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This article presents an eclectic psychodynamic psychotherapy approach for exceptionally and profoundly gifted adolescents and adults, describing stages of treatment from crisis management to integrating extracognitive abilities. It emphasizes assessment, therapeutic alliance, diagnosis, stress and medication management, and resolving guilt, autonomy, and extracognitive–intellectual conflicts to enhance functioning.
This article reviews psychotherapy approaches for gifted children, adolescents, and adults, summarizing psychoanalytic, psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and eclectic treatments. Case reports illustrate clinical stages, therapeutic goals, challenges clinicians face, crisis intervention, and strategies for integrating giftedness with personality and social functioning.
Clinical observations of exceptionally gifted adolescents and young adults describe how intense drives, sensitivities, early autonomy, and emerging grandiosity produce deep conflicts. Lacking frustration tolerance and emotional maturity, many respond with avoidance, provocation, or self-harm. Psychotherapy helped by building trust, insight, and integration, reducing underachievement and self-destructive behavior.
