TY - JOUR A1 - Benedetti, Gajetano A1 - Peciccia, M. T1 - The Ego Structure and the Self-Identity of the Schizophrenic Human and the Task of Psychoanalysis JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press) Vol. 7 (No. 3, April 1998), pp. 169-175. N2 - Therapeutic transformation of the otherwise splitting symbiosis, transformation of the self-object into the transitional subject and progressive psychopathology as a preliminary stage to dualisation, communication and rehabilitation are described against the background of the author's 50 years of experience of working with schizophrenic patients. In addition to good social and existential healing, the author stresses the value of the individual sessions for both therapist and patient. The author clarifies the difference between >projective identification< and >partial identification with the suffering of the patient<, the latter demonstrating the strong side of the therapist, who exerts a positive influence, converting schizophrenic symbiosis into therapeutic symbiosis. Y1 - 1998 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Peciccia, M. A1 - Benedetti, Gajetano T1 - The Integration of Sensorial Channels through Progressive Mirror Drawing in the Psychotherapy of Schizophrenic Patients with Disturbances in Verbal Language JF - The Journal of the Academy of Psychoanalysis, New York and London (The Guildford Press), Vol. 26 (No. 1, Spring 1998), pp. 109-122. Y1 - 1998 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Peciccia, M. T1 - The splitting between separate and symbiotic states of the self in the psychodynamic of schizophrenia JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Oslo (Scandinavian University Press), Vol. 5 (No. 1, March 1996), pp. 23-38. N2 - We hypothesize that, in the structure of the psychotic self, there is a disintegration between the symbiotic and separate states of the self, of which the patient is painfully aware: to use a metaphor, the light in the schizophrenic self is split: at times it is only in wave form, energy (the patient is living in disintegrated symbiosis), at others it is only matter, corpuscular (the patient is living in disintegrated separation); unfortunately, the wave and the particle are unable to produce a unitary phenomenon: the light becomes two entities. Sometimes we see the psychotic living symbiotically, we feel him to be very close to us, he tells us: >I am the moon, the sun, the universe. I am you<. At other times the patient is in his separate self but, as he is split off from the symbiotic self, his separation is extreme, it is autistic solitude: >nothing exists apart from me: the sun, the moon, the universe, are meaningless shadows which I cannot distinguish …, you are light-years away from me … you are not there<. In both of these extreme situations what seems to be missing is the boundary of separation in the state of symbiosis and the experience of symbiotic duality in the state of separation. Y1 - 1996 ER -