Order and Chaos. Margins of “normality” between diagnosis and therapy: from the preliminary meeting to the plot of a speech to come

Authors

  • Paolo Nardi AIPG Associazione Italiana Psicologia Giuridica (Italian Society of Juridical Psychology) Rome Italy

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/2282-1619/2015.3.1106

Keywords:

Rorschach Test, Psychodiagnosis and therapy, Order and chaos, Clinical psychology and psychoanalysis

Abstract

As human beings, we are driven by two eternal feelings in perpetual fight: the search for order and the fascination of chaos. Man live inside this fight: between body and language, substance and history, soul and its biological reflections.

Every moment we act, talk, think, or dream, mirrors an experience of the present related to a given order. As Jung wrote: “there is a cosmos in every chaos and a secret order in every disorder”. Thus, Man is an entity where the being and the becoming, the endless and the ended coexist.

It is exactly the present state of the psychic life that can be subjected to a given disorder. Then the different disturbs of the various psychic functions interact in an entangled way in shaping that psychic state identified by a structural disorganization of the experience, which is pathologic.

In the therapeutic process, our “fluctuating” attention will listen to the emotions experienced by the patient, as symbolic expressions of dreamlike elements. Such attention will be put both during the diagnostic inquiry including the administration of the Rorschach Test and in the other phases of the therapeutic path. Free associations will provide the basis of both a sound shape and a visual listening of elements hanging between order and chaos, asymmetry and symmetry, past and present, inner and outer world. This should help the “person” in her/his recovering the integrity of belonging to the self: to be “soul” (psyche) of “life” (bìos).

Keywords: Rorschach Test, psychodiagnosis and therapy, order and chaos, clinical psychology and psychoanalysis.


Author Biography

  • Paolo Nardi, AIPG Associazione Italiana Psicologia Giuridica (Italian Society of Juridical Psychology) Rome Italy
    Psychologist Psychotherapist

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29-12-2015

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Vol. 3 No. 3 (2015)

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Clinical Psychology

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