Dinamiche della parentificazione e morfogenesi post-traumatica: cPTSD e DTD

Titolo Rivista MALTRATTAMENTO E ABUSO ALL’INFANZIA
Autori/Curatori Massimiliano Fierro, Elena Acquarini
Anno di pubblicazione 2024 Fascicolo 2024/3
Lingua Italiano Numero pagine 23 P. 113-135 Dimensione file 256 KB
DOI 10.3280/MAL2024-003006
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La parentificazione può essere concettualizzata come una franca situazione traumatica che si può protrarre anche per tutta l’infanzia e l’adolescenza, e non soltanto una forma di trascuratezza infantile. La relazione tra questa dinamica e il trauma infantile è stata poco indagata specificatamente ma è possibile leggere output sintomatologici in relazione a traumaticità complessa che descrive un Disturbo Post-Traumatico da Stress complesso (cPTSD) o un Disturbo da Trauma dello Sviluppo (DTD). Eziopatogenesi, dinamica e sintomatologia permettono di leggere il fenomeno come persistente e protratto con una non-possibilità di strutturare adeguatamente la fiducia epistemica per il ruolo regolativo che manterrà nelle competenze relazionali e nella qualità di vita dell’individuo. Questa tipologia di booster evolutivo potrà condizionare la struttura identitaria, caratteriale mediando l’acquisizione di funzioni e competenze che potranno telescopicamente orientare le atmosfere familiari e relazionali nella transgenerazionalità.;

Keywords:parentificazione, inversione di ruolo genitoriale, cPTSD, DTD, trauma infantile, trauma complesso.

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Massimiliano Fierro, Elena Acquarini, Dinamiche della parentificazione e morfogenesi post-traumatica: cPTSD e DTD in "MALTRATTAMENTO E ABUSO ALL’INFANZIA" 3/2024, pp 113-135, DOI: 10.3280/MAL2024-003006