PSYCHOTHERAPY: A CURE FOR THE FICTIONS, A FICTION THAT CURES

Abstract

Adlerian psychotherapy aims – inside the empathic relationship with the patient– at individuating and transforming the strengthened fictions, that, born as a compensation of inferiority, have become absolute laws for the patient. Empathy alone is not enough to start a disadvantageous lifestyle change; it is necessary that therapist’s mind meets the patient’s mental constructs so that a reflexive thought can be realized together. Psychotherapy, as a relationship built on patient’s need of care – an asymmetric relationship, regulated by the setting and by the theoretical reference model –, is a relational fiction useful for the cure