A Survivor of the Nova Festival: A Therapeutic Process Within the Relational Psychoanalytic Approach

Abstract

This paper examines the treatment of complex post-trauma through a relational approach that facilitates the rehabilitation of internal home feelings, the internal representation of the mother, coping with survivor's guilt through empathy, and the internal resonance experience of the therapist. It highlights the therapist's participation and creativity, which allowed her to "break through" conventional psychoanalytic boundaries for the sake of closeness and reciprocal identification: therapist – patient.