Louis Sass (professeur) , Jérôme Englebert (professeur)
{"title":"Entretien avec Louis Sass par Jérôme Englebert. Réalisé à Rutgers University (New Jersey, USA) le 21 mars 2023","authors":"Louis Sass (professeur) , Jérôme Englebert (professeur)","doi":"10.1016/j.evopsy.2025.01.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.evopsy.2025.01.009","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>The aim of this paper is to present an interview with Louis Sass, Professor of Clinical Psychology at Rutgers University, USA. His work is recognized worldwide, and he has been a visiting professor at several institutions, notably in Paris in 2008–2009, and in Belgium in Ghent, Brussels, and Liège in 2023–2024 (as part of the Chaire Francqui program). The interview was conducted in French during Jérôme Englebert's academic stay in New York and at Rutgers University.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>The method consists of an interview with Louis Sass. The questions concern his main influences and the original readings he makes of authors essential to his work. The transdisciplinary dimension of his work is also highlighted and discussed.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Louis Sass is one of the leading specialists in the phenomenological understanding of schizophrenia. He has published numerous articles and several books on psychopathology, the most famous of which is <em>Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought</em> (Revised edition, Oxford University Press, 2017). This book is an attempt to understand the schizophrenic mind by exploring its parallels with the avant-garde art and thought of 20th century “modernism” and “postmodernism.” <em>Madness and Modernism</em> introduced the concept of hyper-reflexivity, which is today considered, in the field of phenomenological psychopathology, as a crucial element of schizophrenic experience and a characteristic sign of this existential condition. In addition to psychopathology, Professor Sass's contributions are also to be found in the fields of philosophy, psychoanalysis, art, anthropology, and ethnography. He is also interested in the Rorschach test, which he teaches to clinical psychology students at Rutgers University.</div></div><div><h3>Discussion</h3><div>One sentence in this interview neatly sums up Sass's interest in developing original ways of understanding complex phenomena such as psychopathological conditions, but also various forms of literary and artistic expression or, more recently, different ontologies encountered in ethnographic fieldwork: “What interests me is appreciating the sophistication of others who have been seen in an overly simplistic way.”</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>This interview provides an overview of the work of this important author of phenomenological psychopathology.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45007,"journal":{"name":"Evolution Psychiatrique","volume":"90 2","pages":"Pages 332-345"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144090437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Myriam Chérel (Maître de conférence en psychopathologie clinique)
{"title":"Spécificités du transfert dans l’autisme. Du cas Dick à la psychanalyse contemporaine avec les autistes","authors":"Myriam Chérel (Maître de conférence en psychopathologie clinique)","doi":"10.1016/j.evopsy.2025.01.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.evopsy.2025.01.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objectives</h3><div>The aim of this work is to examine the specific features of transference in autism and define the aim of analytic treatments with autistic patients.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>Based on a literature review of the pioneers of psychoanalysis with autistic children, their conceptions of autism, the richness of their clinical teachings, and the analytic treatments they proposed, we formulate the hypothesis of a specific type of transference in clinical work with autistic children and propose a treatment orientation based on the fact that the analyst centers their intervention on the child's spontaneous solution.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>We demonstrate that transference in autism is mediated by the autistic double. Through the double, the subject avoids exchange, protects himself/herself from the encounter with the Other, and constructs his/her autistic dynamic. From the clinician's point of view, agreeing to bear the image of a double favors the construction or deployment of a solution specific to the subject, enabling them to inscribe themselves in the world. From then on, the subject can establish his or her construction with the help of a partner. Witnessing and guaranteeing the autistic person's suppletive construction seems to be the major transferential function, while at the same time opposing any outbursts of the drives.</div></div><div><h3>Discussion</h3><div>Our re-reading of the Dick case shows that the particular status of the object for the autistic person is a reference point from which the treatment can be oriented. This case, like other clinical studies, highlights the specific functioning of autistic thought, its subjective dynamics and particular skills, an originality that requires specific treatment directions.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Analytical practice with autistic patients, as we see it, is based on the functions of the autistic edge: protection, equipping jouissance, opening up to knowledge. When it's not there from the outset, opposing the outbursts of jouissance seems one of the best ways to provoke its election. Tempering the child's jouissance is also the best way to encourage the unfolding of his or her subjective construction. For analysts who work with autistic people, we recommend allowing oneself to bear the image of a double in order to instill change in the immutable, and a gentle forcing towards a beyond of the double.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45007,"journal":{"name":"Evolution Psychiatrique","volume":"90 2","pages":"Pages 261-274"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144090549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ariane Bazan (Professeure des Universités, Directrice d’InterPsy (UR 200919245J))
{"title":"Une proposition neuropsychanalytique novatrice pour une psychologie sans téléologie. À propos de… « Les Coulisses du Cerveau. L’inconscient aux commandes » de Jean-Pol Tassin","authors":"Ariane Bazan (Professeure des Universités, Directrice d’InterPsy (UR 200919245J))","doi":"10.1016/j.evopsy.2025.01.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.evopsy.2025.01.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45007,"journal":{"name":"Evolution Psychiatrique","volume":"90 3","pages":"Pages 536-541"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144779279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pierre Delion (Professeur émérite de pédopsychiatrie, Praticien hospitalier honoraire, Psychanalyste)
{"title":"L'école de Budapest : le retour. À propos de … « Les voix de Budapest » de Nicolas Geissmann","authors":"Pierre Delion (Professeur émérite de pédopsychiatrie, Praticien hospitalier honoraire, Psychanalyste)","doi":"10.1016/j.evopsy.2024.11.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.evopsy.2024.11.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45007,"journal":{"name":"Evolution Psychiatrique","volume":"90 3","pages":"Pages 542-544"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144779280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michel Caire (Psychiatre hospitalier honoraire, Docteur en histoire à l’E.P.H.E. (Paris-Sorbonne))
{"title":"Aux mânes de Constance Pascal. À propos de… « Constance Pascal. Une pionnière de la psychiatrie française (1877–1937) » de Felicia Gordon","authors":"Michel Caire (Psychiatre hospitalier honoraire, Docteur en histoire à l’E.P.H.E. (Paris-Sorbonne))","doi":"10.1016/j.evopsy.2024.11.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.evopsy.2024.11.005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45007,"journal":{"name":"Evolution Psychiatrique","volume":"90 2","pages":"Pages 362-367"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144090534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Philippe Amarilli (psychiatre des hôpitaux, ex-chef de clinique, ex-maître de conférences associé à l’ULP Strasbourg)
{"title":"La psychiatrie est-elle prédisposée au scientisme ?","authors":"Philippe Amarilli (psychiatre des hôpitaux, ex-chef de clinique, ex-maître de conférences associé à l’ULP Strasbourg)","doi":"10.1016/j.evopsy.2024.10.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.evopsy.2024.10.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>The author explores the risk of essentializing pathological entities, over time and in particular nowadays, and reflects on psychiatry's potential predisposition to scientism.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>The author revisits the foundations of psychiatry through the study of several major authors who have had an epistemological reflection on the order of psychiatric discourse (Foucault, Lacan, Swain, Lantéri-Laura, Dowbiggin, etc.).</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Psychiatric logic is characterized by the emergence of a subjective position of exteriority to insanity on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the postulate of an organicity of the morbid process inherent to medical logic, even before any psychiatric knowledge is constituted.</div></div><div><h3>Discussion</h3><div>The author emphasizes the uniqueness of psychiatry within the medical field, in that it has undergone considerable institutional and social development, even though the promise of future knowledge that would fully establish its legitimacy did not materialize during that time.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>The author sees a predisposition to scientism in this assumption of taking a medical approach to mental suffering, combined with a quest for legitimacy within that same field. He concludes that the psychiatric entities that are developing deserve to be questioned in light of the specificities of psychiatric discourse.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45007,"journal":{"name":"Evolution Psychiatrique","volume":"90 1","pages":"Pages 161-168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143159055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Une histoire médicale et philosophique de l’esprit moderne. À propos de…« L’âme machine. L’invention de l’esprit moderne » de Georges Makari","authors":"Yann Craus","doi":"10.1016/j.evopsy.2024.11.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.evopsy.2024.11.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45007,"journal":{"name":"Evolution Psychiatrique","volume":"90 1","pages":"Pages 169-175"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143159021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emmanuel de Becker (Psychiatre infanto-juvénile, Psychothérapeute)
{"title":"Du désir parental de consulter au risque de la maltraitance infanto-juvénile","authors":"Emmanuel de Becker (Psychiatre infanto-juvénile, Psychothérapeute)","doi":"10.1016/j.evopsy.2024.11.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.evopsy.2024.11.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>This contribution proposes to address different aspects of parental posture as regards the decision to seek help (or not) for their child, whether for a physical and/or mental health issue, in order to identify some possible ways of helping the professional. To do this, we will explore different scenarios of the parent's “desire” to consult a medical-psycho-social worker, whose repercussions can result in a situation of child abuse.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>At the risk of being schematic, we propose to group into seven categories the possible postures used by the parent when consulting, or not consulting, a professional for any reason. We accept the arbitrary nature of this classification. It should be noted that each table presented at the moment of the initial professional/parent(s)/child contact can switch from one category to another according to the evolution of several parameters, whether they are individual, relational, or contextual.</div></div><div><h3>Result</h3><div>We will focus on two specific cases that reflect the adult's massive anxieties towards the child, which can lead to the parent's development of delusions about the child, or a more or less elaborate process of using the state of the young person for a defined purpose. Thus, we will present, on the one hand, situations of parental alienation syndrome (PAS) and, on the other hand, situations in which parents “create” symptoms in their children, whose paradigm is represented by Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSP).</div></div><div><h3>Discussion</h3><div>Behind the desire to seek professional help and the parent's concern for the child, there are sometimes hidden situations of parental inadequacy that are difficult to identify. Thus, let us keep in mind the hypothesis of child abuse, when we question the ins and outs of a consultation approach that gives rise to puzzlement, to a disconcerting parental concern… Let us also point out that we evoke these entities by taking as paradigmatic the case of a mother calling on the professional; it is obvious that many situations concern fathers, certainly when it comes to processes of alienation. In any event, it seems to me useful, from the point of view of relevant support for the child and his or her entourage, to address as precisely as possible the relational context encountered. Understanding without judgment is usually the first step in any care and support intervention. Otherwise, the professional is threatened with being merely an actor immersed (in)-voluntarily, (un)-consciously, in a hypothetically abusive system. Ultimately, we have to be careful when we consider that a child is being used as a tool, because there are many situations…</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>One of the risks for the professional is to take at face value the parent's primary request without taking the time to explore the ins and outs of the process. The child in this case is the object of a consultation, no","PeriodicalId":45007,"journal":{"name":"Evolution Psychiatrique","volume":"90 2","pages":"Pages 302-320"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144090383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}