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Avances en Psicología Latinoamericana
Print version ISSN 1794-4724
Abstract
KLAUTAU, Perla; WINOGRAD, Monah and CAMPOS, Flávia Sollero-De-. Eat to exist: trauma, orality and Selfs bondaries. Av. Psicol. Latinoam. [online]. 2013, vol.31, n.3, pp.522-531. ISSN 1794-4724.
Our objetctive is to investigate forms of organization of the self derived from the experience of crossing traumatic situations. The starting point was the treatment of a young woman that, after having suffered cranioencephalic trauma, developed compulsion for eating sweets and talking. This can be a resource in face of traumatic experiences that break a protecting layer and, thus, the contours of the self. To reduce anguish derived from the sensation of a broken self, eating can be an attempt to exist, in other words, to construct boundaries capable of providing consistency to the self.
Keywords : trauma; self; orality; compulsion.