Destructiveness and possible constructions in life and in psychoanalysis

Journal title PSICOTERAPIA PSICOANALITICA
Author/s Luisa Perrone
Publishing Year 2016 Issue 2016/2
Language Italian Pages 17 P. 111-127 File size 197 KB
DOI 10.3280/PSP2016-002008
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Through the description of a clinical case, the Author aims to reflect upon self-cutting, which is nowadays largely spread out among teenagers and young adults, and more generally on severe pathologies that involve extensive use of the body as a vehicle for communicating primitive self experiences. She also discusses the peculiarities of the pschoanalytical setting to be co-created with the patient in the treatment of serious illnesses, whose level of primitive destructiveness threatens not only their lives but also the chances of cure.

Keywords: Self-cutting in adolescence, setting in severe psychopatologies, primary masochism, death narcissism.

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Luisa Perrone, Distruggere e costruire nella vita e nell’analisi in "PSICOTERAPIA PSICOANALITICA" 2/2016, pp 111-127, DOI: 10.3280/PSP2016-002008