PATIENT-THERAPIST RELATION: THE MEETING OF FICTIONS

Abstract

Comparative Individual Psychology on the one hand is proposed as a theory of the person and not as a theory of the mind, on the other hand it links to Psychiatric Clinic like a method to understand and like a therapeutic tool. In addition, it is important to remember that the theoretical assumption of the fiction, as well as others aspects of this theory, eludes the neuroscientific research. In particular, in this paper, the typology of fictions of therapist and patience is reported. Then the paper is focused on the typology of the meeting of fictions, regarding to clinical pictures of patients responsive or not to psychotherapy. In the conclusion the author describes the therapist as an “anthropological interviewer” and a “chameleon of the method” and describes the different, and sometimes transcultural, psychological-clinical interventions with a “modulated intensity”, that are sometimes focalized on relation, sometimes on the phases of the psychotherapeutic pathway, sometimes on analytic interventions.
However, the main theme of each intervention seems to lean on three theoretical-clinical assumptions that are essential to respect for the psychological-clinical interventions timetable: “as when”, “as if”, “as you are”