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What is the function of faith and trust in psychoanalysis?
Full text linkUnlike other concepts such as 'illusion, 'capacity to tolerate frustration' and 'libidinal investment, the concept of faith has not yet found a well-defined position in psychoanalytic theory. Bion focused on faith and placed it in an unusual context: scientific work. Through the Act of Faith a researcher can give some consistency to certain ideas, hunches or intuitions that may appear during observation, though he cannot represent them by existing theory. Through the Act of Faith an analyst can 'see', 'hear' and 'feel' those mental phenomena, the reality of which leaves no practising psychoanalysts in doubt, even if they cannot represent them by current formulations. In this paper the author aims to expand Bion proposals into the clinical and therapeutic fields. In the first part, the author examines how faith and trust overlap, and how they depart from each other and he gives an example. Faith possesses an igniting and driving force which trust doesn't possess to the same extent. 117 the second part, the author looks at F as a psychic function of the analyst, which aids him in supporting a depressed and hopeless patient while waiting for the return of the patient desire to live. In the final part, he focuses on F from the patient point of view and studies the transformations of F that may occur during an analysis
The F factor: Modifications in the course of group psycho-therapy training
No full textThe author discusses the importance in group therapy training of the faith concept (F), brought into psychoanalysis by Bion who considered it as an essential component of any scientific approach. The act of faith, is the capacity of having faith in certain hypotheses and intuitions that surface during work and which correspond to facts, the existence of which are ignored by the more ordinary theories. He contends that the global result of the training will depend on the capacity of teachers, students and the school in general to cope with this task of managing the delegated F factor and then to promote the personal new appropriation in given time
Free Associations, Free Flowing Discussions and Group Thought
No full textThe author makes two basic points, ones that have not been elucidated in the literature. The first is that when group associations coalesce, in some sort of unified way, they form in two levels. One level is the manifest theme that the therapist perceives and, in traditional group-as-a-whole approaches, interprets. The second level, the deeper one, is an emerging fantasy, that is, one that has yet to be defined. The existence of these two levels has clinical significance. The classic group-as-a-whole approaches dealt only with the first level. Notably, such approaches often proved ineffective. The reason, according to my thesis, is that they failed to address the second, deeper level
Grupo. Manual de psicoanálisis de grupo
No full textSi tratta della traduzione spagnola del libro Gruppo prima edizione italian
Gruppenprozesse. Theorie und Praxis der psychoanalitichen gruppentherapie.
No full textSi tratta della traduzione tedesca della nuova edizione del libro "Gruppo" che è comparsa in Italia nel 2004.
Il libro è stato tradotto e pubblicato con il contributo del SEPS (Segretariato europeo per le pubblicazioni scientifiche)
Viene riportato anche un secondo ISBN col numero:3-89806-455-
Il calore segreto degli oggetti: a proposito di un saggio di Ernesto de Martino
No full textErnesto de Martino, in “Apocalissi culturali e apocalissi psicopatologiche”, stabilisce una correlazione tra condizioni culturali e sociali di una comunità e comparsa di sintomatologia psichiatrica in individui che ne fanno parte. Il suo discorso va al di là dello specifico tema delle apocalissi culturali e della sindrome psicopatologica di “fine del mondo”, per cogliere una più generale articolazione tra benessere o patologia psichica, comunità ed individuo. Le sue osservazioni possono risultare utili per comprendere la sofferenza, legata all’emigrazione ed allo sradicamento
Enactment : destructivité? Notes théoriques et cliniques
No full textIndicizzata su Psydoc-France in francese ed inglese. La versione elettronica è disponibile sul portale Cairn : www.cairn.info/revue.française-depsychanalyse.ht
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