Haslam M T
Int J Soc Psychiatry. 1978 Winter;24(4):304-11. doi: 10.1177/002076407802400412.
Many authors have shown that adolescent breakdown is often associated with emotional deprivation in childhood. Psychotherapeutic intervention before the personality becomes too fixed and rigid should offer a means of improvement through the creation of substitute empathetic relationships, and prognosis should be improved to the extent to which this is successful. This hypothesis is tested through a follow-up study involving 100 adolescents, and the hypothesis is found proved in the diagnostic category of adolescent personality disorder, but of no apparent relevance in other groups.
