Abstract

CARIAS, Antonio Richard  and  GRANATO, Tânia Mara Marques. Red rose's experience in the context of her father's alcoholism. Est. Inter. Psicol. [online]. 2020, vol.11, n.3, pp. 116-137. ISSN 2236-6407.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5433/2236-6407.2020v11n3p116.

Children of alcoholics suffer the impact of a parental relationship characterized by violence and unpredictability. The objective of this study is to illustrate the emotional experience of children of alcoholics by the emblematic account of one of the 12 participants of an empirical psychoanalytic study. A psychoanalytic interview was conducted with the participant Red Rose by means of an Interactive Narrative about the suffering of a child awaiting the arrival of the intoxicated father. Rose completed the narrative through imaginative ideas about living with the alcoholic parent. The narrative material was analyzed in the light of winnicottian psychoanalysis, resulting in four fields of affective-emotional meaning which convey the emotional experience of children of alcoholics: "Scars of Violence"; "Sovereign Desire”, “Surviving to Chaos” and “Back to my Life". The intense emotional suffering of those children who have early to take responsibilities suggests the need for further studies to subsidize practices in the context of alcoholism.

Keywords : alcohol abuse; family violence; psychoanalysis.

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