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Revista Sul-Americana de Psicologia
On-line version ISSN 2318-650X
Abstract
SPICHIGER, María Cecilia Besser. The experience of an adolescent individuation: confusion parental role as a risk factor in the context of family adoptio. Rev. Sul-Am. Psicol. [online]. 2013, vol.1, n.1, pp.81-101. ISSN 2318-650X.
In this article a case study derived from a therapeutic process in order to analyze the relationship between parental role confusion in the process of individuation of a teenager adopted by the maternal grandmother, her biological mother within the family system remains . The analysis allows us to observe how the "symptoms" of the patient were within a family system dominated confusion, triangulations and fuzzy boundaries, among others. This family structure, together with the parental role confusion, where there is no clearly defined maternal figure, would hamper the process of individuation of the teenager
Keywords : Confusion of roles; family structure; process of individuation.