Post-rationalist approach in a case of dissociative personality disorder

Abstract

The following clinical case was presented by Vittorio Guidano as indicative of the variety of psychopathological pictures that an organization of meaning of type D.A.P. (Disturbi Alimentari Psicogeni: eating disorders). This is a patient who manifested dissociative disorders. The clinical case was fully transcribed, from the recording of a didactic session that took place in Cagliari in May 1993, followed by a subsequent update in July of the same year. The exposition of the case shows how Vittorio Guidano worked at the critical interface between immediate experience and conscious image, increasing in the patient the capabilities of decoding the immediate experience and making the conscious image more flexible.