Archives par mot-clé : Setting

Enrico de Vito: individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy at adolescence

Resting on the uniqueness of the psychoanalytic process, the author presents the multifold modalities of cure liable to be used with the psychotherapy of adolescents. He analyzes the several implications towards a therapeutic action of the new discoveries on the development of the new born, and on attachment, as well as in the field of neurosciences.
Besides, the author insists on the assessment phase and the best adaptated indications as well as the goals mainly centered on the rehandling of self-reorganization processes through a research on the psychological representations.

Franois Ladame: psychoanalytic treatments at adolescenceÊ: about a few general principles

Several modalities of the psychoanalytic treatment of adolescents exist, yet it necessary to be aware of both their limitations and advantages in order to orientate young patients in the best way possible.
The orientation rests on the assessment of the psychological functioning, it follows a goal that should be reached by means of the chosen treatment (traditional cure, individual psychotherapy, group or family therapy, psychodrama). Such are the general principles adopted by the author in his paper.

Gianluigi Monniello : destinies of violence in an outpatient hospital

In an outpatient hospital, the destinies of violence and its different manifestations depend on the support offered by the therapist, the group of caregivers and the containing institutional setting, which can provide models for symbolization.
The detailed description of the treatment of Ennio, a violent adolescent, give an illustration of the primary therapeutic aim, which is the interiorization of the containing function of the outpatient hospital, considered as a transferential community where tranferences are deployed in an inter-subjective dimension.

Raymond Cahn : subjectality and subjectivation

Starting with Freud’s originary distinction between subject of the ego and object of the ego, and thus between subjectal and objectal poles, subjectality is conceived of as the process that enables the emergence of a creative, autonomous self, shedding light, through their disturbances, on some essential aspects of the setting and of the counter-transference which determine the possibility or impossibility of genuine psychoanalytical work.