SEPARATION: EXPERIENCE WITH ONCOLOGICAL PATIENT

This work concerns the application of the thoretical model of Individual Psychology and aims at developing the theme of “Separation” as characteristic of oncological patients' personal experience. We intend to represent, from a methodological point of view, the stages of the psychotherapeutic path gone through by those oncological patients who turn to UNITRE Milano Center of Psychotherapy. Observing the oncological patients who attend UNITRE Milano Center of Psychotherapy we could notice how in the oncological desease the theme of Separation is important and how it acts on relational dynamics. Especially “social feeling” is heavily damaged by escape mechanisms adopted by patients and the desease often becomes synonym for diversity, which brings to Separation. As oncological patients are prone to take the distance from the ordinary world that surrounds them, the psychotherapeutic path proposed by UNITRE Center, meant for individual or groups, is aimed at supporting the person in getting back a new capacity of planning, even if he or she is going through a painful period of his or her life. Alfred Adler says: “Who knows that he will go on living in the image ok his children and is aware of the value of his own contribution to the development of culture, is not afraid of getting old and dying” (Adler.A., 1927. Menschenkenntnis, tr.it. “La conoscenza dell'uomo nella psicologia individuale”, Newton Compton, Roma 1994) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lecture subject multiple selection possible O Separation O Trauma O Development O History of IP Technical requirements multiple selection possible O PC projection O DVD O VHS O Overhead projection