On Teenagers And Tattoos

In his article “On Teenagers and Tattoos”, Dr. Andres Martin argued that, teenagers tend to get tattoos and piercings to seek group affiliation. Although families of the adolescent are usually against these body decorations of irreversible nature, studying more about why and how teenagers wear them can be an effective approach to learn more about teenagers.

Generally, figuration can be seen more than disfigurement when interpreting bodily decorations of teenagers. The adolescent are trying to turn their natural bodies to their personalized bodies. Beyond scientific judgment made for the adolescent patients, psychiatrists might be able to interpret their patients’ internal state by reading their skins.

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