A new psychic house: traumaticity and terapeutic reconstruction

Journal title PSICOTERAPIA PSICOANALITICA
Author/s Luigi Antonio Perrotta
Publishing Year 2020 Issue 2019/2
Language Italian Pages 13 P. 189-201 File size 154 KB
DOI 10.3280/PSP2019-002012
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The author describes a process of psychoanalytic psychotherapy conducted in an institution with a severely compromised patient both internally and externally. The intervention is intented to reception and reconstruction of highly damaged patient’s areas; to the elaboration of psychic raw elements and to the integration of fragmented aspects of a story full of traumatic and agonizing events that are difficult to represent. The evolution of therapy shows a slow internalization of a minimal improved object, the construction of more solid internal aspects and mobilizes evident changes on external aspects with new invest-ment possibilities for the patient.

Keywords: Traumaticity, marginality, therapeutic process, institution, serious patient.

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Luigi Antonio Perrotta, Una nuova casa psichica: traumaticità e ricostruzioni terapeutiche. Il caso di Dolcino in "PSICOTERAPIA PSICOANALITICA" 2/2019, pp 189-201, DOI: 10.3280/PSP2019-002012