Transference Dynamics, Family, and Institution
Houssier, Florian
Transference Dynamics, Family, and Institution - 2012.
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What the psychoanalyst says when treating a psychotic patient can be experienced as bearing with it a menacing otherness, opening up the way for a travail of mental vagrancy, or even of suffering; there is the inherent risk of the patient being told what they cannot bear to hear. On the basis of psychotherapy in treating a psychotic adult patient in a day hospital, the article explores three differentiated but related registers of that patient’s problems: the transferential dynamic, the family environment and the healing institution. Reference to the works of W. Bion allows concepts of confusion and projective identification to be illustrated.
Transference Dynamics, Family, and Institution - 2012.
16
What the psychoanalyst says when treating a psychotic patient can be experienced as bearing with it a menacing otherness, opening up the way for a travail of mental vagrancy, or even of suffering; there is the inherent risk of the patient being told what they cannot bear to hear. On the basis of psychotherapy in treating a psychotic adult patient in a day hospital, the article explores three differentiated but related registers of that patient’s problems: the transferential dynamic, the family environment and the healing institution. Reference to the works of W. Bion allows concepts of confusion and projective identification to be illustrated.
Réseaux sociaux