The author experienced a therapeutic relationship with a patient of severe identity confusion in an adoptee of 17 year-old high school boy.
His major psychopathology revealed a severe depersonalization, regressive behavior as well as grandiose ideati...
The author experienced a therapeutic relationship with a patient of severe identity confusion in an adoptee of 17 year-old high school boy.
His major psychopathology revealed a severe depersonalization, regressive behavior as well as grandiose ideations.
In his fugue state during acute psychotic break, he wandered around seeking for his 'true parents' and uttered himself several 'incomprehensible remarks', which were characterized by severe time diffusion, and historical as well as geographical dislocation.
He had been separated and uprooted from his biological mother in his earliest year of age, and was adopted to his present family with his natural father and foster mother as an eldest grand-son of his family tree.
Due to deceptive and secretive family atmosphere with rejecting mother and distant father, he had been deserted since childhood.
In his understanding of the identity of the patient, the auther tried to delineate the identity fragments of his father and foster mother.
Finally, the author attempted to interpret the contents of the patient's depersonalization phenomena in terms of individual, family dynamics and societal changes.