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The author presents a long analysis of a patient, Giulia, whose obstinate will to achieve evokes the workings of alchemical sulphur at its fieriest and a dread of its coniunctio with alchemical salt. Jung's description of these symbols in Mysterium Coniunctionis offers a useful imaginal perspective to clinical work in the area of compulsion and its possible transformations. Right from the start, the analytic relationship appeared to be mirrored and affected by this alchemical perspective. However, it was only after much time, uncertainty and emotional endurance that a fuller psychological experience of sulphur and salt could be accessed, allowing the analysis to take a more imaginative and mercurial turn. In the course of his work with Giulia the author has witnessed and experienced a range of intense affects—the many colours that the combustion of sulphur can generate—whether on the verge of unstoppable creation or ruthless destruction, often of archetypal intensity. This experience has been lived through and has undergone a transformative relation with salt, which until then had lived a dissociated existence in the fixed trauma of the compulsion and in a nocturnal underworld of tears. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objectives: To establish the unfortunate influences of a violent, macho and corrupt environment on the patient (J), approximately forty years old, who, together with her family, was subjected to threats and persecution which forced them to move. Methodology: Psychoanalytic treatment of one year in psychoanalysis, four sessions a week and with the need to move since she worked in her city and had to travel every week to attend the sessions. Psychoanalysis focused on the countertransferential difficulties experienced. Results and Conclusions: Through the psychoanalytic work, after six months the emotional state and nightmares improved and the beginning of reparative functioning was detected in the oneiric material. Some conclusions were reached about aspects that influence violence in Colombia: machismo, fanaticism and corruption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There has been an ongoing debate regarding the scienti!c status of psychoanalysis, its research methods, and knowledge production. From a pluralist perspective of science, it is argued that research methods and instruments need to be adequate to the speci!city of the object of study. Thus, from an ontological point of view, psychoanalysis is based on a conception of the psychic that presupposes a divided, con#ictual and defended subject. Based on an ongoing conceptual research of the clinical use of the concept of countertransference, we sought to construct a device appropriate to the phenomenon under research, using a psychoanalytically informed methodolo'. We used the Free Association Narrative Interview (FANI) and the dynamics established in the research group during the analysis of the material to gain access to the implicit meanings of the concept. The processes underlying the procedure used for analysing the interviews were discussed and explained using Bion's theory of thinking, namely the concepts of negative capacity, alpha dream work and selected fact. This paper aims to make theoretical and methodological contributions to the clari!cation of research in psychoanalysis outside the analytic room. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The term primary subjectivity of the analyst, proposed and developed in the study, analytically highlights and conceptualizes a speci!c type of subjectivity of the analyst, present in the analytical !eld, whose nature is absolutely idiosyncratic and original. This factor originates from and incessantly feeds back the primary psychic matrix of the analyst, while it co-creates the intersubjective analytic third; its essential qualities are uniqueness, the character of being diverse from the patient's subjectivity, and alterity, the character of being external, and of existing, to some extent, independently of the patient's subjectivity. From an intrasubjective perspective, the concept of the analyst's primary subjectivity is elaborated, in the study, through the notion of founding and determining attributes of the analyst's subjectivity; from an intersubjective perspective, it leads to nosological proposals of creative, foreign and vicious countertransference. The coinage and prospection of this terminolo' inaugurate a line of conceptual research on the analyst's subjectivity and are intended to pave the way for further studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Resumo O propósito deste artigo é refletir sobre os conceitos de transferência e contratransferência, articulando-os com a dimensão clínica do lugar do observador no trabalho em grupos terapêuticos. Inicialmente, será feito um percurso histórico sobre tais conceitos na psicanálise. Posteriormente, a noção de transferência será discutida como um vínculo que pode se manifestar pela via da expressão corporal e sensorialidade, enquanto a contratransferência será analisada a partir do campo da intersubjetividade. Esses aspectos serão ilustrados por duas vinhetas clínicas.

This paper describes a method for investigating clinical process, Layered Analysis, which combines therapist countertransference reports and multi‐faceted microanalytic research approaches. Findings from the application of Layered Analysis to video‐recorded micro‐events of rupture and repair in four psychoanalytic parent–infant psychotherapy sessions are presented. Layered analysis showed that countertransference and observation are complementary perspectives, which enable concomitant study of interactive events, conscious internal experiences, as well as nonconscious and unconscious elements of therapeutic interaction. Interactional rupture and repair were found to constitute co‐constructed micro‐events that occurred fleetingly and often implicitly, and differed in the structure, coherence and flow of interactions and in the relationship between verbal and nonverbal communication. Furthermore, interactional ruptures were found to sometimes 'get into' the therapist and transiently disrupt their self‐organization, such that the therapist became a locus of disruption for the patient(s), actively contributing to the rupture, which thus became embedded in the therapeutic system. Interactive repair was found to be most often initiated by the therapist and to be underpinned by the therapist re‐establishing self‐regulation, through metabolizing embodied and verbal aspects of the rupture. Studying such processes can enhance our understanding of clinical process, inform therapist training and clinical supervision, and contribute to clinical outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

O objetivo deste artigo é examinar os múltiplos sentidos atribuídos à noção de neutralidade analítica. Tal palavra foi usada pela primeira vez por Strachey na tradução inglesa do texto “Observações sobre o amor transferencial” e emergiu nas discussões clínicas dos pós-freudianos e psicólogos do ego sobre abstinência e contratransferência. Em seguida, uma investigação sobre a história do movimento psicanalítico brasileiro demonstra, mediante notícias e relatos do Caso Amílcar Lobo, candidato a analista envolvido com a tortura política, que a noção de neutralidade foi empregada para ocultar a omissão das instituições nacionais e internacionais frente à violência de Estado durante a ditadura militar. Defendemos a importância de entrelaçar ambas as perspectivas teórica e sociopolítica para considerar a questão da neutralidade com a devida complexidade.

In this article the author seeks to revisit meanings attributed to the concept of countertransference in the writings of paradigmatic authors on this topic, emphasizing the approaches of each thinker to the factor of the analyst's own personal subjectivity. The concept of the primary subjectivity of the analyst, coined by the author to refer to a specific type of subjectivity of the analyst characterized by singularity (the character of being singular, different from the subjectivity of the patient) and alterity (the character of being other, external and existing, to some extent independent of the subjectivity of the patient), is at once differentiated from and connected to the concept of countertransference. Following a linear chronology in psychoanalysis, the writings of Freud, Ferenczi, Racker, Heimann, Little, Barrangers and Bion are commented, complemented by an examination of the tertiary phenomenon in Green and Ogden. The article highlights conceptual nuances of each author that often escape the necessary generalizations incurred by the transgenerational transmission of psychoanalytic theory and, in a complementary way, proposes some reflections on the presence of idiosyncratic subjective factors of the analyst in the analytical field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article describes Sándor Ferenczi's last considerations on the metapsychology of trauma. The authors synthetically analyze the main texts written by the Hungarian psychoanalyst from 1928 until his death in 1933, including a short summary of The clinical diary (1932/1988), published posthumously. Also presented are some conclusions that refer to Ferenczi's highly probable influence on the theoretical and technical corpus of contemporary psychoanalysis, especially contributions related to countertransference and intersubjectivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article proposes a paradigm shift in the interpretation of dreams, moving from a symbolic approach to a pragmatic one. The importance of considering the psychoanalytic relationship and the uses given to the act of recounting a dream in a session is highlighted. Authors Donald Meltzer and Masud Khan are mentioned, who propose different approaches to dream interpretation. The article concludes that dream interpretation should broaden its scope to include not only symbolic content, but also relational and pragmatic meanings. [Extracted from the article]

This article presents interspersed fragments of a clinical case and a brief history of technical and conceptual modifications related to intersubjective phenomena in psychoanalysis. Countertransference, reverie, and the analyst's own psychic functioning are highlighted, understanding them as important events for communication in psychoanalytical practice. To this end, the ideas of André Green, Thomas Ogden, Michel De M'Uzan and Giuseppe Civitarese are discussed, among other authors of contemporary psychoanalysis. The intrapsychic and intersubjective aspects of care connect and give voice to the psychological chimera (M'Uzan, 1978 and 1994), the analytic third (Ogden, 1994), the somatic reverie (Civitarese, 2016), and the corporeal effects of verbal and nonverbal communication (Civitarese, 2010, 2016 and Coelho Junior, 2010). The essay also seeks to understand and conceptualize the psychic paths (including the corporeal, imagery, affective, protosymbolic and symbolic levels) of the work of "digestion" and comprehension of this experience. The essay follows the complex elaboration - conscious and unconscious, verbal and nonverbal - that results in the transformation of the reverie into symbolic elements and their communication to the analysand. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The object takes the place of the ego ideal for the lover (Freud). Lacan, through Plato's Banquet shows the two places in love. On the lover's side it is the patient with the lack; on the side of the beloved, it is the analyst with the power, the ideal of the ego... The early lost ideals of the ego ideal are projected onto the figure of the analyst. If the analyst is confused by self with the ideal of the ego he will only want to have the submission of the patient; the self-suggestion to the transference will make the analysis a waking hypnosis. There is a total abandonment of ideals in that ancient and humble Freudian goal: "To turn neurotic misery into common misfortune. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper begins by questioning why the concept of intuition is not part of Freud's metapsychology. After conducting research, the author hypothesizes that Freud, who was concerned about making psychoanalysis a credible science, different from all others, did not formulate the concept, which was already being used and deepened by philosophers at the time. With Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), psychoanalysis emerges as a method of psychic treatment and investigation of the unconscious. Freud considers dreams as the real way of accessing the unconscious. Later, Melanie Klein (1946) introduced the concept of projective identification, while Donald Winnicott (1956) described the analytic relationship as being similar to the mother/baby relationship. Wilfred Bion (1962), integrating the theories of both Klein and Winnicott, describes the concept of rêverie, further integrating the notion of intersubjectivity into psychoanalysis. André Green (1989), describes the concept of tiercéité, later developed by Thomas Ogden (1994) to refer to the analytic third party, illustrating how, in the analytic relationship, both analyst and analysand are modified by their joint experience of the dyad. From this perspective, the author considers the psychoanalyst's intuition as an unconscious mechanism resulting from intersubjectivity within the dyad, and which currently warrants its integration in the Dictionary of Psychoanalysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this article is to examine the multiple meanings attributed to the notion of analytical neutrality. Such a word was used for the first time by Strachey in the English translation of the text "Observations on Transference-Love" and emerged in post-Freudians and Ego psychologists' clinical discussions about abstinence and countertransference. A subsequent investigation into the history of Brazilian's psychoanalytical movement demonstrates, through news items and published reports of the Amílcar Lobo Case, analyst candidate involved with political torture, that the notion of neutrality was employed to conceal the omission of national and international institutions towards State violence during the military dictatorship. We defend the importance of interlacing both theoretical and sociopolitical perspectives to consider the issue of neutrality with appropriate complexity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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El objetivo de este trabajo es articular un diálogo tentativo entre las propuestas del psicoanálisis relacional en torno a la naturaleza de la contratransferencia y el uso de esta en la promoción del cambio terapéutico y ciertos desarrollos humanistas-existenciales acerca de la autenticidad y la autodevelación del terapeuta. En primer lugar, se repasa la evolución del concepto de la contratransferencia en psicoanálisis, para luego ahondar en ciertas propuestas relacionales a propósito del abordaje clínico de la misma. En segundo lugar, se revisan los conceptos de autenticidad y autodevelación en la tradición humanista-existencial, enfatizando sus coincidencias con el pensamiento relacional contemporáneo.

In this lecture, I wish to speak about the faithless analyst. This is an analyst without fixed religious notions, without specific preferences with regard to religious faith and practice, without religious commitments or attachments of the kind that would influence the course of the analysis. Is this possible? Analysts like everyone else grow up in specific cultures that are deeply entangled with religious traditions. Can analysts shed this formation when they enter the consulting room? Should they? Values come with religious faith and practice. Should the analyst shed such religiously based values for the sake of absolute neutrality? I want to think about such faithlessness as an impossible ideal for analytical practice and how to work with failures to remain faithless in the presence of different faiths or the absence of faith among patients., (© 2024 The Society of Analytical Psychology.)

A partir da ideia de que na clínica dos casos-limite o analista precisa permitir-se entrar em contato com sua contratransferência, de maneira a utilizar-se dela para produzir uma técnica e adaptar-se ao seu caso clínico, indagamo-nos se nossos processos de transmissão em psicanálise, em especial a supervisão, estão preparados para essa realidade. Para isso, buscamos compreender como era pensada a supervisão desde a Escola Húngara de Psicanálise até autores contemporâneos que trabalham com fenômenos como reflection process e parallel process. Dessa forma, chegamos a psicanalistas que apostam que, por meio da regressão em supervisão, vinculada ao ponto de identificação do caso, poderia produzir-se um lugar mais empático do analista em relação ao seu paciente. Por fim, trazemos um rápido exemplo de uma supervisão clínica para ilustrar um início de entendimento a respeito da proposta apresentada.

This article explores the relationship between music and psychoanalysis, using the analogy of music concerts. The importance of musical listening as a methodological tool in psychoanalytic training is highlighted, where psychoanalysts and candidates listen to musical compositions and explore the emotions they evoke. It is concluded that this creative exercise expands analytic listening and promotes the use of countertransference. Additionally, the importance of imagination and creativity in psychoanalysis is mentioned, as well as the use of music and other forms of art in analytic work. [Extracted from the article]

The following article has the purpose to show through a clinical case how the dynamic of the transference-countertransference can become a refugee for the ego. In this dynamic, the patient as well as the analyst participate, which can lead to the illusion of a psychoanalytical process without major complications. The content of the aforementioned dynamic lies in the narcissistic defense against the sexual difference, and his discover occurs inside the retroactive temporality --nachträglichkeit--. In that sense, the scene of the analysis works as a quiet and pleasant place, which undercovers another unpleasant scene related to the genital phase. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A partir do “caso Ferenczi”, como identificado em um texto de sua paciente/analista, Elizabeth Severn, o artigo apresenta e desenvolve três questões pertinentes à psicanálise contemporânea: uma crítica à ênfase na leitura diagnóstica, em especial quando normatizadora; a criação de espaços intersubjetivos em análise, e sua dimensão potencial; e a maneira como a “loucura”, uma vez compartilhada, é psiquicamente mobilizadora e permite a emergência de conteúdos relevantes tanto para o paciente como para o analista. Discute-se se possibilidade de adotar uma posição não normativa frente aos elementos disruptivos do psiquismo do outro não seria, ao menos em parte, resultado da capacidade do analista em transitar por entre fragmentos de seu próprio psiquismo.

Based on the idea that in the clinic of limit cases, the analyst needs to allow him/herself to contact his/her countertransference, in order to use it to produce a technique and adapt him/herself to the clinical case, we ask ourselves if our transmission processes in psychoanalysis, especially supervision, are prepared for this reality. For this, we seek to understand how supervision used to be thought over the time, from the Hungarian School of Psychoanalysis throughout the contemporary authors, who work with phenomena such as reflection process and parallel process. In this way, we come to psychoanalysts who bet that, through the regression in supervision, connected to the case's point of identification, it would be possible to produce some more empathic place for the analyst in relation to his/her patient. Finally, we show a quick example of clinical supervision to illustrate a beginning of understanding regarding the presented proposal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Resumo Pacientes com transtorno de personalidade borderline (TPB) são tipicamente instáveis e intensos em seus afetos e comportamentos, facilmente despertando reações emocionais negativas em seus terapeutas. Desse modo, manejar a contratransferência é fundamental para a psicoterapia com esses pacientes. Este estudo de caso sistemático visa descrever as manifestações contratransferenciais no processo terapêutico do primeiro ano de uma terapia psicanalítica de uma paciente com TPB, ampliando o conhecimento empírico sobre como a contratransferência interage com as variáveis do paciente. As sessões (n = 59) foram codificadas por duplas de juízes independentes treinados com o Psychotherapy Process Q-Set (PQS), um q-sort de 100 itens que fornece descrição das variáveis do paciente, do terapeuta e da interação terapêutica que caracterizam o tratamento. Experts em psicoterapia psicanalítica selecionaram seis itens do PQS como indicadores de reações contratransferenciais e 12, como indicadores de estados mentais e comportamentos característicos de pacientes com TPB. Esses itens foram examinados em relação ao tempo. Os achados revelam a predominância de atitudes terapêuticas compatíveis com uma contratransferência positiva. As implicações clínicas dos achados são discutidas.

One of the groups of the project “ALETHEIA: Arts and Art Therapy as an approach to trauma and emotional memory” focuses on investigating how art therapy can improve the well-being of children in the hospital setting. For pediatric patients, the disease and medical experiences can be experienced as a traumatic experience, which will have consequences on their emotional development. This article does not address the whole of the research, but the difficulties in the therapeutic relationship with a pediatric hemodialysis patient. The article is narrated in the first person in the form of an autoethnographic narrative and focuses on the countertransference experienced by the art therapist, with the purpose of showing the difficulties and mistakes arising in the process, thus making visible the reality of the work and the complexity of the cases of trauma.

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This paper is based on one idea and built around one clinical experience that helped me to broaden my comprehension of it. The idea, underlying the work of several authors, is that when the analytic field is saturated with primitive and unintegrated mental contents, the analyst's somatic countertransference is a precious indicator of a deep, dissociated form of communication. The clinical experience concerns the difficult elaboration of a complex, multifaceted countertransference that took place during the early stages of the analysis of a sensitive patient who used to communicate in a very dissociated way and that I found hard to contain. This experience, closely described in the article, led me to formulate the clinical idea that the transference field may be made of distinct layers (psychoid, affective, verbal), and that each one of them may potentially convey dissociated, even contrasting bits of information. The corollary of this is that the analyst should be ready to accept contrasting sensations, feelings and thoughts at the same time, as they might be the basic ingredients of a complex reverie. The analyst could find himself/herself in front of his/her own internal unelaborated multiplicity before a symbolic image may emerge to link the scattered pieces of the experience. Nevertheless, the heart of this paper is not about suggesting an idea, but in the sharing of a complex working through, which fostered the birth of a new, more human relational perspective: the capacity of being together in time, in a transitional space where there is neither total separation nor fusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Nesse artigo buscamos entender a continuidade das proposições teórico-clínicas de Winnicott e Ogden, que incluem a contratransferência no processo analítico do paciente, e mais, o psiquismo do analista em sua parte mais inconsciente. Essas proposições implicariam um entendimento intersubjetivo do enquadre, produzindo uma nova maneira de enxergar a relação analítica e, consequentemente, a técnica. Escolhemos o termo “espaço-entre” para nomear tais propostas, pois concluímos que um outro lugar ou processo é produzido no encontro analítico. Esse lugar não é nem do analista, nem do paciente, mas de ambos. Tal encontro produziria um inconsciente do vínculo, capaz de gerar trabalho psíquico e gerar efeitos importantes.

The archetypal images of separation and dissociation are very present in Jung's model of individuation, and Jung proposed a dynamic relationship between conscious and unconscious parts of the psyche of analyst and analysand. In addition, numerous contemporary authors emphasize the multiplicity of the self and the emergence of the field created by both participants, allowing for symbolization and transformation. I describe here my attempts to reach the encapsulated psychic split of a client. Defeated in my search for any conscious, developed self-state that could readily match his, I had to nurture the field of our relationship, where a child was imprisoned and allow space for daydreaming. The field ultimately supported the emergence of a primitive part of me matching his, which he required to safely mirror his experience. In staying and dreaming within this field of longing, we reconstructed his initial trauma. The defeat of my ego and the response to the multiplicity of Mark's states through the sustained reverie of holding a child, a single archetypal image, stirred the good mother in me, forged a container for non-rational, affective somatic psychic splits, and initiated psychic changes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates the concept of psychogenic autism that has been proposed by Frances Tustin. Her work centers on the dynamics of this serious illness with an emphasis on the infant’s experiences in the earliest connection with the mother. Tustin writes that the sudden and violent disruption of the skin-to-skin maternal/infant contact gives rise to pathological attempts to heal this separation; namely, through the infant’s shutting out contact with the external emotional world. An extensive clinical vignette is offered to illustrate how these dynamics are manifest clinically and the author’s efforts to establish a meaningful connection with a young patient. Transference and countertransference reactions are discussed in detail. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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A ISBO – Intervenção Sociodramática Breve Operacionalizada fundamenta-se em estudo psicodramático, conjugado ao método psicanalítico aplicado no campo socioeducacional. Considera que o clima afetivo grupal de "suposições básicas" de dependência, ataque-fuga e acasalamento (Bion) é induzido pelas respostas contratransferenciais do líder (sujeito que ajuda um grupo a se tornar mais eficaz, criando e conquistando objetivos comuns, por meio da participação). Parte do pressuposto que o procedimento sociodramático possibilita a emergência da significação funcional da repetição/atuação contida nas respostas contratransferenciais de líderes, podendo assim contribuir para melhor produtividade grupal, em diferentes contextos sociais. A qualidade da relação entre o líder e os participantes de seu grupo de referência é analisada a partir das "suposições básicas", presentificadas nas cenas coconstruídas, em subgrupos referentes aos quatro setores da adaptação: afetivo-relacional, produtividade, orgânico e sociocultural (Simon). Em seguida, por meio do teatro espontâneo, propicia-se o encaminhamento de respostas novas e mais adequadas, para constituir um grupo de trabalho, centrado na tarefa. A técnica de inversão de papéis é indicada como um instrumento que permite a resolução de conflitos interculturais, na medida em que os membros de um subgrupo podem experimentar, no "como se", os papéis existentes em outros subgrupos. O bom resultado dessa proposta é garantido pelos personagens projetados na cena protagônica, que refletem e resolvem os conflitos grupais sem expor os participantes da ISBO. Desse modo, a identidade, a identificação subjetiva e o papel de líder estão interligados. Neste artigo, descrevo o procedimento utilizado como intervenção diagnóstica inicial em grupos de líderes. Após o diagnóstico, é construído o planejamento de ações aplicado entre quatro e oito encontros sociodramáticos tematizados. Assim, esse procedimento favorece o desenvolvimento da capacidade crítica de reflexão sobre o próprio pensamento e as próprias ações, em um espaço interno psíquico, que permite a construção do conhecimento de aspectos inconscientes que o líder desconhece sobre as bases profundas de conflitos, situaçõesproblema e suas resoluções na atualidade.

Objetivo. Explorar los significados construidos en torno al suicidio en un grupo de psicoterapeutas psicoanalíticos de un centro de formación en Lima. Método. Desde el paradigma cualitativo, se utilizó un diseño fenomenológico en dos etapas. En la primera participaron 54 psicoterapeutas psicoanalíticos y en la segunda se seleccionaron ocho participantes que tuvieran contacto con pacientes con ideaciones o intentos suicidas. Las técnicas de recolección empleadas fueron, para la primera etapa, una ficha de datos y las redes semánticas naturales; y, para la segunda, una entrevista en profundidad. Resultados. Los psicoterapeutas evocaron diversos significados frente al fenómeno del suicidio, los cuales pueden organizarse en tres ejes: el paciente, el psicoterapeuta y su contratransferencia y el tratamiento. Conclusión. Los significados son construidos a partir de las propias experiencias. De esta manera, la contratransferencia se presenta como un concepto psicoanalítico que permite la comprensión de la dinámica entre los pacientes suicidas y los psicoterapeutas, y, a su vez, influye en la creación de significados mutuos. Por su parte, los psicoterapeutas emplean estos significados como una forma de dar sentido y comprender el suicidio.

In this paper the author argues that trans-identification and its associated medical treatment can constitute an attempt to evade experiences of psychological distress. This occurs on three levels. Firstly, the trans person themselves may seek to evade dysregulated affects associated with such experiences as attachment trauma, childhood abuse, and ego-alien sexual feelings. Secondly, therapists may attempt to evade feelings, such as fear and hatred, evoked by engaging with these dysregulated affects. Thirdly, we, as a society, may wish to evade acknowledging the reality of such trauma, abuse and sexual distress by hypothesizing that trans-identification is a biological issue, best treated medically. The author argues that the quality of evidence supporting the biomedical approach is extremely poor. This puts young trans people at risk of receiving potentially damaging medical treatment they may later seek to reverse or come to regret, while their underlying psychological issues remain unaddressed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Several decades after the publication of some classical psychoanalytic studies, their original meaning gets lost in contemporary cultures and the conscious connection between original idea and author is often scotomized. Pioneers Sabina Spielrein and Helene Deutsch have both developed fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis in their time and are currently poorly read and studied. Among some other significant contributions, in 1912 Spielrein puts forward the notion of destructive drive, an inspiring spark for Freud to develop the duality of drives, in 1920. In 1926, among other original formulations, Deutsch develops the concept of intuition and identificatory modalities in therapeutic relations, which contains the essence of Racker's countertransference classification, designed in the 1960s, greatly remarkable in Latin America. In this study, the author points out that both psychoanalysts share -- under different angles -- an understanding of the human mind through a dual bias, emphasizing the primitive interaction between subject and object, rearranged in transference, which is why she regards them as the originators of intersubjectivity. A review of these pioneers' personal journey and psychoanalytic production intends to do justice to the conceptual legacy they both bequeathed and to underline the overall importance of reading original classical studies as a salutary source of inspiration in the pursuit of scientific consistency and accuracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Combining her clinical experience in the areas of anesthesiology and psychoanalysis and illustrating with clinical vignettes, the author reports, reflects and proposes some theoretical foundations for the use of her reclining and swivel chair, which has proved to be a potentially useful and rich technical proposal in treatment of certain types of clinical situations. She thinks that due to its mobility, the swivel chair can relate to the transitional function of uniting and separating, using the experience of illusion in the analysis of regressive aspects of the personality, when it is accessing nuclei that are still psychically premature. She supports on Ferenczi, Green, Roussillon, Ogden, Gabbard, Ferro, among others, with an emphasis on Winnicott's transitional phenomena to support her ideas about the tool, which would become and not be an armchair and be and not be a divan. So, could the swivel chair be thought of as a transitional divan? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper considers a 'befallment' that occurred in the course of analysis at a time when the focus of work was too much at a conscious level, dissociated from the patient's embodied and visceral depths. A rigidly held attitude of focal attention is considered as potentially a defence against embodied experiences of overwhelm and vulnerability that may haunt shadowy realms which remain unlit by the narrow beam of conscious awareness. Rather as a dream drifts in from the unconscious, an enactment by the analyst brought neglected aspects of the transference and countertransference relationship into the room. Later, the patient's own dreaming mind offered images that suggested an underlying dynamic. These subtle communications, alongside the patient's attitude toward the analyst's lapse, are considered as factors in the achievement of greater embodied integration. The analyst's difficulty in arriving at a formulation of such events is discussed, along with the necessity of holding such 'befallments' in mind over long periods of time before any explanation can be adumbrated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the "Ferenczi case", as identified in a text by his patient/analyst, Elizabeth Severn, this article presents and discusses three issues of contemporary psychoanalysis: a critique of the emphasis on diagnostic interpretation, especially when it is standardizing, the creation of intersubjective spaces in analysis and their potential dimension and the way that "madness", once shared, psychically mobilizes and allows relevant content to emerge in both the patient and the analyst. This article further discusses whether the possibility of adopting a non-normative position towards disruptive elements of the other's psyche could be the result, at least in part, of the analyst's ability to move between the fragments of his own psyche. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

«Beyond counter-transference» Countertransference (CT) is defined as the analyst's response to the patient's transference (T). For this reason, it is often said that everything experienced by the analyst is not necessarily CT: for example, his thoughts on which technique to use, the patient's psychopathology, the theoretical thoughts brought up by the session and personal reactions which seem not linked to the situation. In this work, the author has some reservations about excluding several productions of the T-CT. What he means by "Beyond counter-transference" is the analyst's modality of being, what is involved in the healing process, and his ability to selfanalyze. To study this aspect, the author reviews some ideas of the CT as an instrument, CT variations, lateral T and CT, the need of the patient where the patients asks the analyst to give him an idea of what's wrong and to find an interpretation so as to be able to better comprehend the illness. It is interesting to emphasize that pursuant to the process of intersubjectivity in which both parties of this dynamic situation are naturally placed, the patient introjects the way the analyst deals with his intra-subjective experience, particularly when he formulates the material which mobilizes and/or unsettles him. The analyst's stamina is also under pressure. A case illustrates these thoughts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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O artigo apresenta uma trajetória de descoberta da riqueza das ideias ferenczianas: partindo de uma questão de manejo técnico da “identificação com o agressor” na clínica com crianças vítimas de abuso sexual, a autora se deparou com as visionárias ideias de Sándor Ferenczi em prol de uma flexibilidade na técnica analítica, com a finalidade de driblar a resistência de alguns pacientes ao método analítico ortodoxo. Tal proposta, mesmo não tendo sido estudada ou seguida pelas instituições psicanalíticas, serve, perfeitamente, para descrever o manejo da técnica analítica com adolescentes na contemporaneidade – tanto na renúncia à estrita observância da regra fundamental da associação livre, quanto na necessária disponibilidade do analista para conviver seja com o silêncio como modo de resistência do paciente, seja com suas atuações (acting out). Ao estímulo dado por Ferenczi aos analistas para prestarem atenção à força da resistência dos clientes e aos sentimentos mobilizados pela contratransferência, podem somar-se as prescrições acerca da confiança na franqueza e na sinceridade do analista diante das atitudes desconfiadas e antipáticas do paciente – recomendações que se encaixam, como uma luva, no campo minado em que se constitui o setting analítico com adolescentes, conforme será ilustrado por fragmentos de um caso clínico.

Frente ao preconceito pautado no argumento de que o mundo precisa deixar de ser apolíneo ou que o analista junguiano deve afastar-se de Apolo, este trabalho reflete sobre a real necessidade de interdição de Apolo na clínica. Para isso, resgataram-se as diferentes abordagens que caracterizam o deus da mitologia grega como figura complexa e multifacetada. Sua presença no consultório suscitou o estudo da transferência e da contratransferência. Como ferramenta de análise, extraiu-se das características de Apolo o que parecia mais marcante na possível interferência à atuação clínica: o poder e o distanciamento emocional. Em forma de julgamento, referindo-se à condenação do logos no meio junguiano, este trabalho se transformou numa carta em defesa de Apolo e de todos os deuses, sem a necessidade do sacrificium intellectus. O temenos analítico revela-se como arena de vozes, palco do politeísmo, onde todos os deuses podem e devem se presentificar sem qualquer interdição a um ou outro para que o analista cumpra com o seu papel.