Medicine, Mind and Adolescence 1998, XIII, 1-2
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CASE OF BULIMIA NERVOSA TREATED THROUGH KAIROLOGICAL
COUNSELLING
Luciano Berti1
COUNSELLING
Luciano Berti1
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Abstract
Counselling has developed according to the kairological method of evaluation and stimulation of the person’s resources (G.R. Brera , 1994), with a frequency of one meeting per week. During the counselling sessions, Roberta, the girl in the present case, showed a wide introspective and empathic capacity, along with a will to change, a “wish to be there” as an individual provided with a given identity. We acted on her leanings to Art, inciting her to revive an artistic activity that had been interrupted for more than a year, and simultaneously supporting and strengthening her in her reasons for change and self-esteem, so as to allow her to face all relapses as a signal of therapeutic evolution, as a welcome to her suffering , and not as a failure.
Key Words: bulimia nervosa , kairological counselling, identity.
1. Correspondence to: Luciano Berti MD, Endocrinologist , Adolescentologist, Via Firenze 2 , 24021 Albino (Bergamo), Italy.
E-mail : bertiluciano@tin.it
