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Adolescence… Getting over the confusion of love Volume 86, issue 8, octobre 2010

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Psychiatre des hôpitaux, EPSMD de l'Aisne, 02320 Prémontré

“Delicate transition” is how Victor Hugo calls this period of life, unclassifiable, whatever the historical period or the current society and establishments. Always independent from established arguments, whether they are challenged or ignored, or sometimes answering arguments to the letter, adolescents are out of tune with their elders, who want to educate them, train them, understand them, help them, repress, to silence, or otherwise make them talk, sometimes sympathetically, fondly, with anguish, or sometimes with violence etc.