza), Professor Anna Maria Speranza gave a seminar devoted to silent distress in adolescence.
This article offers a reworking of the material presented and discussed by the speaker, preserving its theoretical perspective, principal clinical references, and implications for psychopathological assessment. It is not a transcript of the seminar, but a considered reconstruction of its main themes, organised in a discursive form to facilitate reading and consultation.
The seminar addressed a question of particular clinical importance: how can we recognise and understand forms of adolescent suffering that may remain unnoticed for a long time because they do not manifest themselves through overtly conflictual or transgressive behaviour?
Distress That Goes Unnoticed
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