An individual approach to psychotherapy with psychotic patients |
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Authors: | Eleonora Fe D'ostiani |
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Affiliation: | Istituto di Neuropsichiatria Infantile, Universita di Roma , Via dei Sabelli 108, 00185, Roma, Italy |
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Abstract: | In this paper I attempt to explore particular aspects of the therapeutic process, especially the unusual way in which the therapy of this 11-year-old girl, referred for possible or potential anorexia nervosa, came to a sudden end. The oedipal configuration provides a useful theoretical framework in which to consider the course and vicissitudes of treatment. The restoration of a link between the child and her father allowed a distance to be created between mother and daughter. The meaning of this is considered both in terms of external events and clinically within the transference relationship. |
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Keywords: | Eating disorder oedipal configuration individual psychotherapy. |
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