Pathologies of emotions and the construction of a post-trauma identity

Emotions are an essential element of psychic and social life, the proper functioning of which depends on early exchanges and the various situations encountered. In particular, trauma prompts individuals to put emotions aside in order to react in the most rational way possible, and later this can result in cold and distant functioning in many situations in which emotions are important. But there are also the emotions that we forbid ourselves to feel because we were once instructed to do so, and those which we believe belong to us, when in reality they have been introduced into us, like a foreign body. Any psychotherapist may one day be confronted with these various situations and must therefore learn how to deal with them. Humor is sometimes a helpful medium.