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The Psychology Of Adolescent Criminality. Ep 3. The Unseen Child & Acting Out
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A child can be fed, spoken to, and provided for, yet still feel unreachable inside. When that happens, silence doesn’t always stay silent, it turns into action. I’m Kim Lee, a child and adolescent psychotherapist, and I take you into the psychology of adolescent criminality through the lens of attachment loss and acting out behaviors that can look like “bad choices” from the outside.
I walk through the story of a fourteen-year-old boy who keeps taking small items he doesn’t need. As we slow the moment down, the real motive surfaces: not the object, but the sudden feeling of…
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