A body that speaks. The role of the body in psychotherapy: the integrated psychosomatic model as a therapeutic path for patients with attachment trauma and corporal symptoms
Journal title PSICOBIETTIVO
Author/s Emanuele Alessandro Castello
Publishing Year 2025 Issue 2024/3
Language Italian Pages 14 P. 151-164 File size 171 KB
DOI 10.3280/PSOB2024-003012
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This work is the result of a process of questioning my clinical practice during the formative period of the school of psychotherapy; in particular, the case I chose to study in depth is a patient who came to me for a series of somatic symptoms and where the body immediately assumed a central importance. In particular, I wanted to highlight the role of therapeutic relationship, somatic countertransference and countertransference enactments, which assumed the function of container of “beta elements” (Bion, 1963) and the function of support in the somato-psychic regulation of the patient. This case was a substantial therapeutic challenge for me, given the various complexities that arose and the important level of somatization, which led me to question myself a lot about aspects related to the diagnosis and the setting.
Keywords: psychosomatics, relational psychotherapy, somatization, body in psychotherapy, enactment and affective regulation.
Emanuele Alessandro Castello, Un corpo che parla Il ruolo del corpo nella psicoterapia: il modello psicosomatico integrato come via terapeutica per pazienti con traumi d’attaccamento e sintomi corporei in "PSICOBIETTIVO" 3/2024, pp 151-164, DOI: 10.3280/PSOB2024-003012