Table 2.

Superordinate and subordinate themes.

Superordinate and Emerging Themes	Alda	Rosa	Sibilla	Maya	Arianna	Sabina	Emma	Mafalda	Barbara	Melania	Diana	Eva
Day and night, neither awake nor asleep
The terror of the partner besieges the space of the night	*	*	*		*		*			*		*
Impossible to abandon and impossible to regress	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
What state of consciousness	*	*	*	*		*	*	*			*
Anti-violence centers: Setting as a containers of emotion
The concrete in the foreground: the work on the emergency		*	*	*	*		*		*	*		*
The impotence of the psychologist	*	*	*	*	*			*			*	*
A female embrace: limit and resource	*	*	*	*				*			*
Dreaming undreamt dreams
For women it is impossible to dream	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
The image from which to escape	*		*	*			*	*	*	*	*	*
The vicarious function of the mind of the other. I am the one who dreams of the women I meet		*	*			*	*		*		*

* Indicates the frequency of the theme among participant.