Abstract
The paper focuses on work with a specific group of students who contact the centre because they have a restricted emotional life and encounter difficulties in their studies. At a deeper level, their problems seem to be linked to a deficit in their capacity to filter and modulate emotions. Rigid defences are therefore set up to keep their extreme anxieties at bay. Students usually seek help when the psychic costs of such a defensive apparatus become unsustainable. The clinical case of a young man suffering from a serious eye problem is described to show how the process of counselling provided him with a safe context in which he could face up to his emotions and begin to reflect upon them.
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