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Vol. 37 No. 1 (2026)
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Published: 30 April 2026
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Luca’s case illustrates the paradox of an adaptation that masks a complex relational void. Although the Author employs cognitive (Schema Therapy) and trauma-informed (Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment; TIST) lenses, a psychoanalytic-relational reading allows the symptomatology to be understood not only as a malfunction of the defensive system, but as the eruption of a non-integrated Self, whose roots lie in the very earliest relational exchanges with primary caregivers. [...]
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Comment. (2026). Ricerca Psicoanalitica, 37(1). https://doi.org/10.4081/rp.2026.1166
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