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Somato-mental counter-transfer as a therapeutic tool for children with autism and sensory impairment

Abstract

`titrebSummary`/titrebThis text reports the experience of a psychotherapist working with deaf or blind autistic children in a day care unit. It focuses on the beginning of their meeting, when the therapist’s and the children’s bodies seem to be in the foreground. It describes how the therapist is driven by the necessity to rely on physical communication, to elaborate counter-transference. While promoting the ability to express verbally emotions and physical reactions (Aulagnier, 1975) – these children were not able to express by themselves – the therapist seeks to differenciate from children so as to restore individuality within or after the therapeutic symbiosis (Searles, 1979). This text reflects a therapeutic path that begins with a strong feeling of being invaded by the bodily relation and moves towards a more meaningful and thinkable relation mediated, at least in part, by language. It outlines landmarks and supports that affect the progression of therapy. Taking care of herself has been one of these supports, as a necessity to preserve the therapist’s psychic envelope and containing capacity.

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