[Psychiatric disorders during adolescence (author's transl)].

The psychopathology of adolescence shows three areas of dysfunction: 1. maturity deficits with an attitude of protest, loss of motivations, conversion symptomatology, 2. hypochondriac symptoms, obsessive-compulsive features, dysphorias, intellectual-physical handicaps, 3. antisocial behaviour, delinquency, neglect, addiction. 3. different courses can be distinguished longitudinally: 1. a double peak course with a disorder during childhood and adolescence with antisocial behavior, personality disorders and neurotic developments, 2. disorders during childhood which improve later (enuresis, encopresis, tics), 3. psychosis, maturity crisis, depressive reactions, obsessive compulsive syndromes.