Knobel called syndrome from adolescence to normal behaviors that occur during adolescence are considered normal, but that outside this period would be considered pathological. This is because their actions involve psychotic features such defensive, phobic, manic, or schizoid. is why he describes as an entity semipatológica.
The author includes the proviso that the contradiction syndrome "normal" implies syndrome as a clinical entity and normally refers to being out of condition.
mentions as characteristics of adolescents alternating between imbalance, instability, withdrawal, shyness, boldness, urgency, lack of interest, the presence of emotional conflicts and crises religious, intellectualization, heterosexual and homosexual conduct casual, etc. and argues that this is normal as abnormal what a teenager would balance. Knobel
develops ten characteristic symptoms of this syndrome are :
- Search self and identity
- Trend group
- need to intellectualize and fantasize Religious Crisis
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- temporary Relocation
- sexual evolution from auto-eroticism to heterosexuality
- Social attitude repossession with antisocial tendencies
- successive Contradictions in all forms of behavior
- progressive separation of parents Constants
- mood fluctuations and mood
Bibliography:
• Aberastury A. and M. Knobel (1980) The normal adolescence. Buenos Aires. Polity Press.
