Seminar IAFP Member - Massimo Di Mari

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Working every day with violent patients in the prison system is not an easy task, especially in an institution where individuals who have just committed a crime and are awaiting trial are confined. These are often people experiencing prison for the first time, a large percentage of whom are non-EU citizens and drug addicts. The psychiatrist's first task is to treat symptoms of anxiety, depression, and opioid withdrawal. Only then is it possible to work in a more therapeutic way with a view to rehabilitation and reintegration into society. At this point, other difficulties arise that are part of the psychoanalyst's work: the difficult search for the psychic truth and the mind’s symbolic function against defence mechanisms, fighting with incoherent laws and psychotic environmental dynamics. I would like to share some reflections that I have written over the last two years, in which I have attempted to focus on some of these dynamics through clinical cases and theoretical references drawn from psychoanalysis and Greek tragedy. I will be very interested in discussing with those who participate and wish to share their experiences and points of view on these issues.