El caso clínico como experiencia literaria
The clinical case is the heart of the clinic. If one does not start from the history of that system of relations, any other theoretical or diagnostic intervention transforms the person into a caricature, the subject into a character and the system of relationships into a stereotype for all situations. In this singular work, Pietro Barbetta takes us into vital cases such as James Joyce's daughter, Lucia, considered crazy by the psychiatric power of her time; it interweaves psychotherapy with literature through authors such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, who connected his literary style with critical social practice (of which the therapy itself is part); talks about schizophrenia with Nadine Tabacchi, philosopher with this diagnosis; and reflects on the importance of the event or the Name as an indicator of gender in psychotherapy.
