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1Italian Psychoanalytic Society, Rome, Italy.
Abstract:
In the course of the psychiatrist-patient relationship, and especially during a psychotherapy, an image sometimes appears that is greeted by the therapist with a sense of surprise and rediscovery. Such an image has the quality of condensing many of the scattered elements of the patient's life and giving them a form that makes it possible to recognise something stable and permanent in the functioning of the patient's subjectivity. I propose to call these images, which have a valence of enlightenment, clarification and condensation of scattered elements, structuring images. I have used the term 'epiphany' to define these moments of enlightenment, which are of great help in psychiatric and psychotherapeutic work, contributing to a new construction of the history and relationships of the patient's life.
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