Dal disturbo di personalità al disturbo dell'umore in età di latenza

The Authors describe the symptomatologic differences registering the sense of an unelaborable loss in early ages. They recall the environment role in development and examine the different psychopathologic frameworks as characterized by the kind of defenses the patient's Ego is able to structure. The latency age is a crucial step due to the possibility of expressing an introjected depressive feeling or panic anguishes and of increasing splitting mechanisms.