Presa in carico del paziente straniero con Disturbo da gioco d’azzardo: complessità, limiti e possibilità nella relazione terapeutica

Journal title MISSION
Author/s Valentina Generani, Concettina Varango
Publishing Year 2025 Issue 2025/71
Language Italian Pages 4 P. 35-38 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/mis71-2025oa21190
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The article explores the care of foreign patients with gambling disorder, focusing on the clinical case of Gani, an Albanian man with a complex history of migration and vulnerability.Through a multifocal reflection, the linguistic, symbolic and cultural obstacles that characterize the therapeutic relationship with patients defined as “difficult” are analyzed (Moro, 2002).Clinical work is reinterpreted as a relational process that requires humility, flexibility and the ability to listen beyond conventional codes.The article proposes a therapeutic posture based on the acceptance of not knowing and on the construction of possible alliances even in the absence of explicit motivation and linear collaboration (Moro, 2018).

Keywords: ; Taken in charge; Foreign patient; Therapeutic relationship; Pathological gambling disorder

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Valentina Generani, Concettina Varango, Presa in carico del paziente straniero con Disturbo da gioco d’azzardo: complessità, limiti e possibilità nella relazione terapeutica in "MISSION" 71/2025, pp 35-38, DOI: 10.3280/mis71-2025oa21190