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. ‘Il caso di Marcello: transfert e sviluppo della relazione analitica’ [The case of Marcello: transference and the unfolding of the analytic relationship]. Analysis: Rivista Internazionale di Psicoterapia Clinica (Milan), Year 2, No. 2, May-August 1991.
The analytic process of a male patient is hereby described, the main focus being on the phase when the transference develops and modifies itself, thus leading to a transformation of the personality, which was previously characterized by severe obsessional defences. The specific aim of the discussion is to evaluate when and what to interpret, in relation to the importance of the transferential patterns mainly regarding the role of the analyst as a container.
. ‘Madre, figlia, corpo femminile’ [Mother, daughter and female body]. La Pratica Analitica (Milan), No. 5, May 1992, pp. 57-74.
As a woman, as well as a psychologist and counsellor in the public sector and as a therapist, I am aware within myself of the hypothesis that for a woman, even more than for a man, the bodily dimension is the window onto a very particular ‘unknown’.
A woman's body is for her the privileged place for the expression of her specific feminine identity.
Her body becomes unavoidably the base for the realization of a profound exchange, affectively meaningful, in her relations with the world and with individuals.
A woman must be able to start from a basis of security and confidence in her own identity, whether psychic or corporeal, with a serene bodily image and experience.
It is essential to examine the relationship between mother and daughter, from pregnancy and birth onwards to maternity, and to study the formation of the girl-child's bodily identity.
The connecting thread of so many clinical cases is the lack of structuring of a complete feminine identity; There is a lack of love for one's own being as a woman and for one's own female body, which therefore becomes the receptacle of conflicting drives, with confused emo