ABSTRACT
In the last thirty years, we have witnessed important changes in which the world we live in has become more complex, and the forms of mental disturbance more deeply rooted and archaic. A pervasive factor that is not without effect on mental functioning derives from the ever greater influence of computer science and artificial intelligence, which offer us great advantages, but also contribute to making the
body-mind relationship in present-day humanity more complicated and problematic. Increasingly less rooted in her body and in her self, the difficult patient of today has precarious object relations that are particularly prone to superficiality, bi-dimensionality, and profound dissociations. A discontinuity among the worlds of sensations, of emotions, and of thinking quickly comes to mean that a traditional working-through ends up being impossible.
