Soares, Natalia
Running away, bodily experience and the risk of slipping into wandering
- 2022.
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From her practice as a clinical psychologist working with adolescents in residential care in France and Brazil, the author is interested in the runaway behavior and the activation of intrapsychic conflicts in the social space in which the runaway youth is placed. Two vignettes are presented in order to reflect on the intricate relationship between running away and wandering. By analysing these behaviours, we are able to identify body relative directions and the use of the body as a support in the search for their own place in social bonding.