Nicola Abel-Hirsch (Great
Britain) is a training psychoanalyst
and supervisor in the British Psychoanalytical
Society.
She held the course of Philosophy and psychoanalysis at the University College
of London, and Bion seminars at The Lincoln Centre for Psychotherapy.
Radu
Clit (France) is a psychoanalyst, member of the Paris
Psychoanalytical Society. He published many papers of psychoanalysis among which
we mention Totalitarian Frame and Narcissistic Functioning, EFG, 2004.
Title of the
paper: Contradictions and
evolution in defining the latency period
Abstract: Defined by Freud at Fliess's suggestion, the latency
period was considered in Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality as having a
biological origin. One of the many dissident students, Reich, set forth the
view that this was in fact related to a culturally induced development stage
due to the child’s sexual repression. Nowadays, many authors consider that the
latency period disappeared or changed noticeably (F. Guignard). The case of a
girl with whom I made a brief psychotherapy in an institution shows the
effect of the relationship with the parents on the installation of the latency
period. In general, it appears that in fact, in order for the latency period to
install some special conditions are needed. This view is possible due to
differences of concept regarding the latency period in psychoanalysis.
Therefore, pluralism appears as a useful framework for finding necessary
references for clinical reflection.
Georgiana
Dobrescu (Romania) is a full member of the RSP, a senior
psychologist in clinical psychology and psychoanalysis, a founding member of
the Romanian Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy .
Title of the
paper: The relation between
psychoanalytic theory/theories and the analyst’s thinking. The way in which the
analyst uses theory in the clinical relation
Abstract: The present paper aims at a brief analysis of the
way in which psychoanalytic theory/theories influence the analyst’s thinking.
The author takes into account the following findings: there are currently
several psychoanalytic theories/schools that try to explain psychic reality,
also, in every psychoanalytic society there are several different groups, for
instance the Freudian group, the Kleinian one, the Winnicottian one, the
intersubjective one, the relational one,
etc. It is well-known that the person who becomes a psychoanalyst - the
candidate - goes through, during his training, a series of psychoanalytic
theories and approaches. But no theory is exhaustive, it cannot fully explain
psychic reality. Moreover, often patients don’t have a problem circumscribed to
a particular pathology, but rather a variety of manifestations belonging to
different developmental stages. In this context, how is the analyst’s thinking
formed, and how does he/she think and feel in relation to the patient? How does
an analyst come to be a thinker, how does he refine his/her thinking so that it
is adapted to each patient's mind and problems? These are some of the ideas
that the present paper takes into account."
Roland
Havas (France) – is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, member of the Paris
Psychoanalytical Society, director of the University Hospital BAPU in
Luxembourg. Among the works published we mention Dernières séances freudiennes:
Des patients de
Freud racontent,
2005, written with Paul Roazen.
Title of the
paper: Les boites a
outils du psychanalyste: le psychanalyste, sa clinique et ses theories.
Cornel
Irimia (Romania) is full member
of the RSP with a PhD in psychopatholgy and psychoanalysis, University
of Paris VII. He
coordinated various research projects within the the „Generatia” Foundation,
The Foundation for child and family and the Association for
Counselling and Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy Bucharest. Among his papers we mention
"Idealization and love", Publishing House „Generatia” Foundation,
2003.
Title of the
paper: The dream in
psychoanalysis
Daniela
Luca (Romania) is full member of the RSP with a PhD in psychopathology
and psychoanalysis, University of Paris VII - "Denis-Diderot", France. She
is a founding member of the „Generatia” Foundation, the
Association for Counselling and Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy Bucharest
(ACPPB), the Association
” Psychosomatics ” in Constanta; Founding member of the
Association of Applied Psychoanalysis. She held many workshops on various topics of
psychoanalysis within the Andre Green Association. Also, she was in the
Organizing Committee of the „Generatia” Foundation Colloquies and the Summer
Schools of Child’s and Teenager’s Psychoanalysis.
Title of the
paper: The psychoanalysis
of transitionality today – creativity, destructivity and survival of the object
Abstract: Through this paper, the author sets forth an
illustration of psychoanalytic theories on transitionality - from D.W.
Winnicott to Didier Anzieu and René Roussillon, as well as the relevance to set
up the analytical framework in working with difficult patients (non-neurotic) according
to "principles of transitional analysis." Transitionality primarily
involves a way of internally-externally operating and reorganizing the
subject’s world by interiorizing/internalizing the subjective experience and
the drives’ movements that determine it. The existence of transitional
phenomena and processes as well as establishing a transitional space imply
acceptance of psychic paradoxes, the ability to cope with the separation, mourning
and melancholia process, appropriate relationships with the object and external
reality, the development of the symbolization function, reshaping of psychic
instances (Superego, Ego-ideal), the increase of the creative capacity and the reflexivity
one etc.
Brindusa
Orasanu (Romania) is a training psychoanalyst and
supervisor within the Romanian Society of Psychoanalysis, Lecturer within the Faculty of Psychology, „Titu Maiorescu” University, Bucharest, Corresponding member Paris Psychoanalytic Society (PPS), Doctor in Fundamental Psychopathology and Psychoanalysis – University of
Paris VII . She published refereed papers in the
field of psychoanalysis, among which" The biography of a psychoanalytic concept:
projective identification", Publishing House Trei, 2005; in French, "L'identification
projective" les enigmes d'un concept (Projective identification, the enigmas
of a concept)", ANRT,
Lille.
Title
of the paper: Do you speak French? – Non, je ne parle que l’
Anglais
Abstract: In order to address
a topic such as pluralism in psychoanalysis, a comprehensive perspective on the
field is needed. This implies familiarity with various psychoanalytic theories
and different technical versions, an
observed fact which is possible for a limited number of psychoanalysts, who would
actually be in contact with various psychoanalytic schools.
Hence, it is desirable for the exploration
to involve work in heterogeneous groups of clinical and theoretical reflection.
The same comprehensive view is needed with respect to the topic of common
ground in psychoanalysis, a topic that currently comes to the fore more and
more, from two points of view, one political and one scientific. This paper sets
forth an outline of pluralism through a longitudinal, historical section of
some psychoanalytic concepts addressed by various theories over many decades
and clinically illustrated at the time.
Daniele Robin (France) teaches
psychology, couple and family psychotherapy at the University of Western
Brittany (Brest et Quimper), Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences <<Victor
Segalen>>. She is a member of the research team CRSPSY, Centre de
recherche en Psychologie Clinique, University of Western Brittany, a member of
the research team UREA 4050Psychopathologie: nouveaux
symptômes et lien social - EA 4050, Université de Rennes II,
president of the association ESKEMM for interdisciplinary research on mental
health, a member of the Société Française de Thérapie
Familiale
Title of the paper: De Freud
à Lacan peut-on parler de pluralisme de la psychanalyse ?
Abstract: In
philosophy, pluralism refers to a doctrine which recognizes the need to
postulate several principles and a variety of models in order to explain the
creation of the world and it states that the beings forming them are
irreducible to a single and absolute substance. Unity in diversity can be a
good summary of the pluralist idea. However, if Lacan as a follower of Freudian
work concepts resumes the princeps notions isolated by him so that they are the
fundamentals of psychoanalysis, recognizing the genius of his master, or do
his models, theoretical and cultural references and the methodology of the psychoanalytic
practice considerably differ from those used by Freud or by his students. Can
we talk about pluralism in psychoanalysis or we might as well say that there
are various psychoanalysis?
After
defining the notion of pluralism and stating the subject of psychoanalysis and
its methodologies, we wonder about the mutations from Freud to Lacan mainly in
terms of different disciplinary fields that influenced their analytic process.
Medicine, biology and painting in Freud’s case, modern mathematics, theology,
philosophy, poetry, literature, anthropology in Lacan’s case allowed them to
develop and enrich psychoanalysis.
Rene
Roussillon (France) is an training psychoanalyst, Professor of Clinical
Psychology - University Lyon 2, France, director of the Department of Clinical
Psychology at the Institute of Psychoanalysis at the University Lyon 2, a member
representing psychology in the Scientific Council of the Psychiatric Hospital
Vinatier, a member representing psychology of the Urban Community Committee in
Lyon, a Rapporteur of the Advisory Committee of the Mayor of Lyon and the
Committee for press releases, a founding member of the Circle of Psychoanalysis
and Neuroscience at the University of Lyon. Since 2001 - Member of the
Committee for a connection of psychoanalysis with the university environment of
the International Psychoanalytic
Association (IPA), representing the French-speaking community within IPA. European
Expert (2006 and 2007) of the "Swiss National Science Foundation,"
focused on research in psychotherapy.
Title of the
paper: Pluralisme et compatibilite
Tamar Schonfield (Great
Britain) is a psychoanalyst,
member of the Association of Independent Psychoanalysts in London. She worked
as an analyst in the Arbours Crisis Centre in London and she currently teaches
and supervises in various psychoanalytic institutes. Among the works published we
mention 'Creative Use of the Countertransference with a Silent Guest at the
Arbours Crisis Centre'. BJP 22(3) 2006, ‘Supervision in Team
Work’. In: J.H, Berke, M. Fagan, G. Mak-Pearce and S. Pierides-Muller (eds) Beyond Madness. Jessica Kingsley Publications, London
and Philadelphia
Stephen Seligman (United States of America) is an IPA training
psychoanalyst (San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis & Psychoanalytic Institute
of Northern California); Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of
California School of Medicine, San Francisco; Member of the editorial board of
the journals Psychoanalytic Dialogues: International Journal of Relational
Perspectives, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Journal of Infant, Child and
Adolescent Psychotherapy, Professor, San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute,
Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, New York University
Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, New York City,
Chairman of the Committee for child mental health, Division of Psychoanalysis
(39), American Psychoanalytic Association. Dr.
Seligman has published over 50 articles that integrate research on child
development with psychoanalytic theories and different clinical problems. For
over 30 years he worked to develop a child-parent psychotherapy model
originally proposed by Selma Fraiberg.
Joyce Slochower (United States of America), is
an IPA training psychoanalyst and supervisor; professor in the Department of
Psychology, Hunter College & Graduate Center; Visiting Clinical Professor,
N.Y.U Postdoctoral Program; Professor Steven Mitchell Center; Professor,
Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (San Francisco). Member of the
editorial boards: Psychoanalytic
Dialogues, International Journal of Psycho-Analysis (2007-2011), Ricerca
Psicoanalitica, Psychoanalytic Perspectives. Joyce Slochower supports
workshops that integrate the Winnicottian
theory
with the relational theory in many institutes in the United States and the
world.
Gabor Szonyi (Hungary) is a training psychoanalyst and
supervisor in the Hungarian Psychoanalytical Society, he is a professor at Han
Groen-Prakken Psychoanalytic Institute for Eastern Europe and he has made extensive
research within the European Psychoanalysis Federation (EPF). He has published various
papers on the topic of training in psychoanalysis.
Veronica
Șandor (Romania) is a training psychoanalyst
and supervisor in RSP, President of the Romanian Society of Psychoanalysis for
three terms, vice president of the RSP with external professional relationships
for two terms, member of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society. She was a lecturer
at the University "Titu Maiorescu" between 1993-2003. She has
published refereed papers in the field of psychoanalysis among which we mention
"Psychoanalytic Itinerary", EFG, Bucharest, "Paradoxes of
psychoanalysis in Romania" Publishing House “Paralela 45”.
Title of the
paper: Clarifying the
concept of pluralism in psychoanalysis. One of the axes in question:
Freud-Ferenczi – Winnicott- Laplanche- Ogden
Abstract: Taking
into account the importance of the pluralism stake in the theory, practice,
ethics and training in present-day psychoanalysis, the paper aims to clarify
the concept of pluralism and its delineation not so much in movements as in
chapters of psychoanalytic theory and practice. The second part will analyze a
significant clinical theoretical axis on object relations theory, for the
importance of the object in constituting the subject and the consequences of
this theory in psychoanalytic technique: the axis Freud-Ferenczi-Winnicott-Laplanche-Ogden.
Irena
Talaban (France) is a psychotherapist, lecturer at the
Catholic Institute of Lille, psychologist-psychotherapist at the Alfred Binet Center, the department for child and adolescent psychiatry (ADNSEA –
Sauvegarde du Nord).
She has written various papers of etnopsychoanalysis and psychoanalysis
including Communist Terror and cultural
resistance. The Pitesti experiment,
EFG, 2007
Title
of the paper: The return of the name
Abstract: The
text addresses issues of filiation and affiliation in the psychotherapy of a
young pubescent girl with behavioral disorders (Elyah, only child of a mixed
couple, French Catholic mother and Ashkenazic Jew father). The working
hypothesis is based on the category of " Judeo-Christian half-blooded",
introduced by Catherine Grandsard. It involves taking into account that the
individual, subjective identity cannot be built outside a person's registration
in a filiation and the filiation exists only within a cultural group membership
(the universal meaning of categories mother, father, child becomes intelligible
in practice only if it is caught in the particular speech of a group). The chaos
of puberty (organic, psychological and social) imposes an approach through the
multiplicity of connections.
M. de Wolf (Holland) is
a trainer psychoanalyst and supervisor in the Dutch Psychoanalytical Society, he
was a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Amsterdam. He
organizes and supports numerous workshops on topics related to the
psychoanalytic technique and he has published numerous papers, among which Psychoanalytische behandelingen:
onderbouwing, uitleg & van toepassing various behandelvormen. Coutinho, Bussum 2011.
Vasile
Dem Zamfirescu (Romania) is a training psychoanalyst and
supervisor in RSP, professor of psychoanalysis at the “Titu Maiorescu”
University, Bucharest, Faculty of Psychology. He introduced psychoanalysis in
the Romanian higher education system through various courses held at various
universities: "Introduction to Psychoanalysis" at the Faculty of
Psychology, “Titu Maiorescu” University (in 1991), "Philosophical
psychoanalysis" and "Philosophy of the unconscious"- the Faculty
of Philosophy, "Techniques of psychoanalysis" and
"Psychoanalysis and pedagogy" at the Faculty of Psychology and
Educational Sciences, University of Bucharest (in 1994). He has published
numerous studies and books on psychoanalysis, including: Ethics and
Psychoanalysis, Scientific Publishing House, Bucharest, 1973; Ethics and
ethology, Scientific and Encyclopaedic Publishing House, Bucharest, 1982,
Between the logic of the heart and the logic of the mind, Publishing House Cartea
Romaneasca,
Bucharest, 1985; In search of the self, Publishing House Cartea Romaneasca, 1994; Ontic
injustice, Publishing House Trei, 1998; Philosophy of the unconscious, vol.1
Publishing House Trei, 1998, Introduction to Freudian and Post-Freudian
Psychoanalysis (2006), Balkan Neurosis (2012).
Title of the paper: Freud
between the clinical practice and theory of technique
Abstract: The
intervention aims to compare the theory of the technique formulated by Freud
with his clinical practice. Aside from Rat Man (1907 – 1908) and Wolf Man, less
known cases from the 20s and 30s are reviewed. A significant difference is
found between the theory of the technique and the clinical practice, meaning that
if by Freudian psychoanalyst one understands a therapist uninvolved, a neutral
interpreter of the resistance and transference, then by clinic, Freud is not
Freudian.
The final part
of the intervention contains an attempt to explain the surprising discrepancy.