The double bind between helping professions and married relations: criminological and canonical reflections from a case study

Abstract

This contribution deals with some reflections starting from an expert case study on the subject of matrimonial nullity, carried out on couples formed by at least one spouse - but sometimes by both - who carried out a profession of help, especially in the health sector (as a doctor, psychologist, nurse, social welfare operator). This is a very significant element, since, in the expert's office, on the one hand, he referred to the problem of the reasons for choosing these helping professions and, from above, demonstrated the plausible implications of the professions of help on the formation and functioning of the same nuptial couple, with all the likely consequences also in the criminological and canonical field. The motivations for choosing not only professional, but also affective-relational, especially as a couple, assume fundamental importance. In fact, when the option of professional help is dictated by individual and self-centered dynamics, rather than object and hetero-direct, the same clearly come into play not only at work, where perhaps the subject gets gratifications and awards that repair him. from wounds and shortcomings as remote as unsolved, but above all in his private life.