TY  - JOUR
T1  - THe psychiatric dilemma of adolescence.
AU  - Falstein EI
Y1  - 1969/02/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpsyc.1969.01740140124026
JO  - Archives of General Psychiatry
SP  - 252
EP  - 254
VL  - 20
IS  - 2
N2  - Does the adolescent patient suffer from a genuine psychiatric illness that requires treatment, or is his problem "adolescent turmoil" that will subside, of itself, with future growth? To resolve this dilemma, Masterson undertook a thorough longitudinal study of 101 outpatient adolescents and then compared them with a matched control group. He delineates the relationships of adolescent turmoil to psychiatric illness and details the specific problems in diagnosing schizophrenia, personality disorders, character neurosis, and the effects of epilepsy in adolescents. He describes the clinical outcome in longterm follow-up of the outpatient group, compares the outpatients with the control group and with "relatively healthy" adolescents selected from the control group, and in the final synthesis he presents a new appraisal of the psychiatric significance of "adolescent turmoil." Numerous illustrative case studies and a detailed appendix setting forth the systematic and clinical methods, complete the study.The
SN  - 0003-990X
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpsyc.1969.01740140124026
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1969.01740140124026
ER  -