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NUOVO
LIBRO "ESSERE NELLA CURA"
Autori:
Giacomo Di Marco, Isabella Schiappadori
Editore:
Frenis Zero
Collana:
Confini della Psicoanalisi
Anno
di pubblicazione: 2019
Pagine:
210
ISBN:978-88-97479-17-8
Dalla
presentazione degli Autori: <<La
cura introduce nella storia della persona un processo di
identificazione che trae vita da ciò che fa: l’atto della
cura ci appartienee s’incontra con le persone a cui è destinato. In
questo moto di identificazione sul quale si fonda la natura
della relazione, avviene un processo per cui tratteniamo nel
nostro mondo psichico e nell’orizzonte della nostra mente le
varie modulazioni del prendersi cura. Esse ci aiutano a
pensare i valori impliciti nella relazione di cura,
specialmente quando la consideriamo nel passaggio dal piano
della possibilità alla dimensione spazio-temporale
dell’esistenza e della realtà attuale, nei modi in cui
possiamo realizzarla.
In
questi ultimi anni dominati da una sorta di ecumenismo
psichiatrico, che ha favorito la retorica del dialogo a tutti
i costi tra i vari modelli, e ha comportato il fiorire di
derive e derivati che hanno svuotato di senso l’agire
psichiatrico, ci pare indispensabile sostenere con forza il
nostro punto di vista. Non possono essere efficaci le pratiche
che non si fondano sul rispetto della soggettività del
paziente e dell’operatore. Tenere in conto la soggettività
è il fondamento di ogni discorso psicologico e psichiatrico.
Il
privilegio, che questo testo attribuisce al “saper essere
nella cura”, rappresenta una risposta, un contributo, nella
sua parzialità, per ribadire con convinzione la centralità
della dimensione relazionalenel curare.Pensiamo che la cura possa recuperare visibilità,
rispetto e credibilità, se si rinuncia sempre più
all'illusione di guariree si scopre il piacere di curare, nel duplice aspetto
di sentirsi in grado di “funzionare” terapeuticamentee di offrire alla soggettività sofferenteforme di integrazione evolutiva.>>
Il libro
è
acquistabile su Amazon:
NUOVO
LIBRO (in inglese) su ENACTMENT E PSICOANALISI
A
cura di Giuseppe Leo & Giuseppe Riefolo
Scritti
di: Efrat Ginot Jay R. Greenberg
Jessica Kraus, Giuseppe Leo, Giuseppe Riefolo,
Jeremy D. Safran
Editore:
Frenis Zero
Collana:
Confini della Psicoanalisi
Anno
di pubblicazione: 2019
Pagine:
326
ISBN:978-88-97479-15-4
Il
libro è dedicato a Jeremy Safran ed a Lewis Aron, eminenti
figure di psicoanalisti, recentemente scomparsi, che hanno
dedicato pionieristici contributi all’argomento dell’”enactment”.
Come ha scritto Safran, sebbene l’enactment sia un concetto
problematico e fonte di confusione tra i differenti approcci,
esso può conferire alla psicoanalisi, il cui stato di
disciplina ‘liminale’ cioè al confine con altre non
sempre ad essa epistemologicamente commensurabili (neuroscienze,
infant research, antropologia culturale, ecc.), una
significativa fonte di vitalità. Il libro esplora il tema
dell’”enactment” in relazione a tali confini o aree di
transizione, specie nell’introduzione di Giuseppe Leo che ne
analizza la genesi storica ed il ruolo di concetto-ponte tra
psicoanalisi e psichiatria, tra psicoanalisi e neuroscienze,
tra psicoanalisi e pratiche trans-culturali ed esplorandone
altresì la valenza trans-generazionale. Jay Greenberg nel suo
capitolo discute le varie modalità di partecipazione
dell’analista per cui, sebbene un certo grado di azione e
‘mutualità’ possa essere considerato espressione di un
modomeno
formalizzato di interazione coll’analizzando, molte
delle vignette cliniche maggiormente influenti nella
letteratura contemporanea sottolineano una maggiore tendenza
del clinico ad assumersi dei rischi, cosa che però richiede
una discussione critica ed attenta ai confini del setting.
Giuseppe Riefolo nel suo capitolo, utilizzando vignette
cliniche provenienti da setting differenti (psicoanalitico,
psichiatrico nel servizio pubblico) esplora un percorso che
dall’azione (concepita come qualcosa che impedisce il
processo analitico in quanto antitetico rispetto al ricordare
ed al rielaborare nelle prime formulazioni teoriche) passa per
la relazione (per cui l’enactment diventa un processo e non
più solo un evento) fino ad una concezione dell’enactment
come espressione di una conoscenza relazionale implicita
incarnata che può essere condivisa tra analista e paziente
per produrre nuove configurazioni terapeutiche. Nel loro
capitolo Safran e Kraus, pur nella consapevolezza che le
rotture dell’alleanza terapeutica, le ‘impasse’ e gli
‘enactment’ siano inevitabili, illustrano il loro
programma di ricerca che è stato formalizzato in una
metodologia di formazione per gli psicoterapeuti volta ad
individuare e ad affrontare costruttivamente tali eventi
potenzialmente portatori di un esito terapeutico negativo.
Infine Efrat Ginot nel capitolo conclusivo espone come,
rispetto all’’enactment’ ed all’empatia, sia le
osservazioni cliniche che la recente ricerca neuroscientifica
forniscano sempre nuove evidenze su ciò che accomuna
piuttosto che solo su ciò che distingue
tali due processi intersoggettivi.Un video riassume le
tematiche del libro Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deyhMirpeoY
Il libro è
acquistabile su Amazon:
LIBRO (in inglese) su INFANT RESEARCH E PSICOANALISI
Dagli
articoli di precedenti numeri della rivista di psicoanalisi
Frenis Zero è uscito l'ultimo libro delle
nostre edizioni per il momento in inglese e prossimamente in
italiano. Il libro è dedicato a due pionieri del dialogo tra
psicoanalisi e psicologia dello sviluppo, Daniel Stern e Berry
Brazelton. Gli autori del libro sono Beatrice Beebe (New
York), che vi ripercorre il suo "viaggio" personale
che dura 40 anni all'interno di questo ambito di ricerche,
Karlen Lyons-Ruth ed altri che trattano delle rappresentazioni
materne della confusione dei ruoli genitoriali, Colwyn
Trevarthen (Edimburgo), che ripercorre la storia delle sue
ricerche a contatto con personaggi come Bruner e Brazelton, ed
Edward Tronick (Boston) che tratta delle implicazioni
psicoterapeutiche della creazione diadica del significato.La
introduzione è di Giuseppe Leo che è anche il curatore. Il libro è
acquistabile su Amazon:
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Books.Google è possibile accedere ad un'anteprima limitata
del libro
GIORNATA
DELLA MEMORIA 2020
Nel
nostro canale YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve0gr6XUNqkIntervista
alla psicoanalista Luciana Nissim Momigliano (1919-1998) sulla
sua deportazione a Auschwitz-Birkenau.
NUMERO ON-LINE
SU "LA PSICOANALISIS IN UN'EPOCA DI CONVALIDA
EMPIRICA"
L'ultimo
numero di Frenis Zero (n.33, anno 17, gennaio 2020) è tutto in
inglese, si intitola "PSYCHOANALYSIS IN AN AGE OF
EMPIRICAL VALIDATION".
Dall'Editoriale
di Giuseppe Leo: <<In quest'ultimo numero della nostra
rivista abbiamo pubblicato articoli accomunati da un
interesse: in una situazione in cui la psicoanalisi rischia di
soffrire di un relativo isolamento rispetto agli altri
approcci psicoterapeutici e al "legame coi metodi della
biologia, della psicologia, e della psichiatria e,
soprattutto, ad una mancanza di sufficiente materiale empirico
in grado di supportare l'efficacia del trattamento
psicoanalitico" (J. P. Jimenez, in "Psychoanalysis
and its Borders", Edizioni Frenis Zero 2012, a
cura di Giuseppe Leo, traduzione del curatore), abbiamo il
compito di diffondere una letteratura psicoanalitica non
solamente basata su principi ermeneutici, ma aperta alle
discipline confinanti (neuroscienze, 'infant research', ecc.)
allo scopo di rafforzare quella 'base di evidenze della
psicoanalisi' in accordo con cui essa "dovrebbe (...)
sviluppare più stretti legami con dati alternativi
accogliendo metodologie disponibili nelle moderne scienze
sociali e biologiche" (Fonagy et al., 1999, in Fonagy,
Kaechele, Krause, Jones, Perron, "An open door review
of outcome studies in psychoanalysis: Report prepared by the
Research Committee of the IPA at the request of the President",
University College, London).
Christian
Roesler nell'articolo "Development of Research Designs
for Investigating Concepts of Analytical Psychology and the
Efficacy/Effectiveness of Jungian Psychotherapy"
("Sviluppo di Progetti di Ricerca per investigare i
concetti della Psicologia Analitica e l'efficacia della
psicoterapia junghiana") afferma che ciò che emerge in
molti studi sugli esiti è che "non è il metodo ad
essere cruciale per (prevedere) l'esito della psicoterapia, ma
la persona del terapeuta e come egli riesca a creare
aspettative positive nel cliente come anche nel gestire la
relazione terapeutica. In particolare la capacità del
terapeuta di adattarsi in modo flessibile ai particolari
bisogni del paziente così come ai suoi cambiamenti nel corso
della terapia sembra essere il fattore cruciale" (Roesler,
ibidem).Ciò implica che non abbia molto senso sottolineare
l'importanza degli approcci manualizzati, come quelli promossi
dalla terapia cognitiva comportamentale. è
importante che i candidati siano ben formati in vista di
diventare psicoterapeuti competenti: ciò è un prerequisito
per qualsiasi studio e progetto sugli esiti delle
psicoterapie.
Jakub
Przybyla nel suo articolo "Philosophical and
methodological problems concerning ("Problemi
filosofici e metodologici riguardanti la neuropsicoanalisi")
critica l'idea di integrare neurobiologia e psicoterapiain
base soprattutto allo studio della psicoanalisi e della
neuropsicoanalisi. L'autore si concentra sui problemi
filosofici e metodologici che scaturiscono dai tentativi di
compiere una tale integrazione. L'articolo presenta la tesi
che tale approccio porti ad un dannoso riduzionismo. Esso
propone anche uno sguardo alla relazione tra psicoterapia e
neurobiologia come area di cooperazione che eviti la
confusione dei linguaggi teorici.
Al
riguardo
della comprensione neuroscientifica dei processi di memoria,
in particolare nei disturbi dissociativi post-traumatici, è
l'articolo di Jelena Radulovic, Royce Lee e Andrew Ortony
"State-Dependent Memory: Neurobiological Advances and
Prospects for Translation to Dissociative Amnesia". Gli
autori cercano di rispondere alla domanda sul perché la
memoria per alcune esperienze traumatiche possa essere
compromessa mentre altre esperienze altrettanto traumatiche
vengano ricordate bene. Essi introducono nel loro articolo
prospettive cliniche, cognitive e neurobiologiche sulla
ricerca sulla memoria, in particolare esaminando il ruolo
della memoria stato-dipendente e discutono in che modo i
progressi neurobiologici su questo tipo di memoria, raccolti
tra gli studi su animali, possano essere trasferiti agli
esseri umani.
Più
vicini ad una prospettiva clinica sono gli articoli di Beate
Schumacher "'We are all born naked' - is the rest
drag? Some thoughts on gender identity development and
psychoanalysis" e di Pilios-Dimitris Stavrou "The
consequences of childhood sexual abuse on the conjugal life of
a young woman and the effects of the psychoanalytic
psychotherapy as a method of treatment".
Infine,
l'articolo di Michael Forrester "Psychoanalytic
Underpinnings of Socially-Shared Normativity" considera
la proposta che il pensiero psicoanalitico possa informare la
nostra comprensione del modo in cui la normatività condivisa
socialmente emerga durante la prima e la seconda
infanzia.
Nel
nosto Canale You Tube il video il cui testo, scritto da
Gerhard Schneider, traenndo spunto dal film "Good-bye
Lenin", dà un'interpretazione psicoanalitica al processo
che ha portato a tale evento storico. Il video ha sottotitoli
in inglese, ma per seguirlo in italiano si può andare al Link:
http://web.tiscali.it/freniszero/schneiderfrenis.htm
RECENSIONI
BIBLIOGRAFICHE
Pubblichiamo
la recensione, scritta da Brad McLean del libro di Jessica
Benjamin "IL RICONOSCIMENTO RECIPROCO. L'intersoggettività
e il Terzo" (2019)- Link: http://web.tiscali.it/cispp/benjamin.htm
SEMINARIO
CLINICO
"LA CURA E LE ISTITUZIONI"
Il
7 marzo 2020 si svolgerà nella nostra sede del Centro di Psicoterapia
Dinamica "Mauro Mancia" (via Lombardia, n.18 -
Lecce) il seminario "LA CURA E LE ISTITUZIONI" con il dott.
Giacomo Di Marco (psichiatra, psicoterapeuta ad orientemento
psicoanalitico, Rovereto), Giuseppe Riefolo
(psicoanalista SPI, psichiatra ASL ROMA/E), Isabella
Schiappadori (psicoterapeuta di formazione psicoanalitica,
Mantova). Per info ed iscrizioni contattare la segreteria
organizzativa all'indirizzo email assepsi@virgilio.it
VIDEO-RECENSIONE
CINEMATOGRAFICA
Prendendo
spunto dal film di François Ozon "Grazie a Dio" un
excursus psicoanalitico su "Trauma, Terapia,
Testimonianza e Perdono" nei casi di abuso infantile.
Link del nostro canale YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFOVet8tLeA
CANALI
YOUTUBE DI FRENIS ZERO
1)
Nel nostro canale YouTube il video della conferenza di Otto
Kernberg "Technical Implications of Transference
Structure in Personality Disorders". Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS_pe-13hUM
3) Nel nostro canale YouTube il video attinenente alla relazione
di Jacques André
"Une psychanalyse de rêve" (5 octobre 2019)
4) Nel nostro canale YouTube il video attinente alla relazione
di
Miguel BENASAYAG su ibridazione e digitalizzazione
5)
Nel nostro canale YouTube i video attinenti alla giornata
sull'enactment (Lecce, 7 giugno 2019) con interventi di
Stefano Benegiamo (medico, psicoanalista AIPA, Lecce), Paolo
Boccara (psichiatra, psicoanalista SPI, Roma), Giuseppe Leo
(psichiatra, editore Frenis Zero, Lecce), Giovanni
Meterangelis (psichiatra, psicoanalista SPI, Roma), Giuseppe
Riefolo (psichiatra, psicoanalista SPI, Roma). Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACyl8cyF6wwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W4-gkXA8_U
6)
Nel nostro canale YouTube il video sulla relazione di Stephen
Seligman (18 maggio 2019) su Psicoanalisi ed "Infant
Research". Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksfHNeqHm0Q
8)
Nel nostro canale YouTube ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoIdc5p6Mx0
) l'omaggio ad Agnes Heller, la
sociologa ungherese attenta alla psicologia degli affetti che
è deceduta il 19 luglio 2019
LIBRO (in Italiano) DELLE EDIZIONI FRENIS ZERO "PSICOANALISI, LUOGHI
DELLA
RESILIENZA
ED IMMIGRAZIONE"
AA.
VV. "PSICOANALISI, LUOGHI DELLA RESILIENZA ED
IMMIGRAZIONE" a cura di Giuseppe Leo
S. Araùjo Cabral,L. Curone,M. Francesconi,L. Frattini, S. Impagliazzo, D. Centenaro Levandowski, G. Magnani,M. Manetti, C. Marangio,G. A. Marra e Rosa, M. Martelli, M. R. Moro, R. K. Papadopoulos,A. Pellicciari, G.
Rigon,D. Scotto di
Fasano, E. Zini, A. Zunino, Psicoanalisi, luoghi della resilienza ed
immigrazione, Collana "Id-entità Mediterranee",
Frenis Zero
2017, ISBN 978-88-97479-11-6, € 39,00, pagine
372.
"PSICOANALISI
IN TERRA SANTA" a cura di A. Cusin e G. Leo
H.
Abramovitch, A.
Cusin, M. Dwairy, A. Lotem, M. Mansur, M. P. Salatiello, "Psicoanalisi
in Terra Santa", prefazione
di Anna Sabatini Scalmati, Postfazione
di Christoph U. Schminck-Gustavus, Note di Nader Akkad, Collana
"Id-entità Mediterranee", Frenis Zero
2017, ISBN 978-88-97479-12-3, € 29,00 (rilegatura
rigida), euro 20,00 (rilegatura economica).
PSICOLOGIA
DELL'ANTISEMITISMO (2.a edizione) di Imre Hermann
Imre Hermann, "Psicologia
dell'antisemitismo", a
cura di Giuseppe
Leo, Collana
"Cordoglio e Pregiudizio", Frenis Zero 2017, ISBN
978-88-97479-10-9, € 18,00.
ESSERE
BAMBINI A GAZA. IL TRAUMA INFINITO di Maria Patrizia
Salatiello
Maria
Patrizia Salatiello, "Essere bambini a Gaza. Il trauma
infinito", Collana
"Id-entità Mediterranee", Frenis Zero
2016, ISBN
978-88-97479-08-6, € 35,00.
ULTIMO
NUMERO (N.33, anno XVII, gennaio 2020) della RIVISTA
TELEMATICA "FRENIS ZERO"
E'
consultabile sul sito internet della rivista di
psicoanalisi "Frenis Zero" (link: http://web.tiscali.it/bibliopsi/frenishome.htm
) il numero 33 (anno 17, gennaio 2020), numero semestrale
monografico intitolato "Psychoanalysis in an Age of
Empirical Validation".
1)Au
lien de Frenis Zero (http://web.tiscali.it/bibliopsi/frenishome.htm)
Vous pouvez lire le sommaire du Numéro 33, an 17
(janvier 2020) de notre journal, dédié au sujet de
<<Psychoanalysis in an Age of Empirical
Validation>> (articles
en anglais).
1)
We
are glad to announce the issue of the last number (n.33,
year 17, January 2020) of Frenis Zero on-line journal:
"PSYCHOANALYSIS IN AN AGE OF EMPIRICAL VALIDATION".The table of contents is at url: http://web.tiscali.it/bibliopsi/frenishome.htm
. The papers are in English.
From
the Editorial written by Giuseppe Leo: << In
this last number of our journal we published some papers
sharing one common concern: in a situation in which
psychoanalysis risks to suffer for a relative isolation
from other psychotherapeutic approach and
<<methodological links to biology, psychology and
psychiatry, and, above all, lacking in sufficient
empirical research to support the efficacy of
psychoanalytic treatment>> (J. P. Jimenez, 2012,
in "Psychoanalysis and its Borders, edited by G.
Leo, p.127), we have to spread a psychoanalytic
literature not solely based on hermeneutic principles,
but open to confining fields of science (neuroscience,
Infant Research, etc.) in order to strengthen "the
evidence base of psychoanalysis" in accordance with
which psychoanalysis <<should (...)develop
closer links with alternative data gathering methods
available in modern social and biological science>>
(Fonagy et al., 1999, in
Fonagy, Kaechele, Krause, Jones, Perron, "An
open door review of outcome studies in psychoanalysis:
Report prepared by the Research Committee of the IPA at
the request of the President, University
College,London,p.45).
Christian
Roesler in his article "Development
of Research Designs for Investigating Concepts of
Analytical Psychology and the Efficacy/Effectiveness of
Jungian Psychotherapy" maintains that what
emerges in many outcome studies << it
is not the method which is crucial for outcome in
psychotherapy, but the person of the therapist and how
he/she succeeds in creating positive expectations in the
client as well as in handling the therapeutic
relationship. Especially the capacity of the therapist
to adapt in a flexible way to the special needs of the
client as well as to their changes over the course of
therapy seems to be a crucial factor.>> (Roesler,
ibidem). This implies that emphasizing manualized
approaches, like the ones promoted by CBT, does not make
really sense. It is important that candidated could be
well trained in order to become competent
psychotherapists: this is a pre-requisite for any
outcome psychotherapy project and study.
Jakub
Przybyla in the paper "Philosophical
and methodological problems concerning
neuropsychoanalysis"criticizes
the idea of integrating neurobiology and psychotherapy
based mainly on the study of psychoanalysis and
neuropsychoanalysis. The author focuses on the
philosophical and methodological problems which arise
from attempts to carry out this integration. The articlepresents
the view that this approach is a harmful reduction. It
also proposes a look at the relationship between
psychotherapy and neurobiology as an area ofcooperation
that avoids the confusion of theoretical languages.
Concerning
neuroscientific understanding of memory processes,
particularly in post-traumatic dissociative disorders,
is the paper by Jelena Radulovic, Royce Lee and Andrew
Ortony "State-Dependent
Memory: Neurobiological Advances and Prospects for
Translation to Dissociative Amnesia". The
authors try to answer to the question of why memory for
some traumatic experiences is compromised whereas other
comparably traumatic experiences are remembered well.
They introduce in their article clinical, cognitive, and
neurobiological perspectives on memory research, in
particular examining the role of state-dependent memory
and discuss how advances in neurobiology of this kind of
memory, gleaned from animal studies, might be translated
to humans.
Finally,
Michael Forrester's article "Psychoanalytic
Underpinnings of Socially-Shared Normativity"
considers the proposal that psychoanalytic thinking
might inform our understanding of how socially shared
normativity emerges during infancy and early childhood.First,
a framework is sketched out that highlights the fact
that from the beginning, an infant’s earliest
experience is bound up with those procedures, practices,
and social actions that make up what conversation
analysts call members’ methods. Second, comparisons
are drawn between conversation analysis and
psychoanalytic accounts of early experience for infants
during the first years of life. Discussion then moves to
the Kleinian notion of object relations and the concept
of projective identification. Essentially, this is a
theoretical account of how “what-was-once-one” (the
mother-infant unit) somehow differentiates resulting in
the gradual emergence of the “individuated being.”
What is often glossed over in this account is the
discursively embedded nature of projective
identification; a process that is itself interdependent
with the embodiment that makes up the infant’s lived
engagement with the world. Whatever might constitute
consciousness emerges from somatic, embodied,
material-physical, tactile/affective experience – that
is, a fundamentally social milieu. Ultimately, this
raises the question of how transformation (i.e., from
the social to the individual) occurs. One answer may be
Winnicott’s idea of the transitional space, where the
“good-enough” parent is said to be somebody, who can
“contain” both negative and positive identifications
coming from the infant, transform and re-project such
identifications, but in modified form. In this way, the
infant begins to recognize/experience what it is they
are “feeling.” Such projective identifications are
conveyed within and through the prevailing discourses
that constitute all social practices. Concluding
comments note that conversation analysis may find in
psychoanalytic thinking a framework for understanding
the interdependence between affect and action, given
that in psychoanalytic thought, we find a thoroughly
relational conception of human nature.
2)Some
psychoanalytic notes about TRAUMA, THERAPY, WITNESSING,
and FORGIVING taking the cue from François Ozon's film
"By the Grace of God" (texts by Giuseppe Leo)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFOVet8tLeA
3)
We
are glad to announce the issue of the last book published
in English by Edizioni Frenis Zero: "ENACTMENT IN
PSYCHOANALYSIS" edited by Giuseppe Leo and Giuseppe
Riefolo, writings by Efrat Ginot, Jay R Greenberg,
Jessica Kraus, Jeremy D Safran. Collection "Borders
of Psychoanalysis", Frenis Zero publisher, Lecce
2019, pp.326.
The
book is dedicated to Jeremy Safran and Lewis Aron, whose
recent loss
drove the editors as well as the publisher to gather
these contributions about enactment, a topic to whom
Safran and Aron devoted many papers of theirs. As Safran
wrote, though problematic and source of confusion among
different psychoanalytic approaches, the epistemological
status of psychoanalysis, related to its condition of
‘liminality’, is a meaningful source of vitality for
the discipline. The book explores the subject of
enactment in relation to boundaries in psychoanalysis,
referring to a series of viewpoints that lead to many
crucial areas.
4)
We
are glad to announce the issue of the book published
in English by Edizioni Frenis Zero:"INFANT RESEARCH
AND PSYCHOANALYSIS" edited by Giuseppe Leo,
writings by Beatrice Beebe, Karlen Lyons-Ruth, Jeremy P.
Nahum, Elisabet Solheim, Colwyn Trevarthen, Edward Z.
Tronick, Lauriane Vulliez-Coady. Collection "Borders
of Psychoanalysis", Frenis Zero publisher, Lecce
2018, pp.273.
This
book has the hard task to cover an interdisciplinary
area in which psychoanalysis has to deal with infant
research. The development of infant research
methodologies is illustrated in the present book by the
contribution written by Beatrice Beebe, whose
‘journey’ leads us through the ‘creating’ of a
discipline with its creators, her traveling companions,
such as Daniel Stern, Frank Lachmann, Joseph Jaffe and
many others. Trevarthen’s chapter is a discussion of
his work with T. Berry Brazelton, passed away on March
2018. Brazelton used his trust and enjoyment of innocent
company to greet a newborn infant as a friend, and he
showed that the baby is read to share friendship with
mother and father, giving them joy. Brazelton’s belief
in innate human nature transformed pediatric care and
early diagnosis of developmental disorders, guiding
treatment, not ‘of’ the baby, but ‘with’ him/her
as an individual with unique expressions of vitality.
The last two chapters, instead, deal with clinical
implications of infant research. Tronick’s
contribution focuses on mother-infant dyad as well as on
analyst-patient one, conceived as open dynamic systems,
capable of meaning making, in which coherence is at best
imperfect, and coordination alternates with mismatching.
In open dynamic systems messiness itself is inherent to
the process of meaning making because of limitations in
their capacity, «their different time scales, the many
polymorphs of meaning that have to be integrated, and
because of the many kinds of meaning making processes»
(including affective, cognitive, memorial, linguistic,
bodily and psychodynamic meaning making processes, such
as a dynamic unconscious, projective identification and
transference). «Dyadic states of consciousness»
Tronick writes in the chapter «are joint creations and,
as such, bring together the messy, unpredictable and
inchoate features of two individuals’ state of
consciousness, not just the messiness of one». But
meaning meaning processes and security making ones,
though normally overlapping each other, are not the same,
and this heterogeneity between motivational systems (Lichtenberg
et al., 2011) can cover the heterogeneity of
psychopathological conditions. Lyons-Ruth and
colleagues’ chapter is focused on the representational
world of the mother, particularly on the assessment of
mother’s representation of role-confusion in her
relation with her child. The authors call attention to
the dimension of sexualisation in the relationship, a
high indicator of role-confusion. This emerging body of
work points to the importance of being alert to
indicators of role-confusion in the clinical setting.
The findings can inform and enrich counselling and
psychology practice by familiarizing clinicians with how
to listen for indicators of role-confusion while talking
with parents about their relationship with the child.
5)
NEW VIDEO about the Holocaust Remembrance Day: Interview
with Luciana Nissim Momigliano (1919-1998) about her
deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau in our YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve0gr6XUNqk
6)
NEW
ARTICLE IN ENGLISH: "REFLECTIONS OF A ROCK 'N' ROLL
DRUMMER-ANALYST" by Heather Ferguson.
7)
Book "FUNDAMENTALISM
AND PSYCHOANALYSIS", Giuseppe Leo (Editor),
Prefaced by Vamik D. Volkan, writings by Lene Auestad,
Werner Bohleber, Sverre Varvin, Linden West. Collection "Mediterranean
Id-entities", Frenis Zero publisher, Lecce 2017,
pp.214.
The
collection “Mediterranean Id-entities” is devoted to
publish books in order to investigate the role of
Mediterranean cultures from a psychoanalytic point of
view, in front of the anthropological transformations
concerning human societies and social institutions in
the contemporary world. This book has the hard task to
cover an interdisciplinary area in which psychoanalysis
has to deal with fundamentalism as a social phenomenon
and therefore with ‘bordering’ disciplines (such as
religion history, transcultural studies, cultural
anthropology) often with epistemologies that for origin
and history appear to be incomparable to it. Lene
Auestad intends to integrate the psychological analysis
of the subject with its social embedding. She
investigates the importance of the social unconscious
and its effects on the prejudiced intentions of the
individual apart from its own active interpretations.
She highlights the importance the psychoanalytical
approach provides in understanding the unspoken,
unconscious contents of the social phenomena and how
much the socially critical approach is able to enrich
the analytical view which merely focuses on the subject
regarding the effects of the social consensus. While
Auestad’s scrutiny aims at the social convention’s
role as an agent affecting the individual’s deeds and
thinking, Linden West’s contribution draws on
‘psycho-social’ understandings, combining
psychoanalysis and critical theory, as well as the work
of John Dewey, to interrogate Islamic fundamentalist
groups in a post-industrial city. It explores processes
of self-recognition in groups and paranoid-schizoid
modes of functioning, in which unwanted parts of self
and of culture are split off and projected on to the
other. The world is correspondingly divided into good
and bad, pure and impure. John Dewey makes a crucial
distinction between processes of democratic education
and closed groups, which is what fundamentalist groups
are, by reference to the quality of relationship to the
other, and to experiential and narrative openness.
However, it is also suggested that fundamentalism is
ordinary, in that each of us can feel out of our depth,
at times, and we may grab at ideas promising truth and
nothing but the truth, which is ultimately illusion.
Except not everyone reaches for a Kalashnikov, which is
where individual biographies matter for subtler
understanding of difference within commonalities.
Fundamentalism has increasingly become a part of the
political discourse in Western countries and is to a
large degree associated with Islamic Jihadism.
Fundamentalism has, however, been a concern in all
religions, and Werner Bohleber in this book discusses
its connections with violence in monotheistic religions.
Fundamentalism is also a concern in professional
organisations and in this book Sverre Varvin discusses
the relation between fundaments for a science and
fundamentalism in psychoanalysis. This is related to
general trends of fundamentalism in religious and
political contexts. A central question is how adherence
to fundamentals, understood at basic principles for a
profession or a religious-political movement, may
develop into fundamentalism and how this may develop
into more violent forms. Psychoanalytic understanding of
mass psychology and unconscious processes at group
levels are developed in this book by each of the
outstanding authors in order to understand present
Islamic and other forms of fundamentalist movements in
the European context.
8) "NEUROSCIENCE
AND PSYCHOANALYSIS", G. Leo (ed.), prefaced by
Georg Northoff, writings by David Mann, Allan N.
Schore, Robert Stickgold, Bessel A. Van Der Kolk,
Grigoris Vaslamatzis, Matthew P. Walker, Collection
"Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience", Frenis Zero
Publisher, Lecce 2014, pp.300, € 49,00.
The
book gathers some papers concerning the dialogue between
neuroscience and psychoanalysis. Following the
Introduction written by Georg Northoff, concerning the
possibility of overcoming the highly impasse generating
contraposition between localizationism and holism, G.
Vaslamatzis deals with a “Framework for a new dialogue
between psychoanalysis and neurosciences”. In this
chapter the author describes three points of
epistemological congruence: firstly, dualism is no
longer a satisfactory solution; secondly, cautions for
the centrality of interpretation (hermeneutics); and,
thirdly, the self-criticism of neuroscientists. David
W.Mann in his contribution “The mirror crack’d:
dissociation and reflexivity in self and group phenomena”
tries to show how reflexive processes generate each of
three levels of the human system (self, relationships,
group) and integrate them one to another, while
dissociative processes tend throughout to pull them
apart. Health and illness within the self, the
relationship and the group can be understood as special
states of the dynamic equilibria between these cohesive
and dispersive trends. In “Sleep, memory and
plasticity” Matthew P. Walker and Robert Stickgold
outline a review of the researches following the
discovery of rapid eye movement (REM) and non-REM (NREM)
sleep, and specifically of those that began testing the
hypothesis that sleep, or even specific stages of sleep,
actively participated in the process of memory
development. The last two chapters, “Clinical
implications of neuroscience research in PTSD” by
Bessel A. Van Der Kolk, and “Dysregulation of the
right brain: a fundamental mechanism of traumatic
attachment and the psychopathogenesis of PTSD” by
Allan N. Schore, demonstrate how the psychopathology of
traumatic conditions can be a fertile field of dialogue
between neuroscience and psychoanalysis.
To
order the book you can click here: or
here
To
get a preview of the book click here:
9)"PSYCHOANALYSIS AND ITS BORDERS", G. Leo
(ed.), writings by J. Altounian, P. Fonagy, G.O.
Gabbard, J.S. Grotstein, R.D. Hinshelwood,
J.P. Jiménez, O.F. Kernberg, S. Resnik.
Collection "Borders of Psychoanalysis", Frenis
Zero Publisher, Lecce 2012, pp. 348, € 19,00.
Eight
outstanding theoreticians of contemporary
psychoanalysis reflect on psychoanalysis and its
borders and boundaries between it and adjacent
disciplines such as neuroscience, psychiatry, and
social sciences. The book celebrates ten years of
existence of Frenis Zero psychoanalytic journal.
You
can view a video introducing the book in our You Tube
Channel ( www.youtube.com/frenis0
) To
order the book you can click here: or
hereTo
get a preview of the book click here:
10)
Video launching the next number of Frenis Zero
psychoanalytic journal (june 2017) about "Fundamentalism
and Psychoanalysis"
To
register, clickhere,visitnypsi.orgor
call 212-879-6900
Extension
Program: A
Psychoanalytic
Approach to
Psychosis
This
class will present
the outline of a
comprehensive
approach to
psychosis from the
psychoanalytic
perspective. It will
begin with an
examination of
various models of
psychotic
functioning put
forth by
investigators such
as Freud, Searles,
Bion, Ogden and
Lacan. These models
permit a revised
view of diagnosis
that differs from
the standard
psychiatric
viewpoint laid out
in DSMV. The class
will lay particular
emphasis on the
practical import of
correct diagnosis.
The diagnostic
process will need to
be broad enough to
include patients
with a history of
psychosis who are
not currently
psychotic, as well
as so-called
"ordinary
psychotics".
The syllabus will
then proceed to a
discussion of
treatment that
includes changes in
the therapeutic
format and setting
and modifications in
the type of
intervention used.
In considering these
changes, the class
will take up the
question of the aim
of treatment: How it
differs from
traditional
approaches while
still qualifying as
authentically
psychoanalytic.
7.5
CME/CE credits
offered for the
course in its
entirety.
Thomas
Wolman, M.D. was
born and raised in
in New York City. He
moved back here
recently after
having lived in
Philadelphia for 45
years. He attended
Johns Hopkins
University and the
Pennsylvania State
University Medical
College.
Subsequently he
trained at the
Psychoanalytic
Center of
Philadelphia, where
he taught in both
the psychoanalytic
and psychotherapy
training programs.
He has taught at
Jefferson Medical
College, the
University of
Pennsylvania School
of Medicine, and
most recently, the
psychiatry residency
at Temple University
School of Medicine.
He has written on
Winnicott, Mahler,
Kohut and Lacan, as
well as on
contemporary film
and literary themes.
He is married with
two adult children
and three
grandchildren.
"The
Language of the Mother and the
Language of the Father:
Sabina
Spielrein's Anticipation of
the Concepts of Jacques Lacan,
Hélène Cixous and Luce
Irigaray"
Works
in
Progress
Seminar: The
Language
of
the
Mother
and
the
Language
of
the
Father
Sabina
Spielrein
(1885-1942)
was a
Russian-Jewish
forerunner of
child analysis.
I will focus
on her model
of the
development of
language and
thought first
formulated in
the
presentation
delivered at
the
International
Psychoanalytic
Congress held
in The Hague
in 1920, and
then expanded
in a number of
papers. I will
show how
Spielrein's
model
anticipated by
thirty years
Jacques Lacan's
concept of the
three orders,
Real,
Imaginary and
Symbolic, and
how her
concept of the
autistic
primitive
language
associated
with the
mother
anticipated
the theories
of Hélène
Cixous and
Luce Irigaray
who postulate
a non-symbolic
feminine
language
associated
with the
mother,
corporality
and feminine jouissance .
No
CME or CE credits
offered.
Klara
Naszkowska, Ph.D.,
cultural historian,
founding director of the
International Association
for Spielrein Studies ( www.spielreinassociation.org),
and 2019/2020 Fulbright
Visiting Scholar at Union
Theological Seminary
(Columbia University).
Recent and forthcoming
publications: "Passions,
Politics, and Drives:
Sabina Spielrein in Soviet
Russia" in: Sabina
Spielrein and the
Beginnings of
Psychoanalysis: Thought,
Word, and Image (Routledge,
2019) and "Sabina
Spielrein: Searching for
her own path" in: Psychoanalysis
in the Shadow of War and
Holocaust (in
Polish, Universitas,
2020). Klara is the main
organizer of the first
International Conference
"Sabina Spielrein and
the Early Female Pioneers
of Psychoanalysis"
(2-4 April 2020, Warsaw).
To
register, clickhere,visitnypsi.orgor
call 212-879-6900
NYPSI Extension Course:Psychoanalytic
Psychotherapy of Cancer Patients
This course will provide the
therapist with an introduction to
psychoanalytic psychotherapy for
cancer patients and their families.
The first session will address the
unique challenges for the therapist
of helping the patient face cancer
at various stages of the disease.
Death anxiety in both the patient
and therapist has tended to result
in avoiding this painful discussion
in psychotherapy at all stages of
the disease. Session two focuses on
how countertransference avoidance of
death can best be managed by
interventions that are based on
empirical studies and forty years of
clinical experience. These new
interventions can now permit the
therapist to be fully present for
the dying patient. Session three
will highlight the challenges facing
the spouses of dying cancer patients,
including preparation for death and
managing grief and mourning. A video
"The Courage to Survive: Facing
the Loss of Your Soul Mate"
will illustrate the
psychoanalytic treatment of a spouse
during the terminal phrase of his
wife's illness and after her death.
Norman Straker, M.D.is
Clinical Professor, Weill Cornell
Medical Center; Consultant, Sloan
Kettering Cancer Center; and Attending
Psychiatrist, New York Presbyterian
Hospital. He is the author ofFacing
Cancer and the Fear of Death: A
Psychoanalytic Perspective on
Treatment. Dr. Straker is on the
faculty of NYPSI.
This
presentation
will focus on
Whiteness as a
condition one
first acquires
and then one
has- a
malignant,
parasitic-like,
condition. The
condition is
malignant
because it
spreads/metastasizes,
targeting an
ever-widening
sphere of
objects. It is
parasitic in
that it is
contagious,
passed on by
other infected
people.
Biologically
"white"
people have a
particular
susceptibility
to "Whiteness".
This
susceptibility
is grounded in
pre-existing
hierarchical
representations
of self and
object - in
any
representation
that organizes
self and other
in a vertical
relation,
powerful and
powerless. The
condition is
foundational,
generating
characteristic
ways of being
in one's body,
in one's mind,
and in one's
world.
Parasitic
Whiteness
renders its
hosts'
appetites
voracious,
insatiable and
perverse. In
order to
preserve and
defend its
original
hierarchies,
it must
continuously
engender new
and expansive
ones. For
Whiteness, the
most
perceptually
available
category over
which to
establish
hierarchical
relations is
"color".
Race provides
"Whiteness"
its easiest
target.
Janine
Altounian (Parigi), Leonardo Ancona (Roma), Brenno Boccadoro
(Ginevra), Werner Bohleber (Francoforte sul Meno), Mario Colucci (Trieste),
Lidia De Rita (Bari), Santa Fizzarotti Selvaggi (Bari),
Patrizia Guarnieri (Firenze), Robert Hinshelwood (Londra), René
Kaes (Lione), Otto Kernberg (New York), Massimo Maisetti (Milano), Lidia
Marigonda (Venezia), Predrag Matvejevic' (Zagabria), Franca
Maisetti Mazzei (Milano), Laura Montani (Roma), Marie Rose
Moro (Parigi), Salomon Resnik
(Parigi), Mario Rossi Monti (Firenze), Mario Scarcella
(Messina), Sverre Varvin (Oslo), Vamik D. Volkan (Charlottesville,
USA).
Le
illustrazioni contenute in questa Newsletter sono tratte
da: "From Neurology
to Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud's Neurological Drawings and
Diagrams of the Mind" di Lynn Gamwell and Mark
Solms.
La
prossima newsletter verrà inviata nel mese di Febbraio
2020.
Cordiali
saluti...
La
prochaine newsletter sera envoyée en Février 2020. Cordiales
salutations.
The next newsletter is in February 2020.
Best
regards.
Giuseppe
Leo
Direttore
Responsabile (Editor) rivista di psicoanalisi applicata Frenis
Zero