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Severe psychic frailty exists before the appearance of any abusive and repetitive alcoholic consumption. For this reason, a psychoanalytically-inspired research project of clinical work with projective material is currently being carried out under the auspices of the IREB (Institute of Research and the scientific study of alcoholic beverages) in order to better understand the psychic functioning of severely alcoholic patients. 18 Rorschach protocols were gathered in different treatment centers (9 men and 9 women between the ages of 33 and 69, with a mean age of 49, presenting no apparent organic pathologies). Such a sample makes it possible to do a qualitative clinical exploration of a “borderline pathology”. Besides the problematic self presentations, it was possible to bring to light certain malformations in the body image due to early fixations which create the basis for this destructive bond to alcohol. The emergence of such body language requires adjustments in the psychotherapeutic program.