title: A skin on fire: the link between thermal metaphors and early trauma in a case of pedophilia.
abstract: On the basis of excerpts from the psychoanalytic psychotherapy of an adult patient convicted of child abuse, the authors suggest the hypothesis that the thermal metaphors that repeatedly appear in the patient's discourse are the marks of early psycho-bodily trauma. These are traces of the patient's burning incestuous relationship with his mother, which led to early fusion of his physical and psychic skins. In this clinical work the authors include the dynamics of transference.
authors.affiliation: Paris Descartes University, Laboratory of Clinical Psychology and Psychopathology, France. florian.houssier@parisdescartes.fr
authors.forename: Florian
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Houssier
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Duchet
authors.forename: Jean-Yves
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Chagnon
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Robert
authors.forename: Francois
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Marty
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D054523:Adult Survivors of Child Abuse / Q000523:psychology*; D002056:Burns; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000523:psychology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D010378:Pedophilia / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D012867:Skin / Q000503:physiopathology; D014110:Touch; D014167:Transference, Psychology