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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
in MEMORIA DI TONI MORRISON
"The
Root of Black Degeneracy in Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye'
and 'Sula': Collective Unconscious or Perceptions?" di
Kazi Shahidul Islam è un articolo in lingua originale con cui
vogliamo commemorare la grande scrittrice statunitense
scomparsa il 5 agosto 2019. Link: http://web.tiscali.it/cispp/morrison.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".
Alla
pagina http://web.tiscali.it/cispp/riefoloCINEMA.htm
la recensione di Giuseppe Riefolo della Rassegna di Cinema e
Psicoanalisi tenutasi a Spoleto nell'ambito del 62° Festival
dei Due Mondi
NUOVA
PUBBLICAZIONE IN INGLESE
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
ARTICOLI
SPAZIO ROSENTHAL
"VAGINAL
VERITAS" è l'articolo di JILL GENTILE, psicoanalista
newyorchese, che trovate nella nostra rubrica di riflessione
psicoanalitica sul femminile (a cura di Laura Montani).
L'articolo è in doppia versione, inglese ed italiana. Link: http://web.tiscali.it/cispp/gentile.htm
CANALI
YOUTUBE DI FRENIS ZERO
1)
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
2)
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
5)
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
7)
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
3)
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".
4)
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.
5)
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.
6)
NEW ARTICLE IN ROSENTHAL SPACE: "VAGINAL VERITAS.
Thoughts on Misogyny, Psychoanalysis, and Democracy"
by Jill Gentile. Link: http://web.tiscali.it/cispp/gentile.htm
7)
NEW
ARTICLE IN ENGLISH: "REFLECTIONS OF A ROCK 'N' ROLL
DRUMMER-ANALYST" by Heather Ferguson.
9)
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.
10) "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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J.P. Jiménez, O.F. Kernberg, S. Resnik.
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outstanding theoreticians of contemporary
psychoanalysis reflect on psychoanalysis and its
borders and boundaries between it and adjacent
disciplines such as neuroscience, psychiatry, and
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Video launching the next number of Frenis Zero
psychoanalytic journal (june 2017) about "Fundamentalism
and Psychoanalysis"
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.
This panel will
consider the
usefulness today
of the key
contributions of
Margaret Mahler
and her
co-workers John
McDevitt, Manuel
Furer, Anni
Bergman, and
Fred Pine. How
does the
empirical model
of
separation-individuation
inform our
current analytic
thinking and
practice? How do
we view that
model in the
face of recent
research on
attachment? Have
the findings of
this research
influenced the
way we think
about Mahler's
observations? Do
they confirm or
conflict with
her model of
development?
What do we know
about the
relative
attachment of a
baby raised
primarily by a
parent caretaker
as compared with
one raised by a
parent and a
nanny or one in
full-time
daycare? How
have "anxiety
about separation"
and "anxiety
about
separateness"
come to be
confused with
"separation
anxiety?"
These and other
questions will
be addressed at
a roundtable
discussion among
the panelists.
2 CME/CE credits
offered.
References
of Interest:
1. Beebe, B.
Lachmann, F. (2017).
Maternal Self-Critical
and Dependent
Personality Styles and
Mother-Infant
Communication. J. Amer.
Psychoanal. Assn.,
65(3):491-508.
2. Olesker, W. (2012).
Aggression and Impulse
Control in the Analysis of
a Young Boy. Psychoanal.
St. Child, 66:81-108.
3. Pine, F. (2011). Beyond
Pluralism: Psychoanalysis
and the Workings of Mind.
Psychoanal Q.,
80(4):823-856.
4. Sherkow, S.P.,
Weinstein, L., Kamens,
S.R., Megyes, M., Tishman,
L.P. and Williams, C. (2008).
Stock-Still Behavior. Psychoanal.
St. Child, 63:61-79
Diana
Diamond, Ph.D. is
on the faculties of the Doctoral
Program in Clinical Psychology
in the City University of New
York, the NYU Postdoctoral
Program in Psychotherapy and
Psychoanalysis, and the Weill
Cornell Medical College where
she is a Senior Fellow in the
Personality Disorders Institute. She
is also on the faculty of NYPSI
and the New School for Social
Research. She is the
co-author and co-editor of four
books including Attachment
and Sexuality (Taylor &
Francis, Routledge Press), Cinematic
Reflections on the Legacy of the
Holocaust: Psychoanalytic
Perspectives, and the
forthcoming A Clinical
Guide to Treating Narcissistic
Disorders: A
Transference Focused
Psychotherapy. She
has published extensively in the
areas of mental representation
and attachment theory and has
investigated therapeutic changes
in object relations and
attachment in patients with
personality disorders. She
is in private practice of
individual and couple therapy as
well as psychoanalysis.
Alexandra
Murray Harrison, M.D. is
a Training and Supervising
Analyst at the Boston
Psychoanalytic Society and
Institute in Adult and Child and
Adolescent Psychoanalysis, is an
Assistant Professor of
Psychiatry at Harvard Medical
School, and is on the Core
Faculty of the Infant-Parent
Mental Health Program.
Clinically, she specializes in
treating preschool children,
including children with ASD, and
has developed a parent
consultation model that is
widely applied. Dr. Harrison
also founded an NGO, Supporting
Child Caregivers, Inc., which
promotes global infant mental
health through training infant
mental health workers. Dr.
Harrison's research work
includes collaborating on
developing a clinical model that
integrates developmental and
psychoanalytic theory. She has
co-authored a book on autism
with Dr. Susan Sherkow and has
published articles on subjects
such as body image, play therapy,
therapeutic change, and
volunteer consultation. Dr.
Harrison has received many
awards, including the Deutsch
Prize and the Arthur Kravitz
Award for Humanitarian Service.
Wendy
Olesker, Ph.D. is
a Training and Supervising Analyst
at the New York Psychoanalytic
Institute and on the Faculty of
the NYU Postdoctoral Program in
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.
She is Senior Editor of The
Psychoanalytic Study of the Child and
on the Editorial Board of the International
Journal of Psychoanalysis.
From 1991 until 1997, Dr. Olesker
collaborated with John McDevitt
and Anni Bergman following up on
the original Mahler/McDevitt
babies of the
Separation-Individuation Study
and, for the past ten years, she
has been involved with further
follow-up of eight of the original
babies who have been given the
Adult Attachment Interview, along
with other measures, and are now
followed into their sixth decade.
Susan
P. Sherkow, M.D. is
Director of The Sherkow Center for
Child Development and Autism
Spectrum Disorder, a Training and
Supervising Analyst at the
Berkshire Psychoanalytic Institute,
and a Supervising Analyst and
Instructor in the Child and
Adolescent Division of NYPSI. She
is on the faculties of the
Departments of Psychiatry at Mount
Sinai College of Medicine and The
Albert Einstein College of
Medicine. Dr. Sherkow's work,
which has been published in JAPA , The
Psychoanalytic Study of the Child , Psychoanalytic
Inquiry , and
elsewhere, focuses on the topics
of autism spectrum disorder,
primal scene, intergenerational
eating disorders, the diagnosis of
sexual abuse in young children,
watched play, and working in
analysis with children under five.
She is co-author of Autism
Spectrum Disorder: Perspectives
from Psychoanalysis and
Neuroscience . In
2010, Dr. Sherkow received the
Ritvo Prize in Child
Psychoanalysis from the Yale Child
Study Center.
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.
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prossima newsletter verrà inviata nel mese di Ottobre 2019.
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salutations.
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regards.
Giuseppe
Leo
Direttore
Responsabile (Editor) rivista di psicoanalisi applicata Frenis
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