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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:
Su
Books.Google è possibile accedere ad un'anteprima limitata
del libro
NUOVA
PUBBLICAZIONE IN INGLESE
"Psychoanalytic
Underpinnings of Socially-Shared Normativity" di Michael
Forrester è un articolo in lingua originale accessibile al
Link: http://web.tiscali.it/cispp/forrester,htm
NUOVO
NUMERO ON-LINE SULL'AUTENTICITA' IN PSICOANALISI
L'ultimo
numero di Frenis Zero (n.32, anno 16, giugno 2019) è tutto in
inglese, si intitola "AUTHENTICITY IN PSYCHOANALYSIS"
ed è dedicato alla memoria di Lewis Aron e di Jeremy Safran.
Il
tema dell'autenticità è svolto nei contributi di Giuseppe
Leo, "ENACTMENT
AND BOUNDARIES IN PSYCHOANALYSIS", e di Giuseppe
Riefolo "From
action to Relationship. Enactment as a Process",
tratti dal libro da loro curato "Enactment in
Psychoanalysis", in relazione all'enactment, che
impone di vedere la psicoterapia, in un'ottica bi-personale,
più come un'improvvisazione che come un
"canovaccio" preordinato. Al tema
dell'improvvisazione si lega il contributo di Heather Ferguson
"Reflections
of a Rock 'n' Roll Drummer-Analyst", in cui
l'analista newyorchese, anche percussionista, analizza le
analogie tra la struttura del linguaggio musicale, specie
jazz/rock, e quella della seduta psicoanalitica. Il testo di
Chin Li "PRESENCE
AND LINGERING: PSYCHOANALYSIS IN A MINDFULNESS FRAME"
cerca di pensare insieme la psicoanalisi e la "mindfulness"
riconoscendo il debito che in tale riflessione si deve a
Jeremy Safran. Un articolo speciale è quello di Massimiliano
Sommantico "THE
DEAD SIBLING: a family secret and its consequences"
in cui l'analista napoletano, prendendo spunto da una vignetta
clinica di una psicoterapia familiare, sottolinea l'importanza
delle tematiche dell'odio e della rivalità che caratterizzano
i legami tra fratelli.
Per la sezione dedicata alla psicoanalisi
in relazione alle neuroscienze vi proponiamo l'articolo di
Kate Mehuron "Memory reconsolidation: Hope for a Terminal
Analysis?". In questo articolo l'autrice si rifa ad
alcune ricerche neuroscientifiche sulla memoria per cercare un
supporto alla tesi, sostenuta da differenti psicoanalisti,
secondo cui la relazione terapeutica, grazie anche alla
freudiana "Nachträglichkeit", permette, attraverso
la ricontestualizzazione ed una nuova narrazione delle memorie
traumatiche, la scoperta da parte del paziente che il
"qui ed ora" è differente dal "lì ed
allora".
Pubblichiamo
in inglese l'articolo di Beate Schumacher (Londra) "We
are all born naked - is the rest drag? Some thoughts on gender
identity development and psychoanalysis" ("Nasciamo
tutti nudi - il resto è noia? Pensieri sullo sviluppo
dell'identità di genere e psicoanalisi"). Link: http://web.tiscali.it/cispp/schumacher.htm
SPECIALE
OPERA LIRICA E PSICOANALISI: FESTIVAL DELLA VALLE D'ITRIA
Presentiamo
"Ecuba"(1812) di Manfroce, andata in scena a Martina
Franca il 30 luglio 2019 con alcune riflessioni
psicoanalitiche sulla figura della regina di Troia scritte da
Giuseppe Leo (canale YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iIVLMOb43Q
). Sempre sul Festival della Valle d'Itria ma dell'anno scorso
potete trovare al link http://web.tiscali.it/cispp/loveINopera.htm
l'articolo in inglese di Giuseppe Leo "LOVE IN
OPERA".
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
"I DISTURBI DI PERSONALITA'" con G.
RIEFOLO
Il
23 novembre 2019 si svolgerà nella nostra sede del Centro di Psicoterapia
Dinamica "Mauro Mancia" (via Lombardia, n.18 -
Lecce) il prossimo seminario "I DISTURBI DI
PERSONALITA' IN UN'OTTICA PSICOANALITICA" con il dott. Giuseppe Riefolo
(psicoanalista SPI, psichiatra ASL ROMA/E) con CREDITI ECM
NAZIONALI (n.10,4) per massimo 15 partecipanti, iscritti agli
albi degli psicoterapeuti (evento n. 1072-276265). Nel canale YouTube di Frenis Zero potete vedere
alcuni momenti della giornata di studio precedente del 8
giugno su "LA FINE DELLA
PSICOTERAPIA": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=525ny-dmP_o
Il seminario del 23 novembre avrà 10 crediti nazionali per ciascun
evento e si svolgerà in piccolo gruppo (max 15 partecipanti necessariamente
abilitati alla psicoterapia). Per info ed
iscrizioni contattare la Segreteria Organizzativa via email: assepsi@virgilio.it
CANALI
YOUTUBE DI FRENIS ZERO
1)
Nel nostro canale YouTube il video attinenente alla relazione
di Jacques André
"Une psychanalyse de rêve" (5 octobre 2019)
2) Nel nostro canale YouTube il video attinente alla relazione
di
Miguel BENASAYAG su ibridazione e digitalizzazione
3)
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
4)
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
7)
Hilda Catz (psicoanalista dell'Associazione Argentina di
Psicoanalisi nonché artista) espone la sua relazione su
Psicoanalisi ed Arte. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKs9JJ3ukOA
9)
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
ULTIMO
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.32, anno XVI, giugno 2019) 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 32 (anno 16, giugno 2019), numero semestrale
monografico intitolato "Authenticity in
Psychoanalysis".
1)Au
lien de Frenis Zero (http://web.tiscali.it/bibliopsi/frenishome.htm)
Vous pouvez lire le sommaire du Numéro 32, an 16
(juin 2019) de notre journal, dédié au sujet de
<<Authenticité en Psychanalyse>> (articles
en anglais).
1)
New paper in honour of Toni Morrison, passed away on Aug
5, 2019: "The Root of Black Degeneracy in Toni
Morrison's The Bluest Eye & Sula: Collective
Unconscious or Perceptions?" by Kazi Shahidul Islam
. Link: http://web.tiscali.it/cispp/morrison.htm
2)
We are glad to announce a new publication: "We are
all born naked - is the rest drag? Some thoughts on
gender identity development and psychoanalysis" by
Beate Schumacher. Link: http://web.tiscali.it/cispp/schumacher.htm
4)
We
are glad to announce the issue of the last number (n.32,
year 16, june 2019) of Frenis Zero on-line journal:
"AUTHENTICITY IN PSYCHOANALYSIS".The table of contents is at url: http://web.tiscali.it/bibliopsi/frenishome.htm
. The papers are in English.
Following
the issue of the book "Enactment in Psychoanalysis"
(Eds. Giuseppe Leo & Giuseppe Riefolo), dedicated to
Lewis Aron and Jeremy Safran, we would like to dedicate
to them this on-line issue of our journal.The subject of
authenticity is developed both in Giuseppe Leo's paper
"ENACTMENT
AND BOUNDARIES IN PSYCHOANALYSIS" and in
Giuseppe Riefolo's "From
action to Relationship. Enactment as a Process",
two excerpts from the editors' chapters of the book,
referred to enactment, which allows to consider
psychotherapy, in a bi-personal point of view,
as improvisation rather than as scripted
performance.
To the subject of improvisation refers also the paper
""Reflections
of a Rock 'n' Roll Drummer-Analyst"
by Heather Ferguson, in which the NY analyst, a rock
drummer too, analyses analogies between the structure of
musical language, especially jazz/rock, and the one of
psychoanalytic session. The paper by Chin Li "PRESENCE
AND LINGERING: PSYCHOANALYSIS IN A MINDFULNESS FRAME"
is an attempt to think about psychoanalysis and
mindfulness together, recognizing the debt to Jeremy
Safran's contribution to such a reflection. A special
article is "THE
DEAD SIBLING: a family secret and its consequences"
by Massimiliano Sommantico: taking a cue from a clinical
vignette of family psychotherapy, the author highlights
the relevance of the dynamics of hate and rivalry
characterizing sibling links.
In
the section concerning psychoanalysis and neuroscience
the paper by Kate Mehuron "Memory
reconsolidation: Hope for a Terminal Analysis?"
refers to some neuroscientific investigations on memory
to support the author's claim, shared by other
psychoanalysts, that therapeutic relationship, thanks to
Freudian "Nachträglichkeit", allows patient,
through re-contextualization and re-telling of traumatic
memories, to recognize that "the here and now"
is no longer the "there and then".
5)
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.
6)
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.
7)
NEW ARTICLE IN ROSENTHAL SPACE: "VAGINAL VERITAS.
Thoughts on Misogyny, Psychoanalysis, and Democracy"
by Jill Gentile. Link: http://web.tiscali.it/cispp/gentile.htm
8)
NEW
ARTICLE IN ENGLISH: "REFLECTIONS OF A ROCK 'N' ROLL
DRUMMER-ANALYST" by Heather Ferguson.
10)
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.
11) "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.
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(ed.), writings by J. Altounian, P. Fonagy, G.O.
Gabbard, J.S. Grotstein, R.D. Hinshelwood,
J.P. Jiménez, O.F. Kernberg, S. Resnik.
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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.
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Video launching the next number of Frenis Zero
psychoanalytic journal (june 2017) about "Fundamentalism
and Psychoanalysis"
Works in Progress
Seminar: A
Courageous Trip by
First Responders to
Puerto Rico
Following Hurricane
Maria in September
2017
We were 3 doctors and 6 nurses.
What we found was chaos -
roads destroyed, electricity
gone, clean water unavailable,
medical care unavailable,
education unavailable.
No one was helping the local
population. We were not
to drink water from the tap.
There were broken water mains,
broken sewers, diarrhea,
parasitic infections.
The rule was to drink only
bottled water. Clean
your teeth only with bottled
water. Spray with DEET
to kill the mosquitos and
other insects.
We divided into 2 teams
- one for San Juan and one for
Arecibo, towns on the North
coast of Puerto Rico. Each
day we worked to exhaustion.
Lost count of the number of
patients. Diabetes,
hypertension, depression,
anxiety. Our
morale and esprit de corps was
high. We realized that
our efforts were inadequate
and that a huge amount of work
needed to be done. Most
of us came back to Puerto Rico
several times.
We
learned how poverty affected
medical insurance in Puerto
Rico and how Puerto Rico's
bankruptcy and political
relationship with the U.S.
government made the island
vulnerable to natural
disasters.
No
CME or CE credits offered.
Edward
Colt, MB, BS, FACP graduated
from University College Hospital Medical
School, London, in 1962. He was Assistant
Professor at Columbia University and is a
Senior Attending Physician at St. Luke's
Hospital. A researcher in genetics and
endocrinology, he has authored over 20 publication s
and peer-reviewed articles.
Two diverse
approaches to
writing a
psychoanalytic
biography of
an artist will
be described.
A focus on
unconscious
fantasy as a
means of
unraveling
enigmas in
Alberto
Giacometti's
life
characterized
the first
approach.
Close
attention to
the artist's
behavior and
the stylistic
development of
a signature
style were
crucial in
making sense
of Louise
Nevelson's
work and life.
No CME/CE credits
offered.
The Interpersonal Approach
to Working with Veterans
Andrew S. Berry, Ph.D.,
Psy.D., ABPP
Capt. Nate Emery, USMC (Ret'd)
Saturday, November
9, 2019
10:00 am - 12:30 pm
1 class / $85
Location: NYPSI Auditorium ( 247
East 82nd Street, NYC)
To
register, clickhere,visitnypsi.orgor
call 212-879-6900
Extension Program: The
Interpersonal Approach to
Working with Veterans
Typically,
when a veteran comes for
psychotherapy for PTSD and
related trauma, the PTSD is in
the foreground of treatment,
with everything else in the
background. In the interpersonal
approach, relationships, and how
PTSD affects them, are in the
foreground, with everything else
in the background. In
interpersonal treatment,
attachment issues and
relationships, along with the
impact of PTSD on them, are
prioritized. Clinical inquiries
into the veteran's brothers and
sisters on the battlefield are
emphasized as early as the
initial intake as is change in
the veteran's relationships
before and after battle. The
focus of the clinical work is
characteristically on how
relationships with people in
positions of authority developed
prior to treatment. And new
relationship development results
from trust in the process and
the re-parenting that may occur
within it.
2.5
CME/CE credits offered.
Dr. Andrew Berry is
a psychologist and psychoanalyst
with a group practice in
Saratoga County, in upstate New
York, and grew up not far from
where he practices. He works
mostly with adults, specializing
in PTSD and veterans' issues.
Nate Emery enlisted
in the Marine Corps in 1990 and
served as an infantryman in
OPERATION DESERT STORM in Kuwait
and OPERATION RESTORE HOPE in
Mogadishu, Somalia and several
other missions. He was
commissioned a Marine Officer in
2002 and retired from the Marine
Corps in 2012. Over his
22-year career, he served in
every combat element of the
Marine Corps, across eight
different occupational
specialties.
Mr. Emery holds a Master of
Science in Management and
Bachelor degrees in Political
Science, History and American
Studies. He currently
serves as a Management and
Program Analyst for the
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
for Manpower and Reserve Affairs. He
has been affected by PTSD since
1991, and learning to live with
its effects since 2009. He
and his wife Angela have raised
eight children and more than a
dozen foster children.
Waiting
for Psychoanalysis
Panelists:
Lisa Baraitser, Ph.D., Jocelyn
Catty, Ph.D.,
Raluca
Soreanu, Ph.D. and Laura
Salisbury, Ph.D. (moderator)
"Waiting
for
Psychoanalysis"
includes three
researchers who
form part of a
5-year research
project on what
it means to wait
in and for
healthcare to
reflect on how
psychoanalysis
helps us to
understand the
difficulties and
potentialities
of waiting
within
contemporary
lives that are
increasingly
experienced as
frenetic,
harried and
time-starved,
while also,
paradoxically,
impeded and
stuck.
Psychoanalysis
is a practice
that takes and
uses time
self-consciously,
working and
thinking through
rhythms that run
counter to the
values of
immediacy,
productivity and
efficiency that
orientate many
of our
experiences of
contemporary
life. By
committing to
the long
timeline of
psychoanalysis,
the patient is
brought into
contact with
something
different: a
demand for
patience, for
suffering and
endurance in
which processes
of mourning, or
the emergence
and working
through of
traumatic memory,
cannot be sped
up but must be
endured through
time and
ameliorated
through a
practice of
endurance on the
part of both
patient and
analyst. This
discussion will
include academic
researchers who
also work
clinically with
patients in
three different
psychoanalytically-informed
traditions to
reflect on how
psychoanalytic
modes of care
function through
practices of
waiting with -
through the
suspension of
the everyday,
the repetitions
of the
transference and
processes of
working through.
They will
discuss what
this particular
use of time
might have to
offer a social
world in which,
at one level,
waiting seems
increasingly
devalued or
intolerable,
while at another
the promises of
a progressive
future seem to
be slipping from
view - where all
one can do it
wait.
'Waiting Times'
is a 5-year,
interdisciplinary
project funded
by the Wellcome
Trust working to
explore the
difficulties and
potentialities
of what it means
to wait in and
for healthcare.
2 CME/CE credits
offered.
References
of Interest
1. Baraitser, L. 2017.
Enduring Time. London:
Bloomsbury.
2. Baraister, L. 2019 (forthcoming).
Psychoanalytic Feminism. The
Routledge Handbook of
Psychoanalytic Political
Theory. Ed. Yannis
Stavrakakis. London &
New York: Routledge.
3. Catty,
J. 2019 (forthcoming).
Compassion, Sadism, Words
and Song: Development and
breakdown in the intensive
psychotherapy of an adopted
boy. Journal of Child
Psychotherapy.
4. Gentile,
K. (2016). Generating
Subjectivity through the
Creation of Time. Psychoanal.
Psychol., 33(2):264-283.
5. Salisbury,
L, and Baraister, L. 2020 (forthcoming).
Depressing Time: Waiting,
Melancholia and the
Psychoanalytic Practice of
Care. The Time of
Anthropology. Ed. Elisabeth
Kirtsoglou and Bob Simpson.
London: Bloomsbury.
6. Soreanu, R. (2018).
The Psychic Life of
Fragments: Splitting from
Ferenczi to Klein. Am. J.
Psychoanal., 78(4):421-444.
Dr.
Lisa Baraitser is
Professor of Psychosocial
Theory in the Department of
Psychosocial Studies at
Birkbeck, University of London.
She is a psychoanalytic
psychotherapist, and a final
year Candidate at the
Institute of Psychoanalysis,
London, where she maintains a
practice alongside her
academic post. She is the
author of the award-winning
monograph Maternal
Encounters: The Ethics of
Interruption (Routledge)
and a recent monograph, Enduring
Time (Bloomsbury)
that examines the relation
between time and care in late
liberalism. She is formerly
co-editor of the journal Studies
in Gender and Sexuality, and
currently editor of Studies
in the Maternal. She
is the joint lead researcher,
with Professor Laura Salisbury,
of 'Waiting Times,' a Wellcome
Trust funded 5-year research
project on the temporalities
of healthcare. She has
published widely on motherhood,
psychoanalysis, gender and
sexuality, time and care.
Dr.
Jocelyn Catty is
a psychoanalytic Child and
Adolescent Psychotherapist
working in the UK's National
Health Service and is Research
Lead for the child
psychotherapy doctoral
training at the Tavistock
Centre. Formerly Senior
Research Fellow in Mental
Health at St. George's,
University of London, she ran
a number of studies in social
psychiatry including an
international randomized
controlled trial funded by the
European Commission. She has
published fifty academic
papers in psychiatry,
alongside a book on the
representation of sexual
violence in English literature
in the early modern period.
She has also recently edited a
treatment manual for
short-term psychoanalytic
psychotherapy for adolescents
with severe depression for the
Tavistock Clinic Series with
Karnac.
Dr.
Raluca Soreanu is
Reader in Psychoanalytic
Studies at the University of
Essex, UK. She is a practicing
psychoanalyst, affiliated to
the Círculo Psicanalítico do
Rio de Janeiro and of the
Instituto de Estudos da
Complexidade, Brazil. She is
the author of Working-Through
Collective Wounds: Trauma,
Denial, Recognition in the
Brazilian Uprising (Palgrave,
2018). She has published on
psychoanalytic theory,
psychosocial studies and the
sociology of creativity.
Dr. Laura
Salisbury is
Professor of Modern Literature
and Medical Humanities at the
University of Exeter. She has
published widely on modern and
contemporary literature and on
the relationship between
literary modernism and
neuroscientific conceptions of
language. She is joint
Principal Investigator on 'Waiting
Times' (Wellcome Trust) and is
also a Principal Investigator
in Exeter's Wellcome Trust
Centre for the Cultures and
Environments of Health. As
part of her work on 'Waiting
Times', she is writing a
cultural history of waiting in
modernity.
Katerina
Fotopoulou's Video
Lecture on "Mentalising
Homeostasis" -
an open group
discussion
Saturday,
October 5, 2019, 10 am -
12 pm
The Marianne &
Nicholas Young Auditorium
247 E. 82nd Street, NYC
Free and open to the
public
RSVP is appreciated
but not required; first come,
first-seated
To
register, click HERE, visit nypsi.org,or
call 212.879.6900
The clinical
implications of the
research findings on
affective touch are
just beginning to be
explored.
Katerina Fotopoulou,
one of the pioneers
and leading
researchers in this
field, has contributed
a wonderful course on
the topic, entitled
"Mentalising
Homeostasis:
From Body to
Self," to the
NPSA Learning platform
(www.npsalearning.org).
We will discuss this
rich lecture in an
open group discussion.
Participants are
encouraged to view the
course (requires
purchase for $30;
discount for current
members of the
International
Neuropsychoanalysis
Society) in advance.
To purchase and access
Dr. Fotopoulou's
course, visit: www.npsalearning.org/courselibrary
In addition,
participants can read
the ground-breaking
article "Mentalizing
homeostasis: The
social origins of
interoceptive
inference" by
Fotopoulou &
Tsakiris (Neuropsychoanalysis,
2017) by downloading
the open access
version here:
Works in Progress
Seminar: The
Interplay of Fact
and Fiction in
Narrative
How did your story begin? Where
should the narrative start? Who
should tell it? What are the
facts that will give it a firm
underpinning, provide the stuff
of life, but allow the story to
move forward to its inevitable
but surprising end? These are
some of the questions the
presenters will try to answer in
a discussion of writing
historical fiction using their
own texts as examples: The
Peacock Feast by
Lisa Gornick and Dreaming
for Freud by
Sheila Kohler.
No
CME or CE credits offered.
Lisa
Gornick is
a graduate of the
doctoral program
in clinical
psychology at Yale
and the
psychoanalytic
training program
at Columbia, where
she is on the
voluntary faculty. Hailed
by NPR as
"one of the
most perceptive,
compassionate
writers of fiction
in America...immensely
talented and
brave," she
is the author of
the novels The
Peacock Feast, Louisa
Meets Bear,
and Tinderbox-all
published by Sarah
Crichton Books/Farrar,
Straus and Giroux,
and Picador-as
well as A
Private Sorcery,
published by
Algonquin. Her
essays have
appeared in The
New York Times,The
Paris Review,Real
Simple,Salon,Slate, and The
Wall Street
Journal.
Sheila
Kohler is
the author of ten
novels,
three volumes of
short fiction, a
memoir, and
many essays. Her
most recent novel
is Dreaming
for Freud,
based on the Dora
case. Her memoirOnce
We Were Sisters was
published in 2017
by Penguin as well
as in England and
Spain. She
has won numerous
prizes including
the O. Henry and
been included in
Best American
Short Stories. Her
work has been
published in
thirteen countries.
She has taught at
Columbia, Sarah
Lawrence,
Bennington and at
Princeton. Her
novel, Cracks was
made into a film
with directors
Jordan and Ridley
Scott with Eva
Green playing Miss
G. You can
find her blog at
Psychology Today
under Dreaming for
Freud.
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 Novembre 2019.
Cordiali
saluti...
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prochaine newsletter sera envoyée en Novembre 2019. Cordiales
salutations.
The next newsletter is in November 2019.
Best
regards.
Giuseppe
Leo
Direttore
Responsabile (Editor) rivista di psicoanalisi applicata Frenis
Zero