Parents toxiques, addictions et psychothérapie institutionnelle

This suggests a diagnostic hypothesis of partial dysthymic psychosis, that is to say a mainly psychotic structure with elements of mania and melancholy, dominated by foreclosure and compounded by neurotic features caused by the mechanism of repression. I suggest that the structuring of the patient was heavily influenced by his parents' unconscious pact to forbid their son to be and to be born. Furthermore, the fragmented transference investments that psychotic patients tend to make without distinction towards any person who gravitates around them, as well as towards a wide range of objects, leads us to conceive the pluralistic setting of institutional psychotherapy as a setting of living objects able to pacify the internalized, noxious parents and replace the toxic, inhuman, fetishized objects.