Referring to the mentioned clinical case, the Author try to underline how relationship between the child behavioural troubles and the parental difficulties to cope the conflictual dynamics related to a family member’s death were strictly connected. The same difficulties wich do not allow a normal mourning process. Moreover the Author underlines the importance of play as an opportunity to move psychic energies confined into unresolved infant complexes. Key Words: Mourning; Play; Separation; Envy; Sense of Guilt.

Fabrizio Alfani, in "PSICOBIETTIVO" 2/2007, pp. 135-139, DOI: