Abstract

We will describe in two articles (“Sense of self and psychosis”, 1 and 2) the theoretical basis and the methodology of a new therapeutic group approach called amniotic therapy, which aims to improve the sense of self of psychotic patients. In this first article we explore the role of the surface of the body and its early sensorimotor interactions in the processes of self/other identification and differentiation. We propose that these processes have common origins, the body surface and its interactions, but different destinies, depending on where the body’s surface is projected. When it is projected intrapsychically we have differentiation, and when it is projected externally onto the body’s surface of the other, we have identification. Identification is a reciprocal process, in which the self’s and the other’s surfaces mutually contain each other and co-create a shared field. The neural correlates of identification and differentiation are discussed. The second article, which follows, describes amniotic therapy and explores a single case study.

摘要

我们将在两篇文章（“自我意识和精神病”，1 和 2）中描述一种称为羊膜治疗的新治疗组方法的理论基础和方法，旨在改善精神病患者的自我意识。在第一篇文章中，我们探讨了身体表面的作用及其早期感觉运动相互作用在自我/他人识别和分化过程中的作用。我们认为这些过程有共同的起源，即身体表面及其相互作用，但命运不同，这取决于身体表面的投影位置。当它投射到内心时，我们就有了分化，而当它从外部投射到另一个人的身体表面时，我们就有了认同。识别是一个相互的过程，自我和对方的表面相互包容，共同创造一个共享场。讨论了识别和分化的神经相关性。接下来的第二篇文章描述了羊水治疗并探讨了一个案例研究。