This article consists of a discussion on therapeutic indications for psychoanalytic tools (psychoanalysis, psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy, or individual psychoanalytic psychodrama) during the crisis of adolescence. These types of tools are among the options for treatment, limited by difficulties in the management of transference when a given adolescent is going through a period of lability of pathological manifestations. Preliminary interviews are thus essential for evaluating such an indication, which will be decisive, but will nevertheless remain temporarily dependent on the adolescent's own transferential engagement.
Adolescent transferential engagement; psychoanalysis; psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy; individual analytic psychodrama