Il gene nascosto. Carlo e la sua famiglia

Il gene nascosto. Carlo e la sua famiglia ABSTRACT: The article describes the clinical case of a young man (affection from Anorexia nervosa, greater depression with churns selfs-destructionist) and its family in which it flutters, of generation in generation, the ghost of the disease (Korea di Huntington). With I use it of the metaphor language and proposing the drammatizzazione of the relation they between mother puts into effect and son, the authors, stops itself on some peculiar aspects of this family: the simbiotico relationship motherson, the fear and the taboo and the shame in the cares of the HD. Key Words: Korea di Huntington, Family Therapy, Therapeutic Metaphors, Mental Anorexia.