PACE BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REVIEWS


BIBLIOGRAPHY (last updated February 2026)

 
Amati, S. 2008.  “La violencia social traumática: un desafío a nuestra adaptabilidad inconsciente.”  Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Psicoanálisis 11-12: 275-292

Anagnostaki, L., Kollia, I. & Layiou-Lignos, E. (2019) “Implementation of a brief early intervention in times of socio-economic crisis: effects on parental stress.” Journal of Child Psychotherapy 45:55-70

Bagattini, N., López-Gómez, A., Luzardo, M., Dogmanas, D., Brunet, N., & Bernardi, R. (2021). “COVID-19 pandemic in Uruguay and the need for a person and social centered medicine” . International Journal of Person Centered Medicine, 11(1), 7-19. Read abstract

Baker, S., Izzo, P., Trenton, A.  2015.  “Psychodynamic considerations in psycho-therapy using Interpreters: perspectives from psychiatry residents.” Psychodynamic Psychiatry  43 (1): 117-128   

Belkin M. (2017) “Carrying the Burden of Loss Across the Ocean: Transmission of Trauma in Migrant Families”  Psychoanalysis today, Issue 3, Migration. http://www.psychoanalysis.today/en-GB/PT-Articles/Belkin162054/Carrying-the-Burden-of-Loss-Across-the-Ocean-Trans.aspx 

Benveniste, D. (unpublished). Crisis Intervention and Stories of the Flood with versions in English, Spanish and Chinese
 
Benyakar, M. 2016. Lo disruptivo y lo traumático: abordajes posibles frente a situaciones de crisis individuales y colectivas. San Luis: Nueva Editorial Universitaria

Blass, H. (2021). “Prefazione. L'ascolto psicoanalitico in emergenza". In: Nicoló, A. (Ed.) L ´ascolto psicoanalitico in emergenza. Milano: Franco Angeli, 9-15 ISBN: 978-88-351-1898-5. Read abstract 

Blass, H. (2021).  “A New Civilization and Its Discontents in Times of COVID‐19?”  International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 2021-06,  DOI: 10.1002/aps.1698. Read abstract 

Bohleber, W. 2010.  Destructiveness, Intersubjectivity and Trauma: The Identity Crisis of Modern Psychoanalysis” . London. Karnac Books.
 
Borg, M.  2004.  “Venturing beyond the consulting room: psychoanalysis in community crisis intervention.”  Contemporary Psychoanalysis  40 (2): 147-174 

Boulanger, G.  2005.  “From voyeur to witness: recapturing symbolic function after massive psychic trauma.” Psychoanalytic Psychology, 22 (1) :21-31  Read review 
  
Bragin, M.  2019.  “Pour a libation for us: restoring the sense of a moral universe to children affected by violence.”  Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 18:201-211  Read review 

Bragin, M., Libanora, R. & Streel, E.  2019. “Monitoring and Evaluation. In Interna-tional Organization for Migration.”  Field Manual for Community Based Psychosocial Support in Emergencies and Displacement Geneva: IOM
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Bragin, M. (2021). Clinical social work with survivors of disaster and terrorism: A social ecological approach. In J. Brandell, (Ed.), Theory and practice in clinical social work (3rd ed. pp. 303- 333). San Diego: Cognella

Bragin, M. 2021. “Accompaniment as Psychoanalysis in the Community.”   Psychoanalytic Dialogues 31:517-518.  

Cardenal, M. 2020.  La niña que era acompañada por los fantasmas y las mariposas. Controversias em Psicoanálisis de Niños y Adolescentes, 27, 114-129, https://www.controversiasonline.org.ar/wp-content/uploads/27-CARDENAL.pdf

Cardenal, M. 2021. Special Time, Working with Street Children, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 31:4, 520  Read review 
 
Cerfolio, N.E. 2009.  “Multimodal psychoanalytically informed aid work with children traumatized by the Chechen War”.   Journal of the Academy of Psychoanalysis 37:587-603

Cohen, P. 2011. “The Evolution of the Project: Helping the Mothers, Infants and Young Children of September 11, 2001.”  Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy 10:187-201 Read review 

Correia e Silva, F.E. 2016. “Some contributions to understanding violence in (and of) the Cape Verdean community in Portugal”  Psychoanalysis.today, Issue 2: Violence.

Costa, M.P. & Katz, L. 2019. Episode 11: Community Psychoanalysis in the outskirts of Lima (psicoanálisis comunitario en las afueras de Lima). In IPA off the couch. https://ipaoffthecouch.org/2019/07/20/episode-11-community-psychoanalysis-in-the-outskirts-of-lima-psicoanalisis-comunitario-en-las-afueras-de-lima/
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Coulon, N. (2021). La crise. Stratégies d’intervention thérapeutique en psychiatrie. Editions Antipodes: Lausanne. Read abstract 

De Coster, N.  (2017) “The Other language: A few psychoanalytic thoughts about migration, the loss of culture and language” Psychoanalysis Today, Issue 3, Migration. 

De Micco, V. (2017) “Migrare. Sopravvivere al disumano” in  Rivista italiana di Psicoanalisi, 4/2017

Efraime Jr, B. and Errante, A. (2012). “Rebuilding Hope on Josina Machel Island: Towards a Culturally Mediated Model of Psychotherapeutic Intervention”. In International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies Special Issue: Children affected by armed conflict: Views from the Global South Part II ;Volume 9, Issue 3, pages 187–211. Read abstract

Efraime Jr, B. (2004). “The psycho-social rehabilitation of former child soldiers in Mozambique: Successes in and challenges to healing”.  The Ohio State University, Center of African Studies, Proceedings of the conference  on Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Africa, April 16-17. Read abstract

Efraime Jr, B. and Errante, A. (2010). “Reconstruindo a esperança na Ilha Josina machel: em direccao a um modelo de intervencao psicoterapêutica culturalmente mediato”. In: TRIEB, Sociedade Brasileira de Psicanalise do Rio de Janeiro, Volume IX, nr 1 e 2, 2010, Editora Imprinta Express, Rio de Janeiro. Read abstract

Efraime Jr, B. (2004). “Armed conflict – The sexual abuse of children in Mozambique”. In: The sexual abuse of young children: Research and policy issues. Richter, L; Dawes, A. & Higson-Smith, C (Eds). Human Sciences Research Council Press: Cape Town. Read abstract 

Efraime Jr, B. (1994).“ Kindersoldaten in Mosambik - Möglichkeiten der Traumatherapie und Rehabilitation”. In: Kinder als Opfer von Krieg und Verfolgung. Cultur Cooperation e.V.: Hamburg. 

Efraime Jr, B. (1998). “Wie die Geister der Ahnen Schmerzen lindern. Über den Einsatz traditioneller Riten zur Behandlung kriegstraumatisierter Kinder in Mosambik”. In: Frankfurter Rundschau,  Frankfurt a. M., Germany.,24.12.1998. [Translation: Efraime Jr., B. (1998). How the spirits of the ancestors alleviate pain: On the use of traditional rites in the treatment of war-traumatized children in Mozambique. Frankfurter Rundschau, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 24 December 1998].

Ferrero, L. (2020). La experiencia de migrar: reflexiones psicoanalíticas. Ediciones Biebel: Buenos Aires. Read abstract

Franco, G. 2015. “El dolor de los márgenes (psicoanálisis y realidad traumática).”   Calibán 13(2): 47-59

Gabriel, Peter and Levine, Howard. “Waking Up Someone Who Is Sleep Walking.” Daniel Ellsberg, Anti-Thought and the Nuclear Threat 

Garland, C. 2019. Understanding Trauma: A Psychoanalytic Approach, Routledge, London & New York  

Garland, C. 2019.  “Thinking About Trauma.” In Understanding Trauma: A Psychoanalytic Approach, edited by Caroline Garland , 9-31.  London and New York: Routledge  Read review 
Garland, C. 2019. “Issues in Treatment: A Case of Rape.” In Understanding Trauma: A Psychoanalytic Approach, edited by Caroline Garland 108-122,  London  and New York: Routledge Read review 
Goren, E. 2007.  “Society’s Use of the Hero following a National Trauma.”  Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association,  67(1):37-52  Read review 

Grande, L. 1984. “International Journal of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, VIII. 1980”. By Robert A Glick and Arthur T. Meyerson. Psychoanalytic Quarterly 53;492

Haq, S. 2021. In Search Of Return: Mourning the disappearances in Kashmir. Rowman & Littlefield publishing Co., Inc: Connecticut, Maryland & Pennsylvania 

Jovic, V.  2018. “Working with traumatized refugees on the Balkan route.” International journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 15:187-201  Read review 

Katz, C.L., & Nathaniel, R.  2002. “Disasters, Psychiatry, and Psychodynamics.”  Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis,  30:519-529  Read review 

Leuzinger-Bohleber, M. (2015)  Finding the Body in the Mind: Embodied Memories, Trauma, and Depression, Routledge: London & New York 

Kaës, R. (2007) Linking, Alliances, and Shared Space, Groups and the Psychoanalyst. Routledge: London & New York

Kristeva, J. (1991).“Strangers to Ourselves”. Columbia University Press: New York

Kudler, H.  “What is psychological trauma?” National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Clinical Newsletter, 2(1):8, 1991. Read abstract 

Kudler, H. “The limiting effects of paradigms on the concept of psychological trauma". In The International Handbook of Human Response to Trauma, A.Y. Shalev, R. Yehuda, A.C. McFarlane, Editors. Plenum, New York, 2000. Read abstract 

Kudler, H. “The need for psychodynamic principles in outreach to new combat veterans and their families”. Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry, 35(1): 39-50, 2007. Read abstract 

Kudler, H., Straits-Troster, K. “Identifying and treating post deployment mental health problems among new combat veterans”. North Carolina Medical Journal, 69(1):38-41, 2008. Read abstract

Kudler, H.S., Blank, A.S., Krupnick, J.L., Herman, J.L., Horowitz, M.J. “The psychodynamic treatment of PTSD". In Effective Treatments For PTSD: Practice Guidelines from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, E. Foa, T.M. Keane, and M.J. Friedman, Editors. Guilford Publications, Inc., New York, 2008. Read abstract

Kudler, H. “A psychodynamic conceptualization of retraumatization". In M.P. Duckworth & V.M., Follette (Eds.), Retraumatization: Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention (pp.33-59). New York, NY: Routledge, 2012. Read abstract

Kudler, H. “The Psychoanalytic Concept and Treatment of Psychological Trauma: An Evolving Perspective”.  In S. N. Gold, J. M. Cook, C.J. Dalenberg (Eds.), APA Handbook of Trauma Psychology: Volume 2 (pp. 295-326), Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Press, 2017. Read abstract 

Kudler, H. “Repeating the Past in Pathology and Theory: Practical Suggestions for the Field of Traumatic Stress”. In E. J. Schreiber (Ed.), Healing Trauma: The Power of Listening (pp. 39-54), New York: International Psychoanalytic Books, 2018. Read abstract 
 
Kudler, H.S., Carr, R.B. “Psychodynamic psychiatry”.  In B.A. Moore & W.E. Penk (Eds.), Treating PTSD in Military Personnel: A Clinical Handbook (pp. 117-135), New York: The Guilford Press, 2019. Read abstract
 
Kudler, H. “Clinical practice guidelines for posttraumatic stress disorder: Are they still clinical?” Psychotherapy, 56(3):383-390. doi:10.1037/pst0000236, 2019. Read abstract
 
Kudler, H.“ ‘The soldiers come home’: Lessons learned (and not learned) through American experience in World War I”. Chapter 14 in L. van Bergen & E. Vermetten (Eds), The First World War and Health: Rethinking Resilience (pp.273-299), Leiden, The Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2020. Read abstract

Lemma, A. & Levy, S. (Eds). 2004. The Perversion of Loss: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Trauma. Routledge: London & New York 

Leuzinger-Bohleber, M., Rickmeyer, C., Tahiri, M., Hettich, N. & Fischmann, T.  2016. “What can psychoanalysis contribute to the current refugee crisis? Preliminary reports from STEP-BY-STEP: A psychoanalytic pilot project for supporting refugees in a ‘First Reception Camp’ and crisis interventions with traumatized refugees”.  International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 97(4):1077-1093

Leuzinger-Bohleber, M; Blass, H. (2021). “Editorial introduction: Psychoanalytical perspectives on the COVID‐19 pandemic”. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 2021-06,  DOI: 10.1002/aps.1707.

Miller, I.S. 2008.  “Preparation for psychodynamic consultation following community trauma: learning from the “Firehouse Project.” International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies 5 (1):68-79 Read review 
              
Mendoza, J. 2019. “Psicólogos contigo y el trabajo con la comunidad.”  Revista Psicoanálisis, 24. Sociedad Peruana de Psicoanálisis: Lima

Osman Ahmed, F. 2008. “Working within a refugee community.” In Work Discussion: Learning From Reflective Practice in Work with Children and Families, 177- 190. London and New York: Routledge Read review 

Ostoja, X. 2019. “Saliendo de nuestros consultorios: la experiencia de trabajo en barba blanca”.  Revista Psicoanálisis, 23. Sociedad Peruana de Psicoanálisis: Lima

Palacios, E. 2021. Psicoanálisis en emergencias: Pensando la pandemia.  Psimática clínica: Madrid

Pichon-Riviere, E. 1968. Clase dada en la  Escuela de Psicología Social en 1968, https://www.psicologiasocial.com.ar/escuela/situaciones-catastroficas/ Read review

Pupavac, V.  2001 “Therapeutic governance: psycho-social intervention and trauma risk management”,  Disasters, 25(4):358-372 Read review

Rosenbaum, B. & Varvin, S. 2022. Transformationen in mentalen Zuständen der Traumatisierung: Psychoanalytisch-semiotische Reflexionen. Psyche, 76, 826-855.

Rustin, M. & Bradley, J.(ed) 2008. Work Discussion: learning from reflective practice in work with children and families. London and New York : Routledge Read review

Rustin, M. (2013). “Finding out where and who one is: the special complexity of migration for adolescents”  – In: Finding A Way To The Child (2022). Routledge: London and New York. Read review
 
Santander, P. 2011. “Reflexiones Psicoanalíticas en torno al Terremoto.”  Revista GPU, 7( 2) 221-226.  Read review

Scharff, J. S. and Scharff, D. S. (1996). Object Relations Therapy of Physical and Sexual Trauma. Northvale NJ: Jason Aronson. Read abstract 

Schinaia, C., (2019). “Respect for the Environment. Psychoanalytic Reflections on the Ecological Crisis”, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 100, 2, pp. 272-286. Read abstract 

Schinaia, C., (2021). “Quali sono le resistenze psichiche che ci impediscono di prendere coscienza dell’emergenza climatica”, Gazzetta Ambiente, XXVII, 2, pp. 27-36. Read abstract

Schinaia, C., (2021). “Considerazioni psicoanalitiche sulla crisi ecologica”, Gazzetta Ambiente, XXVII, 2, pp. 37-50. schinaia-la-psicoanalisi-e-crisi..pdf
 
Schinaia, C., (2021). “La psicoanàlisi davant de la crisi ecològica”, Revista Catalana de Psicoanàlisi, XXXVIII, 2. Read abstract

Schinaia, C., (2021). “Mecanismos de defensa individuales y grupales de cara a la emergencia ambiental”. Revista de Psicoanálisis de la Asociación Psicoanalítica de Madrid. Negaciones y Negacionismos, 36, 96, pp. 685-713. Read abstract
  
Schinaia, C., (2020). “La crisi ecologica e la sofferenza psichica. Note su psicoanalisi e ecologia”. In G. Mantione e E. Romanelli (a cura di), Il corpo della terra. La relazione negata. Da una visione egologica a una visione ecologica, (pp. 301-328). Castelvecchi, Roma. Schinaia_crisi_ecologica.pdf

Schinaia, C., (2020). “Inconsciente y emergencia ambiental. Reflexiones para una agenda común entre psicoanálisis y ecología”. Biebel, Buenos Aires. Read abstract

Schinaia, C., (2020). “L’Inconscio e l’ambiente. Psicoanalisi e ecologia”. Alpes, Roma. Read abstract

Schinaia, C., (2021). “Flexibilité et rigueur en psychanalyse à l’époque du coronavirus”, Le Coq Héron, 247, 4, pp.  41. Read abstract

Schinaia, C., (2022). “Els espais domèstics i les vivències dels habitants després de la pandèmia”, Revista Catalana de Psicoanàlisi, XXXIX, 1, pp. 77-100. Read abstract

Searles, H. F. 1972. “Unconscious processes in relation to the environmental crisis”, Psychoanalytic Review, 59 (3): 361–74.

Sklar, Jonathan 2019. "Dark Times-Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Politics, History and Mourning" Phoenix. This book examines how collective trauma, defense mechanisms, and unconscious processes influence political behavior and history. It offers a deep, detailed analysis that goes against the grain of quick-fix political commentary, aiming to provide a more conscious and thoughtful understanding of difficult issues. 

Sklar, Jonathan 2024. "The Soft Power of Culture -Art, Transitional Space, Death and Mourning" Paper, Karnac. 

Straker, G.  1994.  “The interface between refugee groups and assistance groups: an exploration of dynamics and the design of a treatment program.” Free Association: 4(3):320-337 Read review 

Stubley, J. & Young, L. (Eds). 2022. Complex Trauma: The Tavistock Model. Routledge: London & New York

Taxman, J. 2004.  “Concurrent intervention during massive community trauma: an analyst’s experience at ground zero.”  In Analysts in the Trenches: Streets, Schools and War Zones, by B. Sklarew, S.W. Twemlow and S.M. Wildenson,  57-75.  Hillsdale, N.J. The Analytic Press

Taylor, D. 2019. “The Psychodynamic Assessment of Post-traumatic States.”  In Understanding Trauma: A Psychoanalytic Approach, edited by Garland, C. 47-62.  London and New York: Routledge   Read review

Tollemache, R., Rust, M.J. & Totton, N. (eds). 2013.  Vital Signs: Psychological Responses to Ecological Crisis. Karnac Books: London

Vahali, H.O. 2020. Lives in Exile: Exploring the Inner World of Tibetan Refugees. (2nd edition).  Routledge: London & New York

Varvin, S. 2017. Our Relations to Refugees: Between Compassion and Dehumanization. The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 77, 1-19.

Varvin, S. 2019. Psychoanalysis and the situation of refugees: a human rights perspective. In Psychoanalysis, Law, and Society. Montagna, P. & Harris, A. (eds.). London and New York: Routledge.

Varvin, S. 2021. Psychoanalysis in Social and Cultural Settings: Upheavals and Resilience. Routledge: London & New York

Varvin, S. & Laegreid, E. 2020. Traumatized women—organized violence. Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China, 3(1), 92-110

Varvin, S., Vladisavljević, I., Jovic, V. & Sagbakken, M. 2022. “I have no capacities that can help me“. Young asylum seekers in Norway and Serbia. Flight as disturbance of developmental processes. Frontiers in Psychology, 12: 786210

Volkan, V.  2017  “Psychoanalytic Thoughts on the European Refugee Crisis and the Other.”  Psychoanalytic Review. 104(6): 661-685 Read review

Volkan, V. 2014. “Psychoanalysis, International Relations and Diplomacy” Karnac Books: London 

Wald, A.  “SALIDA DE LA PANDEMIA. TRAUMA ACTUAL. ADOLESCENCIA, Revista Psicanálise, de la SBPdePA,  v. 29 n. 2 (2022)p. 167-184. Read abstract 

Wald, A. “Notas sobre vulnerabilidade e desampara na infância” . En En Revista Brasileira de Psicanálise. Órgão  Oficial da federação. Brasileira de Psicanálise Volume 56,n 4.2022. Read abstract 
 
Wald, A. “Notas sobre vulnerabilidad y desamparo en la infancia”. En RUP 127. Revista Uruguaya de Psicoanálisis. p 90-10. Read abstract 
 
Wallace-Wells, D. 2019. The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future. Penguin: London

Weintrobe, S., (ed.). 2012. Engaging with Climate Change: Psychoanalytic and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Routledge: London & New York.

Weintrobe, S. 2021. Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: Neoliberal Exceptionalism and the Culture of Uncare, Bloomsbury Academic: London & New York 

Witkon, Y. 2012.  “A Crisis Mental Health Intervention Service: An Innovative Model for Working Intensively With Young People on the Edge of Care.”  Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 38:154-169




REVIEWS


Boulanger, G. 2005. “From voyeur to witness: recapturing symbolic function after massive psychic trauma.” Psychoanalytic Psychology 22 (1):21-31 
In this article Boulanger stresses the difficult internal process that the analyst must undertake within him- or herself so as to move from the position of a passive voyeur to an active witness.  This psychic work  mirrors the process through which the patient must also pass.  Survivors of massive psychic trauma experience a nar-rowing of perception and a rigidification of mental processes.  As a result, the symbolic function is compromised, damaging  the capacity to dream and to think effectively.  Survivors may feel they “have lost their minds.”   In such states, para-noid-schizoid functioning predominates and meaning is lost.  Working with such patients the mental health worker, like the patient, may feel a loss in his or her capacity to think and reflect. As a result, the mental health worker may find him or herself moving into a passive voyeuristic position vis a vis the patient with accom-panying feelings of dissociation.  The task of the mental health worker, according to Boulanger, is to abandon the passive position of the voyeur so as to become an active witness to the patient’s trauma.  
Reviewed by Eva Yakubov, MD (Israel)
 

Bragin, M. 2019.“Pour a Libation for Us: Restoring the Sense of a Moral Uni-verse to  Children Affected by Violence.”  Journal of Infant, Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy 18:201-211
This article would be useful for psychoanalysts working with organizations to de-velop treatment programs for children and adolescents traumatized by vio-lence.  It is especially useful for thinking about treatment for children and adoles-cents who have experienced violence, not only as victims, but as perpetrators as well.  Drawing on the work of Melanie Klein, Jessica Benjamin and theorists in both Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, Bragin offers a model of intervention that goes beyond an individual based trauma model to one that situates violence and its traumatic aftereffects within broader structures of social organization and in-terpersonal relationships.  She describes the way in which children who have participated in the violence, are often unable to reintegrate into their communities and families, feeling that the atrocities they have committed forever exile them from the human community and its moral universe. Using an example of her work with former child soldiers in Sierra Leone, she describes how a  treatment team, in collaboration with a community, designed an intervention in which children, com-munity members and staff participated in acts of reparation with the aim of  re-storing a moral universe that had been torn apart by violence. Through the per-formance of ritual, the atrocities of war were rendered a collective trauma that must be borne by all.
Reviewed by Marianna Adler, Ph.D. (U.S.A)

Cardenal, M. 2021. Special Time, Working with Street Children, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 31:4, 520  
This  is an excellent and powerful example of how to bring psychoanalytic thinking and experience to the work with children in the community.  
This program “Special Time: working with street children” has its origins in Gianna Williams’s program that started in 1999. This in turn derives from the Tavistock model of education which has a seminar called work discussion in its curricula.

The basis of these programs lies in  the importance of Infant Observation with the Bick method in order to increase the observational capacity of analysts and psy-chotherapists. The work with street children presented by Monica Cardenal shows that this psychoanalytically based method can and should be used in other fields like Education and help professionals to contain very primitive anxieties that come from the field and also to think about them.
These programs could not be more timely, at a time like the one we are going through with the pandemic and a war generating more migrations and refugees, where, as usual, children are the most vulnerable population and who we must help without hesitation.
Reviewed by Virginia Ungar, M.D. (Argentina)

Cohen, P. 2011 “The Evolution of the Project: Helping the Mothers, Infants and Young Children of September 11, 2001.”  Journal of Infant, Child and Adoles-cent Psychotherapy 10:187-201
In this interesting paper, we learn about a group of psychoanalytically oriented cli-nicians who organized themselves during the aftermath of 9/11 to provide psychoanalytically oriented support to pregnant mothers who had lost their partners dur-ing the attacks. The group of clinicians had to become flexible and creative to reach the population in their communities and gain their trust. The way they deliv-ered the project was influenced by the experience they were gaining whilst trying to deliver the help. The author provides an account of how mother-children’s groups, formed on the basis of psychoanalytic principles, provided vital support in the aftermath of the crisis. This project, initially planned to last 2 years, was still ongoing in 2011, 10 years after its start. This article functions as an overview of a set of papers in a special edition of the Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, dedicated to this com-munity-based project. It shows the value of psychoanalytically informed interven-tions in communities that face traumatic after-effects of catastrophes. 

Reading related to this project:
Link to this special edition of the Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psy-chotherapy focused on this project: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hicp20/10/2-3?nav=tocList
Link to the book published about this project: https://www.routledge.com/Mothers-Infants-and-Young-Children-of-September-11-2001-A-Primary-Prevention/Beebe-Cohen-Sossin-Markese/p/book/9780415507790
Reviewed by Carlos Vasquez,  (Peru)

Costa, M.P. & Katz, L. 2019. Episode 11: Community Psychoanalysis in the out-skirts of Lima (psicoanálisis comunitario en las afueras de Lima). In IPA off the couch. https://ipaoffthecouch.org/2019/07/20/episode-11-community-psychoanalysis-in-the-outskirts-of-lima-psicoanalisis-comunitario-en-las-afueras-de-lima/
This podcast tells the story of Psicólogos Contigo (PC), a collective created in 2017 by members of the Peruvian Psychoanalytical Society (SPP) in response to the se-vere flooding and landslides that destroyed homes, towns and cities and resulted in numerous deaths.  Psicólogos Contigo provided help to those affected, offering a traumatized population a way to frame and make sense of the magnitude of the crisis they had just suffered.  María Pía Costa, former President of SPP describes three  intervention strategies developed by (PC).  At one level members of (PC) worked with both the groups and individuals in the form of psychoanalytic listen-ing, using psychoanalytic tools and theories to understand the psychic and group dynamics happening in the wake of the catastrophe.  (see also Benyakar’s work quoted at the end of the podcast’s webpage). At another level children and ado-lescents were provided with a notebook and encouraged to create representa-tions, including a narrative of the events.  At still another level, members of (PC) worked to prevent violence among the members of the community.  The latter in-tervention was not directly related to the problems associated with the catastro-phe but developed as a by-product of the work of (PC) following the disaster.  This Podcast and associated readings are highly recommended for those who are work-ing to develop mental health based crisis intervention strategies in the wake of massive trauma. 
Reviewed by Carlos Vasquez,  (Peru)

Garland, C. 2019. “Issues in Treatment: A Case of Rape.” In Understanding Trauma: A Psychoanalytic Approach, edited by Caroline Garland 108-122.  Oxon and New York: Routledge
Garland discusses the psychological sequelae of severe rape, focusing on the way the traumatic event disrupts the relationship with the good containing internal ob-ject and creates difficulties in the area of symbolisation. The capacity to symbolize and use aspects of the external world to represent internal objects depends on the proper functioning of the internal container. Trauma destroys that container. Gar-land offers the example of a 17-year-old girl who lost the capacity for symbolization following a rape, such that words like ‘rape’ or ‘knife’ were equated to the event itself, leading to flashbacks and breakdowns.  Garland describes how psychoana-lytic treatment can function to reestablish the good containing object. In the pro-cess, she argues that psychoanalysis is not only a clinical treatment, but a valuable research tool for investigating severe traumatic states. 
Reviewed by Banu Ismail, Child and Adult Psychoanalyst, (India)

Garland, C. 2019. “Thinking About Trauma.” In Understanding Trauma: A Psychoanalytic Approach, edited by Caroline Garland , 9-31.  London and New York: Routledge   
In this highly interesting paper Garland discusses her work in a Trauma Unit. She describes how external traumatic events are reflected in the inner phantasy world of the patient. The author gives us a detailed view of the state of the internal ob-ject relationships in such traumatized patients, and particularly a state where the good object is no longer present as a protective loving object.  

I was interested in her description of patients’ inability to move on after these terrible events and the kinds of defensive organizations developed to cope. She ar-gues that the intensity with which we live current tragic events is influenced by memories of past experiences. Drawing on the work of Freud and Klein, she argues that in the face of tragedy the good containing object may be hated for its failure to provide protection, resulting in persecutory states of mind.

But Garland also shows depressive trends in patients, which persist. She discusses the example of the mother who lost her child and reacted by forming a delusional phantasy of his being alive. This reminds us of one of Freud’s impressive insights in recognizing the reparative element in Schreber’s delusional system.  Having de-stroyed his world through omnipotent attacks on his good objects, Freud describes how Schreber “builds it again, not more splendid, it is true, but at least so that once more he can live with it. The delusional formation, which we take to be the pathological product, is in reality an attempt at recovery, a process of reconstruction.”(1911).

Garland describes various attempts to bind mental states as protection against catastrophic mental deterioration, and the fragmentation of the ego. Makes me wonder whether in the absence of a good containing object, the structure she was thinking of was not unlike a psychic retreat based on a defensive organization against overwhelming depressive and paranoid states.
Reviewed by Banu Ismail, Child and Adult Psychoanalyst,  (India)

Goren, E. 2007. “Society’s Use of the Hero following a National Trauma.”  Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 67(1):37-52
In this thought provoking paper Elizabeth Goren, PhD, reflects on 9/11 and its traumatic effect on the American psyche.  In an effort to comprehend the enormity of the tragedy and cope with feelings of helplessness, powerlessness and loss, so-ciety initially lionized and idealized the firefighters of Ground Zero, using them as symbolic containers for collective grief and horror, only to eventually turn away from them in an effort to dissociate from those same unbearable feelings.  In tell-ing this story, Goren reflects on the nature of society’s need for heroes in times of crisis and the eventual need to dissociate from these same heroes as well as from other victims of the attack, now experienced as “contaminated” by death, unwel-come reminders to a society that was ready to return to “normal life.” In the pro-cess she reflects on the consequences of a culture’s inability to bear the unbeara-ble and mourn its losses, both interpersonal and intrapsychic.  She argues that our turn towards war in the aftermath of 9/11 allowed us to identify once again with a belief in our sense of power and invincibility, creating a new hero in the American soldier in our effort to heal our wounded narcissism. With our eventual defeat and retreat from the disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan we once again are faced with the problem of whether this time we can face and mourn our losses or whether once again we will find new enemies and new heroes to protect us from our profound human vulnerability.  
Reviewed by Marianna Adler, PhD (U.S.A)

Jovic, V. 2018. “Working with traumatized  refugees on the Balkan route.” International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies 14:187-201 
This paper is an account of Jovic’s experience as part of an NGO providing psycho-logical and social aid to a refugee population, a population in permanent crisis and emergency that was, and frequently  still is, subject to abuse and violence at mul-tiple national borders.  The author describes the problems that arise when trying to provide assistance to this traumatized population.   Following the closure of the Balkan Route in 2016, these refugees developed a new migratory behavior, a new way of “being” in the streets, the squares, the train and bus stations as they at-tempted to adapt to the reality of a more permanent presence in Serbia.  These refugees, whose social behaviors were unfamiliar to the established population of the receiving country, became the target of multiple projections stemming from varying anxieties  originating in the host population.  The author proposes forms of intervention and assistance relevant to this population, adding to the pre-existing psychoanalytic literature on trauma and its symptomatology. This is a very relevant paper and is highly recommended for anyone trying to understand or inter-vene in the  current refugee crisis.  
Reviewed by Mónica Cardenal, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology (Argentina)  

Katz, C.L., & Nathaniel, R. 2002. “Disasters, Psychiatry, and Psychodynamics.” Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis  30 (4):519-529
This article, based on the work of the Disaster Psychiatric Outreach (DPO), a New York City based charitable organization, examines the experience of trauma from the perspectives of ego psychology, defenses, personal meaning and grief work.  It argues that immediate attention to the traumatized subject can reduce symptoms and prevent the subsequent development of mental disorders.  The authors em-phasize the importance of working with traumatized subjects to develop a person-ally meaningful narrative to explain the appearance of particular symptoms, a nar-rative that aids the ego in its attempts to reorganize itself following traumatic events.  The article includes a discussion of the ways in which countertransference issues among the “helpers” can re-traumatize those they mean to help, leading to what the authors refer to as a “second disaster.”  The importance of identifying problems in the counter-transference in advance and helping the helpers is em-phasized. 
Reviewed by Eva Yakubov, MD (Israel)  

Miller, I.S. (2008). Preparation for Psychodynamic Consultation following Com-munity Trauma: Learning from the “Firehouse project”. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies 5 (1):68-79.
“….how do we as clinicians, ensure for ourselves the greatest capability we can muster, for relatively clear thinking under unbearable circumstances?” (p75).  This 2008 article, based on Miller’s experience as a clinician consultant for the NY fire department following the events of 9/11, is his attempt to answer that ques-tion.  In the process Miller describes what it is like for a clinician to enter into a traumatized community, in this instance, the community of New York firefighters, in an effort to discover how to be of use.  It is an effort that, using Miller’s words once again, consists of “finding one’s professional and personal way in chaos” (76). Miller discusses the challenge of adapting clinical skills to an unfamiliar context and setting, as well as the challenges of gaining the trust of a community, often skeptical of the outsider, particularly of an outsider who wants to talk about “feelings.”  He describes the multiple pressures the clinician faces, the difficulty of managing an ambiguous role identity a well as the secondary trauma suffered by those clinician who allow themselves to be used as containers for the horror and grief suffered by others, In the process Miller details the pressures on the clinician in such situations that make it difficult to sustain an analytic mind and go on think-ing in the context of the unbearable.  Miller concludes the article with some specif-ic suggestions for clinicians who would undertake this kind of work.  This article is useful for clinicians considering working with traumatized communities or clinicians trying to make sense of their experience of such work in the past. 
Reviewed by Marianna Adler, PhD (U.S.A.)

Osman Ahmed, F. 2008. “Working within a refugee community.” In Work Discussion: Learning From Reflective Practice in Work with Children and Families, 177- 190. London and New York: Routledge
Fadumo Osman Ahmed describes her experience working with vulnerable families within a refugee community in the UK. Her chapter is particularly relevant for clini-cians working in the context of crisis and emergency.  It highlights the limitations of offering material aid to a vulnerable population while ignoring their mental health needs.  In addition, it describes the difficulties that arise in the context of inadequate communication between the various agencies, staff and institutions involved in serving this population, highlighting the need to secure a space to think in the face of the pressures to act or “discharge” the problem by passing it on to the next agency or staff member.  
Reviewed by Carlos Tamm, MD, Ph.D (UK)

Pichon-Riviere, E. (1968). Clase dada en la  Escuela de Psicología Social en 1968. 
https://www.psicologiasocial.com.ar/escuela/situaciones-catastroficas/
This lecture, given in 1968, describes the author’s experience working in communities in the Paraná river region devastated by flooding. Volatile and counterproduc-tive group dynamics arising in the context of  catastrophes  are described. The au-thor compares the irrational, sometimes bordering on life threatening reactions, that can emerge in some subgroups of affected communities, with confusional states of mind (see Herbert Rosenfeld). This article is helpful for understanding group dynamics arising out of states of panic in response to catastrophe.
Reviewed by Carlos Vasquez, Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Clinical Psychologist, (Peru)
 

Pupavac, V. 2001. Therapeutic governance: psycho-social intervention and trauma risk management.  Disasters. 25(4):358-372
This writer takes a critical look at the way in which international aid agencies dedicated to crisis intervention have adopted a psycho-social, trauma based model focused on psychological suffering.  The author argues that such models of psycho-social intervention are rooted in the Anglo-American therapeutic ethos that has come to dominate western cultures since the Second World War. These models effectively function as a form of what she calls “therapeutic governance,” a way in which strategies of power and control are exercised through therapeutic strate-gies under the guise of “helping.”  She warns that agency based psycho-social interventions based around trauma counseling, life skills or self-esteem building may actually harm communities by undermining local coping strategies embedded in traditional forms of social organization.  While psychoanalysts hoping to provide help in the wake of immediate catastrophe may not find this article immediately useful, it nonetheless offers a critical perspective on our therapeutic culture and the ubiquity of the use of the concept of “trauma” to explain human suffering. In the process she calls our attention to the ways in which power infuses even our best intentions to help when we are dealing with populations in positions of ine-quality vis a vis the major centers of world power.  Most importantly, it reminds all of those who work in the field of crisis intervention to begin with a question, “What do you need from us?” rather than declaring, “this is what we are here to give you.”  
Reviewed by Marianna Adler, Ph.D. (U.S.A.)
 

Rustin, M. & Bradley, J. (ed.) (2008). Work Discussion: learning from reflective practice in work with children and families. London and New York: Routledge
This edited volume provides a detailed discussion of the theory and practice of the Work Discussion model as developed at the Tavistock Clinic.  Embedded in the psychoanalytic attitude of “learning from experience” as conceptualized by Bion, Work Discussion is a method that aims to establish a containing environment that will provide members of a group a space to think, even when dealing with extremely challenging situations. The book comprises 4 sections: papers that provide a general overview of the model, case studies, a section on the applications of the method abroad and a discussion by Michael Rustin of the implications of this model for policy making and research. 
Reviewed by Carlos Tamm, M.D., Ph.D. (UK)


Rustin, M. (2013) ‘Finding out where and who one is: the special complexity of migration for adolescents – In: Finding A Way To The Child (2022). Routledge: London and New York.
In this paper from her book ‘Finding A Way To The child’, Margaret Rustin explores what happens when the pressures of psycho-social transition of adolescence collide with the confusion, loss, disorientation and often traumatic elements characteristic of enforced migration. She describes this with the help of her work with two adolescent boys who have been thrown out of their known world by external circumstances. Their internal responses to this fact gives a picture of how defensive systems take shape and how psychoanalytic psychotherapy may be able to free such adolescents from the life destroying aspects of their survival strategies. 
Reviewed by Banu Ismail, Child and Adult Psychoanalyst, (India) 
Santander, P. 2011 “Reflexiones Psicoanalíticas en torno al Terremoto.” Revista GPU, 7 (2): 221-226
In this paper, Dr. Santander reflects on what he calls  the “secondary earthquake,” referring to the social violence and upheaval that followed the actual earthquakes and tsunamis that took place in Chile in February 2010.  Many died and many oth-ers  were significantly affected. In addition, access to goods and services was extremely limited thereby increasing the suffering of the population. The looting of supermarkets and other stores along with the destruction of property added to the traumatic effect of this terrible natural disaster on the local population. 
Dr. Santander interprets these events as an expression of paranoid-schizoid states of mind.  He suggests that these social behaviors can be understood as retaliatory actions in the context of a phantasy of a damaged container-earth. In this phanta-sy, what is sacked is the inside of the mother, experienced as a punishing, cheap object bent on accumulating resources for itself. The phantasy includes the fear that such a deteriorated object will not be able to keep generating good things, thus provoking  feelings of greed and envy among the local population who feel they must compete to get what little they can of what is left.   
In the context of this disaster, Santander discusses the phenomena of “social contagion,” linking it to Bion’s theory of basic assumption groups. He suggests that mindless large group reactions such as occurred in Chile,  are distractions from the work of mourning and the rebuilding that can occur only with “learning from experience,” Santander further argues that the events that unfolded following the earthquake and Tsunami can be understood in part as the reaction of population embedded in a social organization founded on a phantasy that “one must save oneself,” an individualistic attitude that undermines a more collectivist stance wherein the commitment is to the wellbeing of the group.  
Reviewed by Ricardo Readi, Clinical Psychologist (Chile)

Straker, G. 1994. “The interface between refugee groups and assistance groups: an exploration of dynamics and the design of a treatment program”, Free Association, 4 (31, Part 3): 320-337 
This article discusses the author’s experience working in refugee centers in South Africa designed to shelter black youth fleeing violence in their townships.  Noting that a similar pattern of problematic interactions between refugees and staff has recurred in multiple refugee centers, she argues that the behavior of young mili-tants can’t be sufficiently understood by referencing only our clinical understand-ing of trauma.  Instead, drawing on Bion’s theory of Basic Assumption groups (i.e, dependence, fight-flight and pairing) as well as data from Vietnam veteran’s groups, she demonstrates how an understanding of group behavior can help make sense of the antagonistic relationships that may develop between staff and refugees. Using Bion’s model, she describes typical stages of interaction between center staff and refugees that characterize the evolution of group behavior inside the Center, demonstrating how the understanding of basic assumption groups can assist staff in developing intervention protocols that fosters cooperation between refugee groups and staff as well as aid in the planning for smoother transitions for refugees transiting into and out of the Center.  She follows with a discussion of the specific interventions designed by staff to address potential problems arising in each one of these three phases.  Her discussion is not only an interesting case study, but a potentially useful tool to assist staff in similar settings to anticipate and plan for the difficulties that both staff and refugees face in these complex conditions.
Reviewed by Marianna Adler, Ph.D. (U.S.A.)
 

Taylor, D. 2019.“The Psychodynamic Assessment of Post-traumatic States.”  In Understanding Trauma: A Psychoanalytic Approach, edited by Caroline Garland 47-62. London and New York: Routledge  
With illustrations from two clinical case studies, Taylor describes a psychodynamic assessment interview process designed for use with subjects suffering the after-effects of trauma.  He argues that the capacity of the interviewer to engage deep-ly with the subject’s suffering is a first step in the recovery process. Such capacity requires a psychoanalytic understanding of early infantile states and their development as described by Freud, Melanie Klein and Bion.  Similar to what an infant might feel, Taylor suggests that the traumatized self feels invaded, an invasion experienced as an external attack in the form of un-metabolized and unsymbolized physical blows.  The mind must then work to process the heretofore indigestible events so as to form usable mental representations.  Taylor argues that the inter-view process itself is a critical step in this process, providing a containing function that allows painful and overwhelming events to be internalized in a meaningful and bearable manner.  When this does not occur, such unbearable states are likely to be extruded into the external world of objects in the form of projective identifications.  This chapter can be helpful for those working with traumatized subjects who want to understand the internal world of the traumatized self as opposed to focusing more narrowly on the symptomatology and classifiable mental disorders.  It highlights the importance of the initial assessment phase.
Reviewed by Banu Ismail, Child and Adult Psychoanalyst, (India) 
 
 

Volkan, V. 2017. “Psychoanalytic Thoughts on the European Refugee Crisis and the Other.”  Psychoanalytic Review, 104(6): 661-685 
English version:
Vamik Volkan is a psychoanalyst who emigrated from Cyprus to the United States as a young adult. He  devoted himself to the subject of immigration both as a pri-vate analyst and a researcher who visited refugee camps in various parts of the world, observing and interviewing children and adolescents orphaned by wars and national and racial conflicts. Immigration imposes the work of mourning.   
At the same time it imposes for both immigrants and hosts, a reconfiguration of the subjects' nuclear identity networks and a corresponding shift in group identifi-cations. Volkan argues that linking objects play a fundamental role in the work of mourning. They can create an impasse or they can aid in the process of mourning.  Linking objects also play a role in the transmission of conflict from one generation to the next.  
Volkan argues that within the contexts of immigration, defensive dynamics push for the externalization of abject characteristics onto the “other”, whether that “other” be immigrant or host. Volkan's work is an important contribution to the psychoanalytic literature, containing valuable observations, with implications for the treatment of individual and community.     
Daniel Delouya, Ph.D. (Brasil)


ABSTRACTS


Ricardo Bernardi

Bagattini, N., López-Gómez, A., Luzardo, M., Dogmanas, D., Brunet, N., & Bernardi, R. (2021) COVID-19 pandemic in Uruguay and the need for a person and social centered medicine. International Journal of Person Centered Medicine, 11(1), 7-19.

Abstract: During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Uruguayan government decided to call for an attitude of responsible freedom of the population and created an Honorary Scientific Advisory Group (GACH). The intention was to report the scientific evidence available on the health situation with transparency and technical independence and to recommended interventions. This paper aims (1) to analyze the strategy to combat the COVID-19 pandemic used in Uruguay from the perspective and principles of person-centered medicine (PCM), (2) to report and examine from a broad perspective the policy regarding health authorities, scientific evidence and population, and (3) to discuss the importance of mental health and behavioral monitoring for identifying vulnerable groups that require special attention and care.

Results: The evidence shows the impact of the pandemic on the emotional distress of the population, indicating that the population discomfort decreased significantly when the pandemic situation began to improve. In addition, differences according to socioeconomic status and age groups were observed, showing that the most disadvantaged had significantly higher levels of emotional distress than those of the middle and upper class, at all times of analysis.
Conclusions: Apparently, it is possible to extend the principles of beneficence, autonomy, and justice applied at the individual level to the level of collective health policies. This is essential to achieve the active participation of the population in their self-care and to promote greater and more transparent communication with the health and scientific fields. It is also necessary to adopt a holistic, biopsychosocial perspective, which makes it possible to identify the vulnerable sectors of society and the areas in which special attention is required.

Source: International Journal of Person Centered Medicine


Heribert Blass 

Blass, H. (2021) Prefazione. L'ascolto psicoanalitico in emergenza. In: Nicoló, A. (Ed.) L ´ascolto psicoanalitico in emergenza. Milano: Franco Angeli, 9-15 ISBN: 978-88-351-1898-5
 
Abstract: Questo libro descrive l’esperienza dell’ascolto elaborativo che centinaia di psicoanalisti hanno fatto in occasione dell’epidemia di Covid mettendo a punto un lavoro condiviso, delimitato nel tempo e specifico nello spazio, per affrontare il dolore mentale esplicito o agìto e le emozioni connesse con l’emergenza. In queste situazioni estreme può accadere che il reale della malattia e della morte, i vissuti di persecuzione, la solitudine imposta dalla lontananza sociale sovrastino la capacità di pensare del singolo. Questo volume mostra quanto il metodo psicoanalitico sia duttile e potente e la psicoanalisi, pur rimarcando la differenza con il processo che si svolge nel setting duale, si possa applicare in tutti i luoghi dove l’inconscio si manifesta. Prefazione di Heribert Blass; Introduzione di Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber.

Translation: This book describes the experience of elaborative listening carried out by hundreds of psychoanalysts during the Covid epidemic, as they developed a shared form of work—time-limited and spatially specific—aimed at addressing explicit or acted-out mental pain and the emotions connected with the emergency. In such extreme situations, the reality of illness and death, experiences of persecution, and the solitude imposed by social distancing can overwhelm an individual’s capacity to think. This volume demonstrates how flexible and powerful the psychoanalytic method is and how psychoanalysis, while emphasizing its difference from the process that takes place in the dual setting, can be applied in all contexts in which the unconscious manifests itself. Preface by Heribert Blass; Introduction by Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber.

Source: L’ascolto psicoanalitico in emergenza | Libri Professionali

Blass, H. (2021) A new Civilization and Its Discontents in times of COVID‐19? International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies 2021-06,  DOI: 10.1002/aps.1698

Abstract: The Covid-19 pandemic brings into focus both the burdens on individuals, and the effects on the culture and society in general. In our encounters with our patients, we as psychoanalysts have experienced the broad spectrum of possible reactions to the viral threat, just as it is found throughout society: from real fear to panic or, on the contrary, to a denial of the impending danger. We are facing drastic changes which are connected with painful losses but sometimes also with new possibilities in our accustomed lives. Nevertheless, the loss of trust in the preservation of individual and general health and of economic existence as well goes beyond the individual and leads to tensions and even cracks in the supposed social consensus. Thus, in the relationship of the individual to society, the pandemic exacerbates the ambivalence between self-interest and solidarity, not infrequently to the point of forming hostile attitudes. In this article, the author explores the question of to what extent it is possible to speak about a “new Civilization and Its Discontents” in light of the increasing social tensions under the conditions of the pandemic. It is the task of psychoanalysis to explicitly name the unconscious conflict between striving for pleasure and happiness or the search for security, in order to also contribute to dealing with the resulting aggression and fear of death in times of pandemic.
 
Source: 10.1002/aps.1698  Wiley Online library 


Nicolas Coulon Epuisé depuis de nombreuses années, ce livre répond à une demande qui se maintient de la part des psychiatres, psychothérapeutes, psychanalystes, infirmiers et infirmières en psychiatrie, soignant·e·s et thérapeutes divers, en particulier celles et ceux qui sont en formations, car il constitue un véritable «manuel» pour les soins psychiques aigus, proches de l’urgence. Cette nouvelle édition revue et augmentée, en collaboration avec Jean-Nicolas Despland et Saskia von Overbeck Ottino, propose une mise en perspective du modèle proposé par Nicolas de Coulon avec la pratique actuelle. ISBN 978-2-88901-193-3. 309 pages.
Translation: Out of print for many years, this book meets a continuing demand from psychiatrists, psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, psychiatric nurses, caregivers, and various therapists—particularly those in training—since it constitutes a true “manual” for acute mental health care, close to emergency practice. This new revised and expanded edition, produced in collaboration with Jean-Nicolas Despland and Saskia von Overbeck Ottino, offers a reappraisal of the model proposed by Nicolas de Coulon in light of current practice. ISBN 978-2-88901-193-3. 309 pages. Source: La Crise | Nicolas de Coulon


Boia Efraime (Non-IPA Mozambique)

Efraime Jr, B. and Errante, A. (2012) Rebuilding Hope on Josina Machel Island: Towards a Culturally Mediated Model of Psychotherapeutic Intervention. In International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies Special Issue: Children affected by armed conflict: Views from the Global South Part II ;Volume 9, Issue 3, pages 187–211.
Abstract:  Aided by the growing interest in the cultural dimensions of psychology, the experiences of psychologists working with communities under wartime duress and in the immediate post-war context have forced us to re-think our understanding of trauma and psychotherapeutic intervention. Recognizing the role of culture has allowed us to rethink trauma-in-context, how people and communities understand trauma, and how to explore the most effective psychotherapeutic treatments in these post-war cultural contexts. Dawes and Honwana (Children, culture and mental health: Interventions in Conditions of War. In B. Efraime Jr, P. Riedesser, J. Walter, H. Adam, & P. Steudtner (Eds), Children, war and persecution – rebuilding hope. Maputo: Rebuilding Hope, 1998) suggest a holistic view of the individual-in-context in order to fully understand the meaning an individual brings and gives to a stressful experience. This perspective allows also for an understanding of the healing resources within a community available to the individual, and the psychologist, dealing with a traumatic event.

Source: International Journal of Psychoanalytic Studies

Efraime Jr, B. (2004) The psycho-social rehabilitation of former child soldiers in Mozambique: Successes in and challenges to healing. The Ohio State University, Center of African Studies, Proceedings of the conference on Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Africa, April 16-17

Abstract: Efraime Jr. (2004) examines the psycho-social rehabilitation of former child soldiers in post-conflict Mozambique, focusing on both the achievements and the persistent challenges of healing after war. Drawing on community-based rehabilitation efforts, the paper highlights how cultural practices, family reintegration, and local social structures play a crucial role in restoring a sense of belonging and identity for these children. At the same time, the author underscores ongoing difficulties, including unresolved trauma, poverty, disrupted education, and the limits of externally driven intervention models. Overall, the paper conveys that sustainable healing for former child soldiers depends not only on psychological treatment but on broader social, cultural, and economic reintegration within their communities.

Source: Internet reference

Efraime Jr, B. and Errante, A. (2010) Reconstruindo a esperança na Ilha Josina machel: em direccao a um modelo de intervencao psicoterapêutica culturalmente mediato. In: TRIEB, Sociedade Brasileira de Psicanalise do Rio de Janeiro, Volume IX, nr 1 e 2, 2010, Editora Imprinta Express, Rio de Janeiro.
Abstract: In the past few decades, there has been a growing interest in understanding the cultural dimensions of psychology (Bruner, 1984;. This work, along with the experiences of psychologists working with communities under war-time duress and in the immediate post-war context, has forced us to re-think our understanding of trauma and psychotherapeutic intervention; that is, we are beginning to recongnize the role of culture in what constitutes a traumatic experience, how people explain and understand the sources of their trauma, how these experiences are elaborated and manifested in pychological disturbances, and even the solutions people look for to deal with situations of extreme duress (di Giroloamo, 1993;. In particular, we are beginning to recognize the limitations of conventional views of psychotraumatiology developed in the west when attempting to develop psychotherapeutic interventions in crosscultural contexts. In the African context, for example, Dawes and Honwana (1998) suggest that we need to think more holistically to the traumatized individual-in context, for it is only in this way that psychologists can understand the meaning which the individual brings and gives to a stressful experience. Moreover, it is only from this perspective that we can understand the resources available to an individual for dealing with a traumatic event. From this broader cultural context, it may become apparent, as Honwana (1997) reveals, that there are many more healing resources avaliable not only to the individual, but also to the psychologist. Indeed, psychologists may soon discover that, as healers, the "medicine" of western psychotherapy may have little currency in certain contexts, particularly if they assume that they are the only healers available to individuals and communities in crisis.

Efraime Jr, B. (2004) Armed conflict – The sexual abuse of children in Mozambique. In: The sexual abuse of young children: Research and policy issues. Richter, L; Dawes, A. & Higson-Smith, C (Eds). Human Sciences Research Council Press: Cape Town

Abstract: Efraime Jr. explores the sexual abuse of children in Mozambique within the context of prolonged armed conflict, examining how war conditions intensify children’s vulnerability to sexual violence. The chapter discusses the breakdown of family and community protections, the use of sexual abuse as a tactic of war, and the profound psychological and social consequences for child survivors. Efraime emphasizes the long-term impact of such abuse on development, identity, and social integration, while calling for context-sensitive policy responses and rehabilitation approaches that address both trauma and the wider socio-political realities of post-conflict Mozambique.

Source: Internet reference


Liliana Ferrero

Ferrero, L. (2020) La experiencia de migrar: reflexiones psicoanalíticas. Ediciones Biebel: Buenos Aires

Resumen:  Vemos en este libro cómo una psicoanalista examina en su práctica clínica cómo el psicoanálisis da una perspectiva muy apropiada a la cuestión de la migración. La brújula que alimenta este ensayo es la de resaltar la importancia del aporte psicológico para entender los procesos migratorios y los particulares modos de resolución que cada quien, migrante, encuentra. Hablar de procesos psicológicos es un modo muy amplio de referirnos al tema de interés de Liliana ya que se trata de una psicoanalista interesada en la mirada que ofrece el psicoanálisis. Amparándose en distintas teorías y autores del psicoanálisis, su énfasis está puesto en los duelos que cada migrante y sus familias experimentan, estableciendo una conexión entre los posibles modos de resolución de los mismos con las historias infantiles, el atravesamiento de duelos, situaciones traumáticas y contenciones alcanzadas en la historia infantil.

Fuente: La experiencia de migrar: Reflexiones psicoanalíticas - Liliana Ferrero - Google Libros
 

Harold Kudler

Kudler, H. (1992) "What is psychological trauma?". National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Clinical Newsletter, 2(1):8, 1991.

Abstract: In this short clinical piece, Harold Kudler clarifies what is meant by psychological trauma, particularly in the context of post-traumatic stress disorder. He describes trauma not simply as exposure to a catastrophic event, but as an experience that overwhelms an individual’s capacity to cope, integrate, and make meaning. Kudler emphasizes that trauma disrupts fundamental assumptions about safety, trust, and control, leading to persistent symptoms such as intrusive memories, emotional numbing, hyperarousal, and avoidance. The paper highlights the subjective nature of trauma—what is traumatic depends not only on the event itself but on the person’s psychological resources and context—and underscores the importance of understanding trauma as a clinical and relational phenomenon rather than just a diagnostic label.

Source: PubMed Central

Kudler, H. (1992) “The limiting effects of paradigms on the concept of psychological trauma". In The International Handbook of Human Response to Trauma, A.Y. Shalev, R. Yehuda, A.C. McFarlane, Editors. Plenum, New York, 2000.  

Abstract: Paradigms provide a world view. They organize observations, theories, and facts about a given subject into a cohesive working model. Paradigms can shift but not so easily or so often. A momentous discovery is not, in itself, a paradigm shift. When Fleming realized that a certain kind of mold could inhibit bacterial growth, he made an important discovery. The subsequent technical development of penicillin and other highly effective antibiotics led to a stunning and permanent change in the role of the doctor. When the practice of medicine was transformed from caring for dying patients in their homes into prescribing life-saving pills in the office, that was a paradigm shift. 

In this chapter, Harold Kudler critically examines how dominant clinical and scientific paradigms shape—and often constrain—the way psychological trauma is conceptualized and treated. He argues that prevailing models, particularly those centered on post-traumatic stress disorder, risk narrowing the understanding of trauma by privileging certain symptom patterns, types of events, and research methods while marginalizing others. Kudler highlights how diagnostic, biological, and cognitive-behavioral frameworks can obscure the subjective, developmental, cultural, and relational dimensions of traumatic experience. The chapter calls for a more integrative and flexible approach to trauma, one that acknowledges multiple paradigms and remains open to complexity, meaning-making, and individual variation in human responses to overwhelming events.

Source:  PubMed Central

Kudler, H. (2007) “The need for psychodynamic principles in outreach to new combat veterans and their families" . Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry, 35(1): 39-50, 2007.
 
Abstract: This paper argues that the psychological difficulties faced by returning combat veterans and their families are best understood through a psychodynamic, dimensional framework rather than a narrow biological or diagnostic model of PTSD. Drawing on historical, clinical, and contemporary research, the author shows that most post-deployment distress reflects normal but painful struggles of readjustment rather than discrete mental disorders. He proposes a public-health–oriented, outreach-based approach that emphasizes adaptation, meaning-making, and collaboration with veterans and families, suggesting that such a model can both reduce stigma and revitalize psychiatric theory and practice.

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Kudler, H., Straits-Troster, K. (1992) “Identifying and treating post deployment mental health problems among new combat veterans". North Carolina Medical Journal, 69(1):38-41, 2008.

Abstract: This paper examines the range of mental health difficulties experienced by U.S. combat veterans returning from deployment, with particular attention to PTSD, depression, substance use, and traumatic brain injury. Kudler and Straits-Troster highlight the challenges of early identification in primary care and community settings, noting barriers such as stigma, somatic presentation of distress, and delayed help-seeking. The authors outline integrated, stepped-care approaches to treatment, emphasizing collaboration between the Department of Defense, Veterans Affairs, and civilian healthcare systems to improve access, continuity of care, and long-term outcomes for returning veterans.

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Kudler, H.S., Blank, A.S., Krupnick, J.L., Herman, J.L., Horowitz, M.J. (2008) “The psychodynamic treatment of PTSD". In Effective Treatments For PTSD: Practice Guidelines from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, E. Foa, T.M. Keane, and M.J. Friedman, Editors. Guilford Publications, Inc., New York, 2008. 

Abstract: Kudler et al. (2008) outlines a psychodynamic approach to the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), situating it within contemporary trauma theory and clinical practice. The authors emphasize how traumatic experiences disrupt meaning, affect regulation, and the continuity of self, and how these disruptions emerge within transference–countertransference dynamics. Drawing on psychoanalytic and psychodynamic traditions, the chapter highlights the role of unconscious processes, repetition, dissociation, and defensive adaptations in PTSD. Clinical attention is given to the therapeutic relationship as a central vehicle for working through traumatic memory, restoring symbolization, and integrating affect and narrative. While acknowledging the evidence base for cognitive-behavioral approaches, the authors argue that psychodynamic treatment is particularly valuable for complex, chronic, and relationally rooted trauma. The chapter offers a nuanced, clinically grounded account of how psychodynamic psychotherapy can foster psychological integration and recovery in traumatized individuals.

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Kudler, H. (2012)  A psychodynamic conceptualization of retraumatization. In M.P. Duckworth & V.M., Follette (Eds.), Retraumatization: Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention (pp.33-59). New York, NY: Routledge, 2012.

Abstract: The book provides guidance for treatment providers working with diverse populations, ranging from more commonly conceptualized trauma survivors ( e.g, veterans, sexually abused children ) to the less familiar (e.g, political refugees, individuals with physical disabilities) It also provides several chapters focused on introducing treatments from different orientations.  

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Kudler, H. (2017) The Psychoanalytic Concept and Treatment of Psychological Trauma: An Evolving Perspective.  In S. N. Gold, J. M. Cook, C.J. Dalenberg (Eds.), APA Handbook of Trauma Psychology: Volume 2 (pp. 295-326), Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Press, 2017.
 
Abstract: In this chapter, Kudler traces the evolution of psychoanalytic thinking on psychological trauma, showing how contemporary psychoanalysis integrates ideas about overwhelming experience, dissociation, memory, and meaning-making. He emphasizes trauma as a disruption of the self and of relational capacities, rather than only a response to external events. The chapter also outlines psychoanalytic approaches to treatment, highlighting the centrality of the therapeutic relationship in restoring continuity, symbolization, and emotional integration.

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Kudler, H. (2018) Repeating the Past in Pathology and Theory: Practical Suggestions for the Field of Traumatic Stress. In E. J. Schreiber (Ed.), Healing Trauma: The Power of Listening (pp. 39-54), New York: International Psychoanalytic Books, 2018.
 
Abstract: This chapter discusses the historical and theoretical bases for understanding and treating psychological trauma, emphasizing how psychoanalytic concepts like transference and countertransference are of practical importance in therapy regardless of the specific treatment type used. The book as a whole focuses on the importance of listening and narrative in the healing process. 

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Kudler, H.S., Carr, R.B. (2019) Psychodynamic psychiatry.  In B.A. Moore & W.E. Penk (Eds.), Treating PTSD in Military Personnel: A Clinical Handbook (pp. 117-135), New York: The Guilford Press, 2019.

Abstract: Psychodynamic psychotherapy usually involves a higher level of therapist activity than classical psychoanalysis, but the therapist is still careful to not muddy the waters as transference coalesces and expresses itself. Theoretical and technical considerations aside, psychodynamic psychotherapy, like most other forms of treatment, has critically important supportive components typified by reassurance and help with problem solving and self- esteem. Psychodynamic psychotherapy can be conducted individually, in groups, or in family therapy on either an inpatient or an outpatient basis. Although not yet rigorously tested, it appears that telemental health applications of psychodynamic psychotherapy can be as effective as face-to-face treatment. No one form of psychodynamic psychotherapy is intrinsically superior to others. The choice of therapy will reflect patient needs, wishes, attributes, and practical concerns, as well as the judgment, training, and experience of the therapist. The goal is to match the treatment to the patient within a specific clinical situation. This chapter briefly discusses the research on psychodynamic psychotherapy with civilian and military populations. It then discusses the strengths and limitations of psychodynamic psychotherapy with military personnel.

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Kudler, H. (2019) Clinical practice guidelines for posttraumatic stress disorder: Are they still clinical? Psychotherapy, 56(3):383-390. doi:10.1037/pst0000236, 2019. 
 
Abstract: This article traces the evolution of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for the treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) to illustrate how their construction and use have become intertwined and often conflated with other pressing clinical and scientific controversies. This review locates critical analysis of key documents regarding PTSD CPG construction within the context of longstanding tensions and frank competition about the relative value of science and clinical experience in the effort to establish best practices. As is true of so many dichotomies, the competition between science and clinical practice is more apparent than real. The growing tendency of developers to exclude common clinical practices in the construction of (and within the discussion sections of) CPGs for PTSD imposes a false sense of precision and predictability on clinical practice, which is anything but precise or predictable. As such, it raises the question as to whether these CPGs are still clinical at all. It also distracts from critically important opportunities to harness the tension between competing perspectives and domains to significantly advance the care of patients. 

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Kudler, H. (2020) ‘The soldiers come home’: Lessons learned (and not learned) through American experience in World War I. Chapter 14 in L. van Bergen & E. Vermetten (Eds), The First World War and Health: Rethinking Resilience (pp.273-299), Leiden, The Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2020.

Abstract: In “The soldiers come home,” Harold Kudler examines how the United States understood and responded to the psychological consequences of World War I for returning soldiers. The chapter traces early insights into war-related trauma—then described as “shell shock”—alongside the social, medical, and political failures to adequately recognise and care for affected veterans. Kudler shows how important lessons about trauma, resilience, and moral responsibility were partially learned and repeatedly forgotten, shaping later American responses to combat stress and influencing contemporary debates on trauma, memory, and recovery.

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Jill Scharff

Scharff, J. S. and Scharff, D. S. (1996) Object Relations Therapy of Physical and Sexual Trauma. Northvale NJ: Jason Aronson. 

Abstract: This book brings a relational perspective to the integration of psychoanalytic and trauma theories in order to understand the effects of overwhelming physical or psychological trauma, including sexual abuse, injury, and birth defect. The Scharffs draw from their object relations therapy with individuals, families, and couples recovering from trauma an abundance of relevant clinical examples. Their treatment approach, influenced by Fairbairn, Klein, and Winnicott, is respectful of the patient's experience. They advise avoiding premature interpretations that impose their own reality on patients because this traumatizes them just as their abuser did. The Scharffs' demonstration of clinical processes helps therapists contain their own countertransference to trauma so as to be fully present with their clients and consistently able to confront abuse patterns in society. The object relations approach not only deals with trauma's impact on the individual but views it in its cultural and interpersonal context as well.

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Cosimo Schinaia

Schinaia, C. (2019) Respect for the Environment. Psychoanalytic Reflections on the Ecological Crisis, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 100, 2, pp. 272-286. 

Abstract: This article takes as its starting point the way in which the relationship between man and nature is outlined in certain passages of Freud's work, in order to highlight how few psychoanalysts have addressed the intrinsic unconscious aspects of the relationship between man and the environment. We have to wait until the 1960s and 1970s for the reflections by Searles, with his references to the theoretical work of Freud, Klein, and Winnicott. Searles’ writings are a milestone in the analysis of individual and group defences in relation to the ecological crisis. Specific instances are provided by three clinical vignettes, which analyse some defensive moves in relation to the serious problem of lack of respect for the environment and concern about climate change. From the defensive move highlighted in the analytic relationship, mutatis mutandis, it is possible to highlight defensive moves on a group level, also observing how ecological changes may reorient psychoanalytic thought about the psyche and its dynamics.

Source: Respect for the environment: Psychoanalytic reflections on the ecological crisis: The International Journal of Psychoanalysis: Vol 100 , No 2 - Get Access

Schinaia C. (2021) Quali sono le resistenze psichiche che ci impediscono di prendere coscienza dell’emergenza climatica, Gazzetta Ambiente, XXVII, 2, pp. 27-36. 

Abstract: Com’è possibile che l’umanità sappia che il suo modo di vivere la mette in pericolo e non sia capace di modificare tale sistema di vita per proteggere se stessa e il futuro dei suoi figli? Cosimo Schinaia, in questo articolo, esplora le dinamiche individuali e collettive che portano verso ’un’apatia generalizzata’ nei confronti della crisi ambientale.

Source: Quali sono le resistenze psichiche che ci impediscono di prendere coscienza dell’emergenza climatica, Gazzetta Ambiente, di C. Schinaia | SPI

Schinaia C. (2021) La psicoanàlisi davant de la crisi ecològica, Revista Catalana de Psicoanàlisi, XXXVIII, 2, pp.

Abstract: In facing the ecological crisis, the author exposes the need to explore the individual dynamics and the underlying conflicts, as well as the family dynamics and lifestyles that we learn and make our own. Many of the defence mechanisms described in the individual field can also be found as group defensive modalities, which psychoanalysts have the duty to recognize.

Source: La psicoanàlisi davant de la crisi ecològica - Dialnet

Schinaia C. (2021) Mecanismos de defensa individuales y grupales de cara a la emergencia ambiental. Revista de Psicoanálisis de la Asociación Psicoanalítica de Madrid. Negaciones y Negacionismos, 36, 96, pp. 685-713.

Abstract: El autor parte de la relación de Freud con la naturaleza, subrayando la ambivalencia. Es necesario esperar a los años 60 para que se inicie, con H. Searles, una reflexión en torno a la relación ser humano-ambiente. La reflexión continúa ulteriormente, en los años 2000, con el estudio de los mecanismos de defensa individuales y grupales en relación con la emergencia ambiental y estos son descritos puntualmente. El artículo concluye describiendo las modalidades a través de las cuales el psicoanálisis puede servir de ayuda e incitando a los analistas a la asunción de responsabilidades en relación con la necesidad de hacerse cargo del cuidado del planeta, participando en el desarrollo de una ética ambiental.

Source: PEP | Read - Mecanismos de defensa individuales y grupales de cara a la emergencia ambiental

Schinaia C. (2020)  Inconsciente y emergencia ambiental. Reflexiones para una agenda común entre psicoanálisis y ecología. Biebel, Buenos Aires.

Abstract: El psicoanálisis es un recurso imprescindible para profundizar en el estudio de los mecanismos de defensa individuales y comunitarios que impiden la toma de conciencia plena y madura acerca de la grave crisis ambiental. Ante la evidencia objetiva de los daños ocasionados pero también de los que potencialmente podemos causar, aun a sabiendas de su magnitud y peligrosidad, nos resulta difícil tomar consciencia emocionalmente, más que cognitivamente, de lo que sucedió, de lo que está sucediendo y lo que aún puede suceder. Resulta imposible hablar de un imaginario individual sin considerar el imaginario colectivo, que lo subyace y lo impregna, en una relación de codeterminación recíproca. Y no podemos confiar en la imagen de un entorno que sea solo un afuera desconectado de la representación que de él tenemos internamente. El libro, que Lorena Preta define como necesario, se propone iluminar las confusas investiduras afectivas y las angustias que sostienen defensas patológicas como la proyección, la represión, la intelectualización, la escisión, el desplazamiento y la negación, en un entretejido de reflexiones acerca de las historias y las narraciones individuales que cobran vida en el consultorio y el imaginario colectivo.

Source: [PDF] Inconsciente y emergencia ambiental de Cosimo Schinaia () | 9789878362083

Schinaia C. (2020) L’Inconscio e l’ambiente. Psicoanalisi e ecologia. Alpes, Roma.

Abstract:  There are books that make you reflect on issues that, no matter how broad the scope of your interest or attention, you may have never paused long enough to examine or discover what you don't know. This is one of those books. For Freud, the term psychoanalysis has three definitions: (1) “a procedure for the investigation of mental processes which are almost inaccessible in any other way; (2) “a method (based upon that investigation) for the treatment of neurotic disorders”; (3) “a collection of psychological information obtained along those lines, which is gradually being accumulated into a new scientific discipline” (1923, p. 235).

The commitment that Cosimo Schinaia has made in recent years has a lot to do with the third meaning, that is, to try to use the psychoanalytic method to understand issues concerning the place where we live. For Schinaia, because of our nomadic nature and the vagaries of history, home is always an imaginary place, more grounded in a phantasmatic and mental landscape than in a physical one. The place we live in has an internal reality. Deterioration of the physical environment that surrounds this internal representation of our place, called home, has an emotional impact on that internal reality. Schinaia examines the complex overlapping of external and internal reality in our psychic reactions to environmental issues.

In relation to Freud's third point, this overlapping of internal and environmental forces converges in a new scientific discipline: an approach to the psychoanalytic dimension aimed at questioning precisely the events we are immersed in but do not duly attend to at the conscious level. As his book clearly demonstrates, such events are more firmly rooted in our unconscious. “Psychic traffic jams” (ingorghi psichici) are defined in the book as moments of jumble between external experience and internal elaborations, in the delicate balance between human beings and the environment.

Source: PEP | Read - L'inconscio e L'ambiente: psicoanalisi e ecologia (The Unconscious and the Environment: Psychoanalysis and Ecology). By Cosimo Schinaia. Rome: Alpes Italia, 2020, 176 pp. 

Schinaia C. (2021)  Flexibilité et rigueur en psychanalyse à l’époque du coronavirus, Le Coq Héron, 247, 4, pp.  41. Abstract: L’auteur met en évidence les potentialités, mais aussi les risques des séances analytiques en ligne pour éviter de les idéaliser ou de les diaboliser. Il ne s’agit pas de mettre en œuvre un éclectisme théorico-clinique générique, ni de préconiser une sorte d’intuitivité toute-puissante, mais de réfléchir sur la compatibilité et l’incompatibilité relatives des différentes modalités thérapeutiques, par exemple sur ce qui est perdu et ce qui est maintenu, sur ce qui est nouveau et ce qui peut être ramené au connu dans les analyses à distance, sur ce qui doit se référer à une théorisation à la fois rigoureuse et librement fluctuante, vivante, élastiquement transitive, faite de continuité et d’imbrications entre différents modèles, mais aussi de ruptures et de désarticulations. Une courte vignette clinique permet d’approfondir certaines dynamiques transférentielles pendant une séance en ligne.
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Schinaia C. (2020) Flexibilité et rigueur en psychanalyse à l’époque du coronavirus, Le Coq Héron, 247, 4, pp.  41 Abstract : L’auteur met en évidence les potentialités, mais aussi les risques des séances analytiques en ligne pour éviter de les idéaliser ou de les diaboliser. Il ne s’agit pas de mettre en œuvre un éclectisme théorico-clinique générique, ni de préconiser une sorte d’intuitivité toute-puissante, mais de réfléchir sur la compatibilité et l’incompatibilité relatives des différentes modalités thérapeutiques, par exemple sur ce qui est perdu et ce qui est maintenu, sur ce qui est nouveau et ce qui peut être ramené au connu dans les analyses à distance, sur ce qui doit se référer à une théorisation à la fois rigoureuse et librement fluctuante, vivante, élastiquement transitive, faite de continuité et d’imbrications entre différents modèles, mais aussi de ruptures et de désarticulations. Une courte vignette clinique permet d’approfondir certaines dynamiques transférentielles pendant une séance en ligne. Source : Flexibilité et rigueur en psychanalyse à l’ép... Catalogue en ligne

Schinaia C. (2022). Els espais domèstics i les vivències dels habitants després de la pandèmia, Revista Catalana de Psicoanàlisi, XXXIX, 1, pp. 77-100.  Abstract: ‘La cultura contemporanea dell’abitare aveva già messo alla prova l’utilizzo completamente privato degli spazi domestici, trasformando le abitazioni in spazi di lavoro, luoghi di educazione, di studio, di sport, di contemplazione e ibridando al loro interno atti e rituali pubblici e privati.’ La crisi pandemica ha ulteriormente trasformato i vissuti dell’ambiente domestico in cui abitiamo. L’articolo di Cosimo Schinaia mostra attraverso un caso clinico di analisi a distanza come l’affievolirsi dei confini tra esterno e interno abbia fatto emergere vissuti di intrusione e di spersonalizzazione. (Maria Antoncecchi) Source: Microsoft Word - Schinaia-spazi domestici.docx


Analia Wald
 
Wald, A. (2022) Notas sobre vulnerabilidade e desampara na infância. En En Revista Brasileira de Psicanálise. Órgão  Oficial da federação. Brasileira de Psicanálise Volume 56, n 4. 2022. 

Abstract: A pesquisa de Wald, A. sobre vulnerabilidade e desamparo na infância, aborda a  complexidade dos impactos sociais de eventos catastróficos e a necessidade de  entender as diferentes dimensões de vulnerabilidade. A proposta de Wilches-Chaux (1993) inclui uma abordagem que considera as vulnerabilidades físicas,  econômicas, políticas, técnicas, culturais, educativas, institucionais, naturais, técnicas,  ideológicas e ecológicas. Essa perspectiva é especialmente relevante para analisar as condições de vulnerabilidade de crianças e adolescentes que vivem em contextos de exclusão Social. 

Translation: Wald’s research on vulnerability and helplessness in childhood addresses the complexity of the social impacts of catastrophic events and the need to understand the different dimensions of vulnerability. Wilches-Chaux’s (1993) proposal includes an approach that takes into account physical, economic, political, technical, cultural, educational, institutional, natural, ideological, and ecological vulnerabilities. This perspective is particularly relevant for analyzing the conditions of vulnerability of children and adolescents living in contexts of social exclusion.

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Wald, A. “Notas sobre vulnerabilidad y desamparo en la infancia”. En RUP 127. Revista Uruguaya de Psicoanálisis. pp. 90-101.

Abstract: El documento discute la vulnerabilidad subjetiva y el desamparo en la infancia desde una perspectiva psicoanalítica. Explica que la vulnerabilidad subjetiva es una condición estructural que se manifiesta como angustia o desestructuración ante situaciones de pérdida o desvalimiento. También explora cómo situaciones traumáticas repetidas o permanentes pueden afectar la subjetividad de los niños y llevar a un colapso del sentido. 

Source: Vulnerabilidad Infantil y Desamparo | PDF | Psicoanálisis | Trauma psicólogico
Wald, A. (2022) SALIDA DE LA PANDEMIA. TRAUMA ACTUAL. ADOLESCENCIA, Revista Psicanálise, de la SBPdePA,  v. 29 n. 2 (2022), pp. 167-184. Abstract: Seminário Aberto da Sociedade Brasileira de Psicanálise de Porto Alegre: “Saída da pandemia. Trauma atual. Adolescência”, realizado em 11 de outubro de 2021 Source: Saída da pandemia. Trauma atual. Adolescência | Psicanálise - Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Psicanálise de Porto Alegre