THE HOLEy CHEESE. A CLINICAL CASE TREATED FROM THE HUMANISTIC INTEGRATIVE PsyCHOTHERAPy

Abstract

This article introduces Celia, a 47-year-old woman, separated, mother of three children and living halfway between Germany and Spain. She comes to therapy with an anxiogenic symptomatology, which we will soon realise to be related to an existential anguish resulting from the loss of her vital project. She has been diagnosed according to DSM, taking into consideration the difficulty of this classification in order to frame the problems of the case. However, the diagnosis with the Humanistic Integrative Psychotherapy provides us the global and concrete structure to understand Celia; letting us being aware of the richness of the model. It describes the therapeutic process that began in 2018 and lasted two years, with a variable periodicity and mainly carried out in an online modality. The relevant topics, which specific interventions were conducted in, are explained; and some remarkable sessions of the process are also detailed, which lets us have a global vision of the therapeutic work.