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The body emerging from the "neverland" of nothingness
1Italian Psychoanalytic Society. dr.riccardolombardi@libero.it
Abstract:
The author considers sensory perceptions arising from the body to be the first expressions of self-consciousness and mental existence in patients who are overwhelmed by a dimensionless abyss of nothingness. This perspective can help the analyst in catalyzing the patient's integration with his deepest levels of mental functioning. Clinical material from the four-session-per-week analysis of a psychotic patient is discussed. To this analysis and, finding the body meant finding "the land that never was," a "land" that could begin to exist in analysis thanks to a relational working through within the analytic couple.
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