Creatività della coppia analista e paziente nella terapia della psicosi. Il caso di Anna

Journal title EDUCAZIONE SENTIMENTALE
Author/s Maurizio Peciccia
Publishing Year 2016 Issue 2016/25
Language Italian Pages 20 P. 54-73 File size 211 KB
DOI 10.3280/EDS2016-025005
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Creativity of the couple analyst and patient in the treatment of psychosis. The case of Anna. In this article I describe the world of Anna, a young woman who, after years of sexual abuse had developed a severe chronic psychosis. The patient didn’t speak anymore. The therapeutic communication was possible thanks to an exchange of drawings between Anna and myself. The patient‘s drawings document both the devastating psychological effects of sexual abuse and the generative abilities of the couple analyst patient. The exchange of therapeutic drawings makes it possible to visualize the overcoming of the delusional defenses, the reconstruction of the missing identity and other important stages in the process of recovery from psychosis. The drawings illustrate the perverse psychodynamic of sexual abuse and its elaboration in the creativity of transference and countertransference.

Keywords: Chronic psychosis, sexual abuse, reconstruction of identity, progressive mirror drawing, creativity, transference, counter transference

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Maurizio Peciccia, Creatività della coppia analista e paziente nella terapia della psicosi. Il caso di Anna in "EDUCAZIONE SENTIMENTALE" 25/2016, pp 54-73, DOI: 10.3280/EDS2016-025005