Emotional trauma and psychopathological development. The im-portance of childhood history in the clinic and in therapy

Journal title PSICOTERAPIA PSICOANALITICA
Author/s Franco De Masi
Publishing Year 2020 Issue 2019/2
Language Italian Pages 19 P. 72-90 File size 205 KB
DOI 10.3280/PSP2019-002004
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This work emphasizes the importance of formulating a dynamic di-agnosis of the patient’s mental condition when he asks for a therapy. This framework requires the reconstruction, however susceptible to additions or changes, of the emotional history of the patient and of the environment in which he has lived. This research does not coincide, therefore, with the attempt to formulate a medical diagnosis but rather with the ability to intuit the patient’s psychic functioning and the rea-sons for his suffering. In this context, the concept of emotional trauma must be framed, that is, the set of distorted responses capable of condi-tioning the development in a psychopathological sense.

Keywords: Psychopathology, psychoanalytic diagnosis, cumulative trauma, emotional trauma, psychopathological development, psycho-pathological constructions.

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Franco De Masi, Trauma emotivo e sviluppo psicopatologico in "PSICOTERAPIA PSICOANALITICA" 2/2019, pp 72-90, DOI: 10.3280/PSP2019-002004