Being and doing differentiated settings: the little princess and the plant’s poison of the forest

Authors

  • Vera Lúcia Mencarelli
  • Adriana Micelli Baptista
  • Tania Maria José Aiello Vaisberg Universidade de São Paulo. Instituto de Psicologia. Departamento de Psicologia Clínica

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v22i2p319-338

Keywords:

HIV children, HIV disclosure, psychoanalytic method, differentiated setting, psychotherapeutic change

Abstract

This work investigates the mutative potential of using personalized fictional stories to reveal to children and adolescents the diagnosis of organic diseases. It is set around psychology sessions of an HIV+ adolescent which were transcribed in the form of transference narratives and examined under the Ambrosio and Vaisberg Procedure for evaluation of psychotherapeutic benefits. Adopting this procedure, it was possible to verify that the use of stories favored a mutative experience of transition from a defended and dissociated position to a more integrated and less anxious position, characterized by the possibility of greater tolerance to suffering when the option of belonging to ordinary life is offered. Clinical and reflective dialogues with Winnicot psychoanalysis finalize the text, evidencing the passage of a HIV+ diagnosis from a subjective object to an object that belongs to the shared world

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Author Biographies

  • Vera Lúcia Mencarelli
    Doutora em Psicologia Clínica pelo Instituto de Psicologia da Universidade de São Paulo
  • Adriana Micelli Baptista
    Mestre em Psicologia Clínica pelo Instituto de Psicologia da Universidade de São Paulo
  • Tania Maria José Aiello Vaisberg, Universidade de São Paulo. Instituto de Psicologia. Departamento de Psicologia Clínica
    Livre-docente do Departamento de Psicologia Clínica do Instituto de Psicologia da Universidade de São Paulo

Published

2017-10-10

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How to Cite

Mencarelli, V. L., Baptista, A. M., & Vaisberg, T. M. J. A. (2017). Being and doing differentiated settings: the little princess and the plant’s poison of the forest. Clinical Styles. The Journal on the Vicissitudes of Childhood, 22(2), 319-338. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v22i2p319-338