Infant psychopathology during the first year of life and its return during adolescence and adulthood

ABSTRACT

This is a presentation of different clinical cases having in common severe infantile traumatic events during the first year of life. From the disappearance of mother and father during Latin-American dictatorships, to another patient who hallucinates that bats fly out of his cheeks, this paper tries to bring light into the difficult times of these patients and how the analysts worked with infantile parts of the self which were inside the adult patients.

KEYWORDS:

• Psychosis
• dictatorship
• torture
• delusion
• body hallucinations

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David Rosenfeld

David Rosenfeld, MD, trained in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and lived and studied for many years in Paris and in London, and also in the United States. He is a Consultant Professor at the Buenos Aires University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Mental Health and Psychiatry, a Training Analyst at the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Society, and an Ex-Vice President of the International Psychoanalytical Association.His awards include the President Jefferson Award from Virginia University for exceptional achievements in the field of psychoanalysis (1993), the Mary S. Sigourney Award for outstanding contribution to psychoanalysis, New York (1996), and the Hayman Prize awarded to the best published paper at the Berlin International Psychoanalytical Congress (2007).

Anne Maria Vano

Anne Maria Vano is a licensed psychologist with a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. 

Valeria Ana Penela

Valeria Ana Penela, Psy. D, Licensed Clinical Psychologist, PSY20934, Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies (LAISPS), Adjunct Faculty Antioch University and Pepperdine University.