{"title":"[Reflections on transference, countertransference, session frequency and the analytic process].","authors":"A Holder","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It is suggested that there is a special correlation between the frequency of sessions in psychoanalytical treatment and the nature of the transferences which evolve and, at the same time, of the countertransference responses elicited in the therapist. This in turn has a crucial bearing on the characteristics of the psychoanalytical process which develops in the course of treatment. These interrelationships are explored with special reference to the treatment of children and adolescents. The author draws upon his experiences with high and low frequency treatments to make comparative assessments. On the basis of clinical examples from both analyses and psychotherapies, the effects of these various settings on the development and intensification of the transference are explored. Similarly, the repercussions on the countertransference are discussed. It is suggested that the density, i.e. the temporal proximity of sessions, provides the optimal conditions for the unfolding of the analytical material, the proliferation of fantasies and the emergence of transference derivatives. As for the therapist this setting provides the space that is necessary to gain the most thorough understanding of the patient's inner world, in particular his or her unconscious. Finally, the nature of the psychoanalytical process is discussed as well as the effects which different settings have on the development and quality of this process. It is suggested that different processes evolve in high frequency as against low frequency settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":513375,"journal":{"name":"La psychiatrie de l'enfant","volume":"38 2","pages":"603-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19635149","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 \"familiarity\" variable in maternal role playing in preschool children].","authors":"B Gourdon, A Laflaquière, I Barré","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present investigation was effected in the context of several other studies involving mother role playing with dolls in children of both sexes aged 2 to 6. Previous studies had shown an interaction between several variables: sex of the child and of the doll, absence of toys representing maternal activities, naked or clothed dolls, playing in couples of same sex or different sexes. The present study involves a new factor: degree of familiarity between children. Three variables can be distinguished in the analysis of couples of friends: (1) exploratory activities of the body of the dolls: smaller children (boys and girls) explore the body for itself whereas older girls do it while assuming a maternal role and older boys take distance from this activity. (2) Involvement in mother role playing: girls are more involved than boys, older children have richer activities than the younger. (3) Choice of activity (mother role playing or other). Observation of activities in non-friends couples emphasize two factors. The first is the same as in couples of friends (exploration of the body of the dolls), the second being the emotional tone of play sessions. Children of both sexes are diversely tolerant of the non-friends situation. This has an important impact on the quality of playing and therefore on representations of playing and on identification behaviors. Analysis of this last factor in the context of the other findings on mother role playing suggests an evolution of mother role playing behaviors and leads to reformulate the parameters involved in the construction of representations of parental roles.</p>","PeriodicalId":513375,"journal":{"name":"La psychiatrie de l'enfant","volume":"37 1","pages":"215-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18969981","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":"[New drug policies: the Geneva example].","authors":"A Mino","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As a consequence of the negative medical social effects of illicit drug use a certain number of countries, during the eighties, have chosen to rethink their therapeutical strategies which were mainly aimed at instoring rapid abstinence. Risk-reduction strategies are varied, including distribution of syringes, substitutive strategies and cultural modification of the drug-addicted representations. Such substantial modifications lead to reflections on both national and international legal systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":513375,"journal":{"name":"La psychiatrie de l'enfant","volume":"37 2","pages":"577-99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18876037","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":"[Incidence of narcissism in adolescent thought processes].","authors":"M Emmanuelli","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Some normally intelligent children succeed in school until they reach adolescence and start to fail in academic achievements. These adolescents display some features which confirm the role of adolescent changes in the phenomenon. This article presents the theoretical considerations, the hypotheses, the methods and the findings of a study exploring the impact of the narcissistic challenges on thought processes and on the mechanism of sublimation. The study involves two groups of adolescents, succeeding and not succeeding in school who underwent a psychological assessment including the WAIS or WISC-R, the Rey Figure, the Rorschach and the TAT. The relevant test factors are presented. Findings show that narcissistic disorders brought about by adolescence has a different impact according to the previous quality of narcissism. It can have a traumatic impact enabling creativity, with varied effects on academic achievement, or a paralyzing impact on thought. It is thus confirmed that adolescence is revealing of the past.</p>","PeriodicalId":513375,"journal":{"name":"La psychiatrie de l'enfant","volume":"37 1","pages":"249-305"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18969982","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":"[Adolescent and child anorexia: various possible common elements].","authors":"M Sanchez-Cardenas, N Mammar, J L Venisse","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Based on their clinical experience, the authors investigate the possible links between early-age anorexia and adolescent anorexia. Although it is not common to find these two types of anorexia in the same person, the occurrence is found indeed. More often, anorexia at an early age has been described as occurring in offsprings of mothers who themselves had presented anorectic behaviors, either at an early age or in adolescence. The authors question the possible role of the psychopathology of mourning in the genesis of anorectic symptoms. They then proceed to some more general considerations on object relations observed in these cases. They suggest that a lack of integration of a satisfactory object relation may breed disturbances in relations and in symbolization of the type frequently observed in the semiology of early age or adolescent anorexia.</p>","PeriodicalId":513375,"journal":{"name":"La psychiatrie de l'enfant","volume":"37 1","pages":"153-78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18532708","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 early development of blind children: the pioneering work of Selma Fraiberg].","authors":"E Sampaio","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The practical and theoretical repercussions of Selma Fraiberg's work are considerable. However, her work remains unrecognized in France. Combining scientific research with clinical work, Fraiberg demonstrated the need for early guidance of blind infants. Furthermore, she pointed out developmental weak points which must be given priority in specialized care. Her findings contributed to a better understanding of blind children as well as sighted children. In this paper, we present some of the most important distinctive features of the development of blind children as pointed out by Fraiberg, and we also present, in an appendix, a bibliography of her work.</p>","PeriodicalId":513375,"journal":{"name":"La psychiatrie de l'enfant","volume":"37 1","pages":"29-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18969983","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":"[Credibility of allegations of under age minors regarding sexual abuse].","authors":"J Y Hayez, J F Vervier, D Charlier","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>When a child under age states he/she has been sexually abused, there seldom exists an objective certainty to support the allegation. Whereas clinicians know that a child who speaks spontaneously probably speaks the truth, it is nonetheless difficult to exclude the possibility of fabulating, lying or mistaking. The error probability is sharply increased when abuse is referred by a parent, specially in a context of parental separation. This article thus presents a review of criteria which help to better assess the truth or error of allegations. Criteria include analysis of the child's talk, application of projective techniques, observation of his/her behavior, etc. The author also describes some differential diagnoses based on the behaviors and sexual allegations of children under age.</p>","PeriodicalId":513375,"journal":{"name":"La psychiatrie de l'enfant","volume":"37 2","pages":"361-94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18876033","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":"[Nightmares--dreams and thought processes].","authors":"B Golse","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>After reviewing the literature concerned with the function of dreaming and especially dreaming in the child, the author presents various theories about the role of dream, with special emphasis on S. R. Palombo's theory on the relationships between dream and memory. The proposed hypothesis, which is based on various elements (as study of nightmares in children, oniric life of pregnant or post-partum women, occurrence of nightmares in autistic children and counter-transferential drowsiness in the analyst) takes nightmares as a more or less complete failure of the primarization processes of primary significants. The issue of dreams and nightmares is being related here with the now classical distinction of psychic processes in originary, primary and secondary ones. To be sure, this is but a mere metapsychological hypothesis which needs to be developed by further clinical studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":513375,"journal":{"name":"La psychiatrie de l'enfant","volume":"37 2","pages":"395-413"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18876034","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 Bertrand Cramer and Francisco Palacio-Espasa method of mother-infant psychotherapy].","authors":"S Lebovici","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":513375,"journal":{"name":"La psychiatrie de l'enfant","volume":"37 2","pages":"415-27; discussion 429-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18876035","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":"[Pathologic cognitive dysharmonies (nosographical pleasure or cognitive analysis)].","authors":"R Besses","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this article we question the validity of the notion of pathological cognitive dysharmonies as developed by B. Gibello on the basis of Piaget's conception of development. We wish to emphasize the following points: 1) that it constitutes in fact a deviation from Piagetian theory; 2) that recent research has lead to a new perspective on development which relativizes the so-called abnormality of cognitive discordances. The very idea of classifying intellectual disturbances is criticized. We also thoroughly analyze the notion of container and emphasize its potential danger when applied in a syncretic manner.</p>","PeriodicalId":513375,"journal":{"name":"La psychiatrie de l'enfant","volume":"37 2","pages":"481-531"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18541032","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}