Teenager Explores

Nothing is more violent, for a father or a mother to discover that your teen is useless: Loved cutter on the forearm with a cigarette burns, lacerations of the legs. During the adolescence Dolto compared to private molting lobster carapace, compared to the skin is very special. "The skin is a barrier, a narcissistic envelope that protects the world from chaos as possible," (in Skin and traces Métailié, 2003). Being ill at ease sometimes involves the redesign of the surface itself to a makeover and more confusing. The body markings are stops identity, ways to put limits on the skin. "

During this difficult age of mutation that is characterized, more than any other by a floating body identity - awakening of desire, questioning of masculine and feminine, entering puberty - the teenager explores his limitations. specialist psychiatrist adolescence, adds: "The sensory element is very important, the teen became acquainted with his senses, touch, his skin clear that in terms of pleasurable or painful sensations. "