ABSTRACT
In the methodological perspective, the therapist is faced with the not always easy task of continuing to think as a psychoanalyst in spite of the real traumatic events suffered by the patient, in terms of the patient’s unconscious dynamics in the transference, while also considering his infantile world—and, especially, to be able to bring to a verbal level the terrible traumatic experience of a child under 2 years of age, who was handed over to a neighbour while his parents were being kidnapped by military personnel and then taken to secret centres of detention and torture. The traumatic stress for a child, unprepared to anticipate danger, faced with the terrible, abrupt disappearance of his mother’s and father’s familiar voices and faces, is very difficult to work through. The childhood and family history came up in the sessions in a confused, disordered way and was sometimes enacted during the session without words.
