Data di Pubblicazione:
2011
Citazione:
Fragments of Sisters in the Mind : The Double Bind and Attacks on Thinking / C. Bressi. ((Intervento presentato al convegno EFPP & PTPP Conference - Siblings : Rivalry and Envy – Coexistence and Concern tenutosi a Krakow nel 2011.
Abstract:
The analytic process with A., a 28-year-old borderline woman, is described in
the paper. The patient, three years into treatment, initially presented difficulties
in speaking, as “the effort to think, before speaking, is too much, and makes me
confused”.
A. has two sisters (2 and 4 years older) who were always used by mother
to neglect the subjective experience of the patient’s self. The relations among
the sisters are described by the mother (with whom A. maintains a dependent
relationship) in terms of negative primary injunction (“you’re bad if you don’t
do this for your sister”) followed by a secondary injunction opposite to the first
one, and involving the affective dimension (“I love you and you shouldn’t have
done what your sister wanted”). Due to the psychological dependency, A. cannot
choose to part from the confusional relationship with her mother (double bind).
Consequently an attack on thinking occurs when A. tries to use her affects and
turn them into thoughts. The patient perceives herself as torn by persecutory and
contradictory internal objects: “bad, anxious, scared, full of rage”. A.’s experience,
worked through in the transference/countertransference, represents a terrifying
and chaotic flood of affects that threatens psychic equilibrium: the dissociative
capacity of the mind is used as a primary defense. Excerpts from sessions
illustrate the current analytic process ( projective identification and enactments
especially) that has allowed A. to express herself, enabling to get her close to her
affects without attacking thoughts, portions of reality and the relationships with
her sisters.
Tipologia IRIS:
14 - Intervento a convegno non pubblicato
Elenco autori:
C. Bressi
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