The interrupted body

Starting from the individual body seen as a means of relationship and exploration of the world and the development of identity, the A. goes on to read the body as a metaphor for the group and then goes on to talk about his own experience in leading a group of adults who had suffered significant physical injuries. The A. hypothesizes that these injuries can determine a fracture in self-recognition and that the work with the group has allowed to elaborate the passage from "I am no longer", felt in the post-accident, to "I am always, I can be in another way", starting from the body to find themselves again. The lack of a part of oneself (a limb) could, in the group, be elaborated in a mourning for what one was, an indispensable pre-requisite to be able to go beyond and open to the new. The A. in his article refers to Merleau-Ponty, Bion, Anzieu, Kaës and Le Breton.