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The use of sculpturation in family therapy: Reversals within the addict family

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As a clinician working in an addiction prevention and treatment center, I became interested in family therapy with patients suffering from drug and/or alcohol abuse and dependency. I wondered about the family contexts that might increase substance use among youth and I discovered Dan Siegel’s Interpersonal Neurobiology which provides a new model of human development. Mind and self-construction are an embodied and relational emergent process that regulates the flow of energy and information. Attachments and close relationships shape who we are. The role of a caregiver is to support a child transform sensations or perceptive-motor impressions into representations of things. This is how a human being constitutes himself and develops his subjectivity through the caregiver's feedback. Sometimes the caregiver is not receptive. He or she may be going through a difficult experience that deprives him/her of psychic availability for the child (mourning, violent relationship with the spouse, etc.) or having difficulty accessing his/her child's subjectivity because of a weak narcissism. Adolescence is the period during which the process of subjectivation is important. Difficulty in self-awareness or in considering one's own needs can generate a feeling of emptiness that the adolescent will probably try to fill with addictive behaviors. As a family therapist, my role is to help parents to better appreciate the subjectivity of their child and to reverse from an autic mastery state to an alloic sympathy state. The therapist will help the addict person to better address his or her needs, to overcome destructive loyalties and thus to reverse from an alloic mastery to an autic sympathy state in the context of parent-child relationships. Therefore, our hypothesis is that the addict person is stuck in an alloic state, which contrasts with the results of Cardénal et al. (2007). Our study aims to investigate these hypotheses through family therapy sessions. Discourse analysis and the use of systemic techniques such as sculpting will allow us to qualify the alloic state of the addicted subject based on the trends in family therapy (Minuchin, Boszormenyi-Nagy, etc.).
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hal-04278266 , version 1 (09-11-2023)

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Nathalie Duriez. The use of sculpturation in family therapy: Reversals within the addict family. Conférence internationale de la Théorie du Renversement, Laboratoire Psychopathologie et Processus de Changement; Reversal Theory Society, Jun 2022, Saint-Denis (univ. Paris 8), France. ⟨hal-04278266⟩
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