Coming of AgeA leading expert in adolescent psychology transforms our understanding of this most formative life stage Adolescence is the most dramatic and formative period of our lives. It is when we become who we are, when the smallest things can have life long effects. But it is also full of contradictions, making it bewildering to live through and widely misunderstood. We may struggle to understand the adolescents in our lives, but most of us have yet to come