Journal title PSICOTERAPIA PSICOANALITICA
Author/s Marta Vigorelli
Publishing Year 2020 Issue 2020/2
Language Italian Pages 21 P. 75-95 File size 275 KB
DOI 10.3280/PSP2020-002005
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After a brief description of the psychosocial context of severe emergency due to Covid-19 in Lombardy (Italy), the paper focuses on some questions that open a space for reflection to psychoanalytic psychotherapy about how to take care of the helping professions and how to stay with the extreme pain of rescuers and the therapists immersed in a collective trauma. Starting with an institutional psychoanalytic clinical training, in dialogue with the contributions from emergency psychology, we will describe the psychothe¬ra¬peutic processes of two health professionals – the head of a residential facility for senior citizens and a young resident doctor – which showed a specific traumatic condensation on several levels: on the individual subjective level regarding the patients, but also in terms of the therapists’ personal life; the level associated with the health emergency, with its tragic social and political connections, as well as their trauma as carers and the trauma of the patients and their families. An intense and flexible clinical work intertwines with the vicissitudes of the working environment of these professionals who are directly involved in the pandemic, favoring their individual resilience and their ability to intervene in a transformative way with themselves and the treatment contexts.
Keywords: Trauma and individual grief, trauma and collettive grief, helping professions, model of emergency intervention in a residential facility for senior citizens, resilience.
Marta Vigorelli, Il trauma individuale nel trauma collettivo. Stare con il dolore estremo di chi cura in "PSICOTERAPIA PSICOANALITICA" 2/2020, pp 75-95, DOI: 10.3280/PSP2020-002005