Adlerian considerations on psychoanalytic psychotherapy conducted with an adolescent. Analysis and comparison of the two interpretative methods

Abstract

The need to exchange opinions and find collaboration between psychotherapists with different training backgrounds is particularly evident when exceptional situations arise that no single model, however flexible, can respond to. This paper examines the clinical case of a patient suffering from leukemia, which forces him to undergo continuous and prolonged hospitalizations. Given the impossibility of maintaining a consistent setting, it was necessary to consider a particular setting, rarely described in the literature: interanalysis. This term does not refer to a competitive comparison, but rather to the attempt to provide the patient with a method that one person alone cannot develop, even if the therapeutic relationship must always respect the criterion of a precise operational duality: patient-analyst. Finally, we propose a reflection on the opportunities for dialogue between different schools of psychotherapy