The authors analysing the chronicle of the therapeutic community "Il Forteto" (in Florence) put forward some hypotheses about the potential ideological deviations that could invest such an alleged therapeutic community - officially taking care of people with psycho-social needs - if the organization follows an auto referential and totalitarian course. This paper describes the personnel’s internalisation process of a totalitarian regime and illustrates the possible psychiatric consequences. The critical ideas of this paper are founded on Britton and Steiner’s (1994) psychopathological and psychoanalytic approach.
Keywords: Therapeutic community, ideology, totalitarian cult, narcissistic perversion, dominant idea, PTSD, DID.