The systemic symptom and its institutional aggravation. How to use conscious purpose to make a project fail

In this article, the constitution of the symptom is read through the clinical case I will call Frankenstein Junior. Junior because he is a minor in the transition period to adulthood, Frankenstein, because his symptoms seem to be manipulated in a hetero-poietic way by the external reactions of health care institutions and a trigenerational history in which nobody, among the same institutions, seems interested. Frank's symptoms seem to recapitulate an ancient history. But health institutions are not interested in history, they seem blind in the difficult task of reconstructing the origins of the symptom. In parallel, my contribution starts from the psychoanalytic origins of the systemic approach of the Milan school founded by Luigi Boscolo and Gianfranco Cecchin in the 1970s, with reference to Gregory Bateson's anthropological approach.