Abstract

AZEVEDO, Guilherme Magnoler Guedes de  and  NEME, Carmen Maria Bueno. Symbiosis and psoriasis: a psychoanalytical study. Bol. - Acad. Paul. Psicol. [online]. 2009, vol.29, n.2, pp. 307-321. ISSN 1415-711X.

The present work discusses a clinical study accomplished in a Clinic of a University. The study consists of a case of psoriasis, based on the psychoanalytic theory of the primitive mental process, by Melanie Klein and the theory of the symbiotic state, by Joseph Bleger. The aim of the study is to achieve psychodynamic understanding of the illness, giving attention to the bonds relations. It is perceived that mother and child have a relationship of mutual dependency. The emerging of the illness is related to this relation. Gradual disruption of the pathological relation between mother and daughter was attempted, in order to allow them to deal with unconscious material. The results were considered satisfactory. The symptoms of psoriasis disappeared at present and the level of anxiety of both participants decrease. Since it is a disturbance of the mother-child bond, both patients were seen by the same therapist, although separately. It was concluded that treatment of diseases that are originated by problems of the mother-child bond, should consider this bond situation, and accomplish both parts involved in the relationship.

Keywords : Symbiosis; Family relations; Psychoanalysis; Psoriasis.

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