“DISSOCIAL FEELING”: THEORETICAL AND CLINICAL ASPECTS, THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTIONS

Abstract

The term “dissocial feeling” does not exist in the Individual Psychology. We can describe it as a failure of social interest, related to many factors. As the social feeling, the “dissocial feeling” can follow different ways and lead to a specific style of life. We hypothesize three main directions corresponding to social and cultural adaptation or not: the first is called under-age dissociality, the second coincide with the psychopatology and the third is equivalent to the criminality. From a therapeutic point of views, social, clinical and legal strategies are essential.
Only with these approaches, it is possible to realize interventions that set a therapeutic life style against the “dissocial feeling”. Therapy includes different components: psychopharmacology, individual and group psychotherapy, rehabilitation, pedagogy, psychoeducation, communities and residential structures, counseling and family interventions