Jihene Mrabet

Department of Clinical Psychology, American University in the Emirates Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Publications

• Case Studies   
  The Role of the Family Dynamic in Addiction: Trigger and Psychotherapeutic Ally
  Author(s): Jihene Mrabet*
  
  Introduction: What narcissistic foundations can we hope for when a child is born? What future hope for the evolution of his subjectivity prey to a fantasy experience of submission, domination and affective ambivalence? What place to seek for in a family dynamic that rise the older brother to the omnipotent status? What recourse to adopt in order to survive the destructiveness of internal objects, threatening and barring the road to the hallucinatory realization of the desire. Methods: These are the questions we asked ourselves when we encountered the Addiction; When we encountered Miss A in our office and started running a psychodynamic therapy. Results: The importance of object relation in addiction was highlighted through the therapeutical process. Indeed, deficient maternal countenance, distorted oedipal structu.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.3371/CSRP.MJ.020422

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