L’onorario: un elemento del setting in psicoanalisi. Il caso di una adolescente in psicoterapia psicoanalitica pro bono

Journal title COSTRUZIONI PSICOANALITICHE
Author/s Pier Luigi Rocco, Laura Perini
Publishing Year 2010 Issue 2010/20 Language Italian
Pages 14 P. 47-60 File size 553 KB
DOI 10.3280/COST2010-020003
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In this paper the author describes the situation of a psychoanalytic psychotherapy in a pro bono setting. When, for economic reasons, a therapist has to modify the setting, introducing a change which excludes the payment of the sessions, some variations of the therapist/patient relationship may occur. These may help the development of the patient and her/his relations with her/his internal objects. The paper starts with an examination of the current literature of this issue, with the factors which can lead to a pro bono therapy and also examines the dangers which can arise. An exemplification is made describing the case of an adolescent treated in a psychoanalytic psychotherapy, whose mother, for intrinsic reasons regarding her relationship with her daughter, decided to stop the payment of the therapy.

Keywords: Psychoanalytic psychotherapy, pro bono setting, adolescent psychotherapy, fee, setting variations

Pier Luigi Rocco, Laura Perini, L’onorario: un elemento del setting in psicoanalisi. Il caso di una adolescente in psicoterapia psicoanalitica pro bono in "COSTRUZIONI PSICOANALITICHE" 20/2010, pp 47-60, DOI: 10.3280/COST2010-020003