{"title":"Psychoanalysis in the time of coronavirus: From an onboard logbook during the pandemic","authors":"Anna Maria Loiacono","doi":"10.1080/0803706x.2023.2259646","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"AbstractDuring the lockdown, we, as analysts, had to face new situations, which disrupted our habitual mode of working and challenged our ability to adapt. I discovered that having a supportive relationship among colleagues became more important than ever. I will discuss the influence that the transition from in-presence sessions to the online modality during the pandemic has had on the therapeutic process and setting. The adoption of new relational working procedures instead of the usual in-person session has revived the centrality of those themes having to do with the body and sensoriality in psychoanalysis, including the possibility of recognizing and integrating dissociated embodied traumatic experiences, ones that are non-verbalized, and not able to be verbalized. I will outline a clinical case to detail the difficulties encountered in my clinical practice, in which the contingency strategy, based on working remotely, continued to guarantee that sense of security necessary to enable the possibility of dreaming together and freely exploring – introducing, however, within the relationship, aspects of Ferenczi and Rank’s “active technique,” which would not have occurred in person, and which certainly impacted the process in a different way, while always permitting the identification and assimilation of dissociated experiences.Key words: psychoanalysiscoronavirusembodied traumatic experiencesactive techniqueonline psychotherapyhope Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsAnna Maria LoiaconoAnna Maria Loiacono is a relational/interpersonal psychotherapist and psychoanalyst who lives and works in Florence, Italy. She is President of the Training Department of the Sullivan Institute of Analytic Psychotherapy of Florence. Faculty, Training and Supervising Analyst at the same Institute of Analytic Psychotherapy of Florence, since 1991. She is also: Vice President OPIFER (Confederation of Italian Relational Psychoanalyst Societies), Executive and Delegate Member of the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies and Editorial Reader of the International Forum of Psychoanalysis. She has published clinical and theoretical articles, some of them in English, and the Italian version of “The Unformulated Experience” by D. B. Stern. Her book, La teoria interpersonale di H. S. Sullivan e la Clinica della Dissociazione [The Interpersonal Theory of H. S. Sullivan and the Clinical Treatment of Dissociation], Ed. Termanini, Genova, was published in 2016. She was the Chair of the XX IFPS Forum, held in Florence on October 17-20, 2018, dealing with “New Faces of Fear: Ongoing Transformations in our Society and in Clinical Practice”.","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9000,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706x.2023.2259646","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHOANALYSIS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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AbstractDuring the lockdown, we, as analysts, had to face new situations, which disrupted our habitual mode of working and challenged our ability to adapt. I discovered that having a supportive relationship among colleagues became more important than ever. I will discuss the influence that the transition from in-presence sessions to the online modality during the pandemic has had on the therapeutic process and setting. The adoption of new relational working procedures instead of the usual in-person session has revived the centrality of those themes having to do with the body and sensoriality in psychoanalysis, including the possibility of recognizing and integrating dissociated embodied traumatic experiences, ones that are non-verbalized, and not able to be verbalized. I will outline a clinical case to detail the difficulties encountered in my clinical practice, in which the contingency strategy, based on working remotely, continued to guarantee that sense of security necessary to enable the possibility of dreaming together and freely exploring – introducing, however, within the relationship, aspects of Ferenczi and Rank’s “active technique,” which would not have occurred in person, and which certainly impacted the process in a different way, while always permitting the identification and assimilation of dissociated experiences.Key words: psychoanalysiscoronavirusembodied traumatic experiencesactive techniqueonline psychotherapyhope Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsAnna Maria LoiaconoAnna Maria Loiacono is a relational/interpersonal psychotherapist and psychoanalyst who lives and works in Florence, Italy. She is President of the Training Department of the Sullivan Institute of Analytic Psychotherapy of Florence. Faculty, Training and Supervising Analyst at the same Institute of Analytic Psychotherapy of Florence, since 1991. She is also: Vice President OPIFER (Confederation of Italian Relational Psychoanalyst Societies), Executive and Delegate Member of the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies and Editorial Reader of the International Forum of Psychoanalysis. She has published clinical and theoretical articles, some of them in English, and the Italian version of “The Unformulated Experience” by D. B. Stern. Her book, La teoria interpersonale di H. S. Sullivan e la Clinica della Dissociazione [The Interpersonal Theory of H. S. Sullivan and the Clinical Treatment of Dissociation], Ed. Termanini, Genova, was published in 2016. She was the Chair of the XX IFPS Forum, held in Florence on October 17-20, 2018, dealing with “New Faces of Fear: Ongoing Transformations in our Society and in Clinical Practice”.
摘要在封锁期间,作为分析人员的我们不得不面对新的情况,这打破了我们习惯的工作模式,挑战了我们的适应能力。我发现同事之间相互支持的关系变得比以往任何时候都重要。我将讨论大流行期间从现场会议到在线模式的过渡对治疗过程和环境的影响。新的关系工作程序的采用取代了通常的面对面会议,使那些在精神分析中与身体和感官有关的主题重新焕发了中心地位,包括识别和整合分离的具体化创伤经历的可能性,这些经历是不可用语言表达的,也无法用语言表达的。我将概述一个临床案例来详细说明我在临床实践中遇到的困难,在这种情况下,基于远程工作的应急策略继续保证了安全感,这种安全感是实现共同梦想和自由探索的可能性所必需的——然而,在这种关系中,引入了Ferenczi和Rank的“主动技术”的各个方面。这不会发生在个人身上,这肯定会以不同的方式影响过程,同时总是允许识别和同化游离的经验。关键词:精神分析冠状病毒具身创伤经历主动技术在线心理治疗希望披露声明作者未报告潜在利益冲突作者简介:anna Maria Loiacono anna Maria Loiacono是一名关系/人际心理治疗师和精神分析学家,生活和工作在意大利佛罗伦萨。她是佛罗伦萨沙利文分析心理治疗研究所培训部的主席。自1991年起,在佛罗伦萨分析心理治疗研究所担任教员、培训和监督分析师。她也是:OPIFER(意大利关系精神分析学会联合会)副主席,国际精神分析学会联合会的执行和代表成员以及国际精神分析论坛的社论读者。她发表过临床和理论方面的文章,其中一些是英文的,还出版过d·b·斯特恩(D. B. Stern)的意大利版《未成形的经验》(the Unformulated Experience)。她的书La teoria interpersonale di h.s. Sullivan e La Clinica della Dissociazione [h.s. Sullivan的人际理论和分离的临床治疗],Ed. Termanini,热那亚,于2016年出版。她是2018年10月17日至20日在佛罗伦萨举行的第XX届IFPS论坛的主席,该论坛讨论了“恐惧的新面孔:我们社会和临床实践中的持续变革”。