Citation

Houssier F, Duchet C, Chagnon JY, Robert P, Marty F. Bull. Menninger Clin. 2011; 75(1): 46-63.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Guilford Publications)

DOI

10.1521/bumc.2011.75.1.46

PMID

21500959

Abstract

On the basis of excerpts from the psychoanalytic psychotherapy of an adult patient convicted of child abuse, the authors suggest the hypothesis that the thermal metaphors that repeatedly appear in the patient's discourse are the marks of early psycho-bodily trauma. These are traces of the patient's burning incestuous relationship with his mother, which led to early fusion of his physical and psychic skins. In this clinical work the authors include the dynamics of transference.

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