A Case Study: A Clinical Neuropsychoanalytic Treatment of Functional Neurological Disorder in a Patient with Post-COVID Complications

This presentation describes the process and outcome of a neuropsychoanalytic treatment. The patient involved was initially referred for psychoanalytic psychotherapy by her neurologist because she manifested with a post-COVID functional neurological disorder (with multiple sensory and motor symptoms and non-epileptic seizures). While the patient’s conversion symptoms responded to the psychoanalytic treatment; her chronic post-COVID fatigue syndrome did not respond. The implications of the mechanisms which this case study uncovered will also be considered in relation to treatment; technique; and training; as well as in relation to the generalization of the principles involved to all patients with “long COVID”.