Esperienza di psicoterapia individuale adleriana: remissione di una grave sintomatologia asmatica, interpretata come manifestazione somatica di profondi vissuti di inferiorità fraterna

Filippo Cabassi

Experience of Adlerian individual psychotherapy: remission of severe asthma symptoms, interpreted as a somatic manifestation of deep feelings of fraternal inferiority

Authors

Filippo Cabassi

Keywords:

somatization, sibiling rivalry, oppressive father figure, pathogenic family environment, traumatic bereavement, meanings of the symptom

Abstract

The article analyzes a clinical case of an adult woman with psychosomatic asthma symptoms, which appeared following a traumatic bereavement and in a family environment perceived by the patient as suffocating. The psychotherapy process is described in its various stages. The focus is on the analysis of family dynamics and the compensations put in place by the patient and her sister