Benvenuti P, Marchetti G, Niccheri C, Pazzagli A
Dipartimento Scienze Neurologiche e Psichiatriche, Università di Firenze, Italia.
Psychopathology. 1995;28(2):78-84. doi: 10.1159/000284904.
The psychosis of fatherhood is classified as an acute delusional disorder. It has been psychodynamically correlated with preoedipal conflicts. Common elements were identified in 6 men who were about to become fathers for the first time. Their personal histories and their clinical pictures were very similar. It is our hypothesis that up to the moment of facing the impact of becoming fathers themselves, these subjects had managed to avoid the oedipal conflict. As a consequence of this avoidance, they failed to identify with the father figure and to incorporate the paternal function into their symbolic universe. Once they accepted the concrete reality of fatherhood, these men underwent an acute psychotic crisis having inadequately interiorized paternal role models for themselves. We believe that this sort of psychopathological behavior becomes clinically manifest only when triggered by impending fatherhood.
初为人父引发的精神错乱被归类为急性妄想障碍。从心理动力学角度来看，它与前俄狄浦斯期冲突相关。在6名首次即将为人父的男性身上发现了共同特征。他们的个人经历和临床症状非常相似。我们的假设是，在面对自己即将成为父亲这一影响之前，这些受试者成功避免了俄狄浦斯冲突。由于这种回避，他们未能认同父亲形象，也未能将父性功能纳入其象征世界。一旦他们接受了为人父的具体现实，这些男性就会经历急性精神病危机，因为他们自身未能充分内化父亲角色模型。我们认为，这种精神病理行为只有在即将为人父这一情况的触发下才会在临床上显现出来。
