Highlights from the article: On adolescence: inside stories: A book review essay developed in conversation with Gianna Williams by Margot Waddell, London, Karnac, 2018, 282 pp., RPR £31.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-782-20526-5 A crucial adolescent concern, as Waddell has already explored in I Inside lives i , is 'the bringing together of the two main stems of sexuality, the sensual and the tender' ([7], p. 141). I Part I Context and background i consists of a chapter entitled I Historical Context i (Chapter 1) and another I Internal Worlds i (Chapter 2), which traces in a concise way the author's theoretical underpinnings of the adolescent process. B GW: b I think that Margot feels in her patients, when talking about their destructiveness, 'the need to offer a friendly hand to take the patient to encounter unattractive parts of himself.'.