Family therapy as an incubator that made family and individual mental development possible in a case of anorexia,
Journal title INTERAZIONI
Author/s Lara Bancheri, Trofimena Gargano
Publishing Year 2015 Issue 2014/2
Language Italian Pages 23 P. 67-89 File size 99 KB
DOI 10.3280/INT2014-002007
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This work highlights the value of recourse to family therapy as an incubator capable of fostering the working-through of primitive parts that are blockingdevelopment in cases of anorexia where the rejection of relationships appears unyielding and the urgency of the symptoms is uncontainable. In reviewing the literature on psychoanalysis and that on family therapy, we have noted the elements making symbolization (and thus the analytical relationship) difficult for these patients and we have discussed themas they relate to the anorexic family’s mental functioning. The presentation of a clinical case has made it possible for us to describe how family therapy can function as an incubator for the purposes of developing the vital functions necessary for starting the separation-individuation process that makes family and individual mental development possible.
Keywords: Anorexia, symbolization, trans-generational, family therapy, psychoanalytic therapy.
Lara Bancheri, Trofimena Gargano, La terapia familiare come un’incubatrice che ha reso possibile lo sviluppo della mente familiare e individuale in un caso di anoressia in "INTERAZIONI" 2/2014, pp 67-89, DOI: 10.3280/INT2014-002007