ABSTRACT
Intrafamilial abuse is a traumatic event that always arises within a relationship that, even if unique and occasional, bears signs that affect the child’s evolutionary state, compromising the development of personality. The confusing and devastating attack, consumed within fundamental relational plots, leaves the image of a deformed and devaluing body; the sensations that transpire from the children’s eyes are those of not deserving anyone’s love, of not being able to love anyone, of being worth absolutely nothing. In the last decade, the fertile dialogue that Gestalt Psychotherapy has woven with the neurosciences has contributed to give more strength to the integrative holistic perspective, legitimating more and more the punctual correspondence between the many intuitions of the founders of Gestalt Psychotherapy and the actual neuroscientific research. Traumatic events cause deep and lasting changes in the states of physiological arousal, in emotions, in cognition, in memory, separating, very often, these functions that are normally integrated with each other. The clinical work must be oriented to the complexity in which it becomes fundamental, a work of stitching between sensations, emotions, and words, in order to repair those “attachments gone wrong” and allow who has been outraged in his intimacy to recover the mastery of his body and his life.
