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{"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":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706x.2023.2259646","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":"128 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135342026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The digital age and psychoanalysis: New frontiers of the setting and therapeutic challenges","authors":"Serena Previdi, Anna Buzzi, Mariagiovanna Cozza","doi":"10.1080/0803706x.2023.2248429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706x.2023.2248429","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractWe reflect on the concept of the setting in psychoanalysis, and how it has been radically reconsidered given the impact of the SARS-CoV-19 pandemic on human interactions and moving from face-to-face to online sessions. The rapidity of going from seeking interaction to a fear of possible contagion led some professionals to adopt a sudden change of setting. Although the concept of setting seems to come from the classical Freudian method, Freud never spoke about it explicitly, although it was subsequently developed from his writings. Only in the 1960s and 70s was the setting perceived as the very object of psychoanalytic exploration. Since the psyche in psychoanalysis is conceived as a spatially extended entity, this paper discusses the concepts of space and time (external setting) and the mental state of both the patient and analyst (internal setting). We investigate how these aspects have changed as a result of the use of technology. What changes have taken place at the perceptual level in the patient and analyst? What differences are there with respect to the presence/absence of the other’s body? We use our own reflections of our personal experiences of undergoing face-to-face and online sessions to reveal the differences between them.Key words: settingspacebodyInternettechniquepsychoanalysis Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 It is specified that, within the clinical vignettes, names and any other personal references have been changed in order to respect people’s privacy by making them completely unrecognizable.Additional informationNotes on contributorsSerena PrevidiSerena Previdi graduated with a double degree in clinical psychology from the Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Italy, and Universidad del Rosario, Bogotà, Colombia. In 2016 she undertook a postgraduate internship at the Clinica Santo Thomas in Bogotà, taking charge of patients suffering from psychosis and began her first personal analysis, with clinical psychologist Dr Mario Guerrero. Serena Previdi has been a member of the order of psychologists of the Emilia-Romagna, and at the Erich Fromm Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Bologna. Starting that same year, she began her second personal analysis with psychoanalyst and SPI associate member Dr. Fava Ramona.Since 2021 she has been a resident at the Clinical Psychology Service, and Pathological Addiction Service, AUSL Modena.Anna BuzziAnna Buzzi graduated in clinical psychology from Carlo Bo University, Urbino, Italy, with a thesis entitled “Prison Police: Organization, Professional Mission and Psychosocial Risks” as a continuation of the interest that had already developed in this area from a three-year thesis where attention was placed on the social reintegration of prisoners. She subsequently undertook a postgraduate internship in a therapeutic community, for people with pathological addictions and a double diagnosis and in alternative measures to","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136023174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Harry Stack Sullivan and Stephen Mitchell in Italy – A historical and a personal account ¹","authors":"Marco Conci","doi":"10.1080/0803706x.2023.2252215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706x.2023.2252215","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractHaving introduced readers to the history of the reception of psychoanalysis in Italy, the author reconstructs the history of the Italian reception of the work of Harry Stack Sullivan (1892–1949) and Stephen A. Mitchell (1946–2000). Sullivan’s work played a fundamental role in adding to the “new Italian psychiatry,” founded by Franco Basaglia (1824–1980), the psychodynamic dimension it lacked, creating a new convergence between the social and psychological dimensions of psychiatry. Mitchell’s work played a fundamental role in the development of the Italian tradition of psychoanalytic psychotherapy originally articulated by Gaetano Benedetti (1920–2013) and Pier Francesco Galli, following their reception of Sullivan’s work. This phenomenon coincided, from an institutional point of view, with the emergence of a network of Italian institutes and societies affiliated to the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies, which had been originally cofounded by the William Alanson White Institute – the institute founded by Sullivan in 1943, where Mitchell himself trained as a psychoanalyst at the end of the 1970s. Interpersonal and relational psychoanalysis also ended up finding a place in the work of several colleagues of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, as well as allowing the foundation of several institutes and societies affiliated to the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. The author reconstructs this chapter of Italian psychoanalysis from both a historiographical and a personal point of view.Key words: history of psychoanalysisSullivanMitchellinterpersonal and relational psychoanalysisItaly Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsMarco ConciMarco Conci, MD, has been the coeditor-in-chief of IFP since June 2007. He is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst working in Munich and Trento, and a member of both the IFPS and the IPA.","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135096546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Restoring the links in countertransference","authors":"Aleksandras Kulak","doi":"10.1080/0803706x.2023.2248427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706x.2023.2248427","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractPsychoanalytic theory and practice consider both transference and countertransference as cornerstones for understanding those complicated psychological phenomena which psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy bring to light. The relationship between a patient and a psychoanalyst has been the crucial point on which our attention and interest is focused. In the intersubjective space of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, all interactions between the patient and the analyst are considered to mutually influence each participant of the analytic dyad. Together with patients, clinicians get involved in ambiguous, uncanny and unavoidable enactments. The understanding of the latter requires from a psychoanalyst not only to contain the patient's anxiety and reflect on the patient's inner feelings but also to stay open to the gamut of feelings, anxieties and conflicts that arise from the professional's experience. I suggest that accomplishing the complicated task of understanding both the patient`s and his own feelings and experience leads the analyst to the necessity of restoring links with himself. By means of clinical material, I make an attempt to show how the process of understanding an uncanny enactment becomes for the therapist a process of restoring the links in countertransference which, in turn, enables the therapist to interpret the patient's specific difficulties.Key words: countertransferencetransferencelinksrestorationenactmentdepressive conflict Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 The same Lithuanian phrase “viso labo” can be used with both meanings – AK.2 Italics mine – AK.3 Laume – singular; Laumes – plural. Lithuanian.4 In the legend, a lad went past a bathhouse, opened the door and saw the breeding Laumės inside. He started running and Laumės chased him. After running to his yard, he closed the gate, but Laumės climbed over it. The lad was shut in after he had run into the farmhouse. However, after several days Laumės caught him and tore him to bits (Dundulienė, Citation2008).Additional informationNotes on contributorsAleksandras KulakAleksandras Kulak, MD, is a psychiatrist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist. He is a teacher of psychoanalytic theory and supervisor at the Kaunas Society for the Studies of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IFPS). He is also a psychoanalyst in training at the Swedish Psychoanalytical Association (IPA).","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135093919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Adolescence as a phenomen<i>on of the field and affection as a vector of</i> at-one-ment <i>in the analytic relationship</i>","authors":"Angelo Antonio Moroni","doi":"10.1080/0803706x.2023.2237710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706x.2023.2237710","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractI believe that clinical work with adolescents provides extremely valuable contributions in the Field Theory area. The observation and care of adolescents has always made me think how growth is a painful process of separation from and rediscovery of the lost object in après-coup, how important it is for us analysts not to lose touch with our human gaze, and above all with the meaning of the affection that guides our clinical listening, especially when we are dealing with minors who are “hard to reach” (Joseph 1975). Therefore, I consider affection a genuine theoretical and technical prerequisite – I could say, a “parameter” – for emotionally contacting the adolescent in the symbolic and affective place where they happen to be: in other words, for fostering a unison. So, in this paper, I would like to try and set up a dialectic between the concepts of affection, unison (Bion 1962) and subjectivation in adolescence, understood as a field and group phenomenon.Key words: adolescenceaffectionunisonfield theorygroupco-individuality Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Translator’s note: an untranslatable pun is being made here on “tifo,” the disease typhus, and “fare il tifo,” to be a fan of, to root for, support.2 Aliprandi, Pelanda, & Senise (Citation1990), and more recently Goisis (Citation2014), claims that those who work with adolescents know very well how important it is for the analyst to learn to oscillate emotionally within a narcissistic transference that the young person imposes on the relationship with the therapist because of their typical mode of functioning intrapsychically or relationally. We find Bolognini (Citation2005) following the same line of research.3 Gesuè (Citation2015) reminds us that Freud warns against an affection full of “sentimentality.” The excess underlined by this term would thus refer to a defect of adult psychic functioning: that is, the adult’s defective ability to contain a quantity of early erotic investment in relation to the child. Gesuè goes further and interprets the “sentimental affection” to which Freud refers as the adults’ need to defend themselves against the anxiety that the relationship with the baby arouses in them. Personally, I believe that this “degeneration” of affection has to do with the adult/parental experience of a sort of “betrayal” by the adolescent of the original narcissistic pact between parents and children. That is, on becoming an adolescent, “His Majesty the Baby” (Freud, Citation1914), betrays the parent’s narcissistic expectations by claiming their own narcissistic spaces that are under construction, and for this very reason they are in need of an authentic affection.4 Translator’s note: this is an allusion to the title of the Jack Nicholson film, which is known in Italy as Qualcosa è cambiato (Something has changed).5 A page reference is unavailable as the Seminar is unpublished and the available photocopy is unpaginated.","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":"239 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135394701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From the abyss of loneliness to the bliss of solitude: Cultural, social and psychoanalytic perspectives","authors":"A. Stefana","doi":"10.1080/0803706x.2023.2242607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706x.2023.2242607","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42377773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"In the footsteps of Francesco Corrao: Reflections on a number of key problems in contemporary psychoanalysis","authors":"G. Di Chiara","doi":"10.1080/0803706x.2023.2232136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706x.2023.2232136","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43181098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Burdening guilt: Theoretical and clinical features","authors":"F. Gazzillo, Jessica Leonardi","doi":"10.1080/0803706x.2023.2236343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706x.2023.2236343","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44861935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Politics, psychoanalysis, and large group identity","authors":"M. Gonzalez-Torres","doi":"10.1080/0803706x.2023.2234682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706x.2023.2234682","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48480892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Interpretation in a “personal” field perspective*","authors":"F. Borgogno","doi":"10.1080/0803706x.2023.2210270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706x.2023.2210270","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47140755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}