“A room of our own”. Interpretation and evolution of the setting with a psychotic family

Journal title INTERAZIONI
Author/s Clelia De Vita
Publishing Year 2025 Issue 2025/2
Language Italian Pages 12 P. 82-93 File size 79 KB
DOI 10.3280/INT2025-002009
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This paper focuses on the characteristics of the therapeutic relationship with psychotic families and emphasizes how interpretation is, initially, a way to contain the pressure exerted by the family on the setting; only gradually interpretation can fulfill its elaborative function. Family functioning, in fact, involves the analyst, who must accept contamination by the depersonalizing dynamic, becoming less alien and separate in order to be accepted by the family unit. Starting from this contamination, both the rules of the setting and the interpretation can be acquired as objects-found-created within the transformation of the therapeutic process. The paper presents several family sessions as examples of the complex analytic process with a psychotic family.

Keywords: family, setting, interpretation, psychological functioning, language.

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Clelia De Vita, “Una stanza tutta per noi”. Interpretazione ed evoluzione del setting con una famiglia psicotica in "INTERAZIONI" 2/2025, pp 82-93, DOI: 10.3280/INT2025-002009