Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Reflections on the forms of psychic suffering of contemporary subject inevitably lead us to this phenomenon of compulsions, seen in current psychopathology as a mark of the culture of narcissistic excess. Faced with these pathologies of voracity, insatiability and dissatisfaction, the analyst is hard pressed to withstand high tensions while at the same time maintaining flexibility without losing the rigor and consistency of the work to be performed. The question is how to listen, understand and address complaints about compulsive and impulsive behaviors that tear families apart and break relationships at the edge of hetero and self-destructiveness? In search of what will these individuals be? Do they hunger for what? Which treatment is adequate and conducive to development and structuring psychologically to take care of these patients? The article will make a specific clipping about the toxicity of the passions understanding as a suffering through the symptom, from the psychodynamic perspective of the borderline personality.
Source: STUDIES IN HEALTH SCIENCES
DOI: 10.54022/shsv6n2-024
Authors: Mara Luiza Vieira Ceroni, Lisete Barlach
Institution: Universidade de São Paulo
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4410610901