Case Reports | Comments
Vol. 36 No. 3 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.4081/rp.2025.1107

Commentary on the clinical case presented in: Like giving a cat its kibbles

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Published: 23 December 2025
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Daniele Rovaris
rovaris.sipre@gmail.com
Psychologist, Psychotherapist, SIPRe; Lecturer at the SIPRe Institute of Parma; Specialist in Psychodiagnostics, IRPSI (Italian Institute of Rorschach and Integrated Psychodiagnostics) and in Couple Psychotherapy, SIPRe; Senior Psychologist at the Parma Local Health Authority (AUSL), Italy.

The encounter with an adolescent is first and foremost an encounter between human beings, as I will try to address in commenting on Marco’s life story. I emphasize “life story”, thinking of Marco as a young person grappling with his first emotional investments, with the powerful and destabilizing – but also imaginative and vital – upheavals of those years of life in which falling in love, relationships, and disappointments are nothing more than opportunities to experience stepping into life, in the attempt to start from oneself, with all the fears of the unknown and of not knowing where to begin. [...]

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Commentary on the clinical case presented in: Like giving a cat its kibbles. (2025). Ricerca Psicoanalitica, 36(3). https://doi.org/10.4081/rp.2025.1107
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