The author reported two Cases of Alopecia totalis in sisters for the purpose of evaluating their psychodynamic formulations.
The clinical evidence suggests a dynamic formulation based upon mother's ambivalence and symbolic loss at early age, subsequ...
The author reported two Cases of Alopecia totalis in sisters for the purpose of evaluating their psychodynamic formulations.
The clinical evidence suggests a dynamic formulation based upon mother's ambivalence and symbolic loss at early age, subsequent symptomatic management of the loss, and, family, collapse of the management system, precipitating the onset of rapid hair loss.
Eventually I can conclude that there is a serious difficulty in the development of the verious object relationships, a subsequently vulnerable ego structure and a recent precipitating factor.