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Sigmund Freud’s 1920 text Beyond the Pleasure Principle marked a radical cut in Freud’s work, in the history of psychoanalysis, and in the very conception of the human being. If until then, the principle of pleasure was conceived as the principle that governed the psychic Read more…
Miquel Bassols (Barcelona, 1958) is a member of the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis and the École de la Cause freudienne, professor and coordinator of the Clinical Section of Barcelona (Freudian Field Institute). He has obtained the degree of Doctor in the Département of Psychanalyse Read more…
The medical side effects of COVID-19 are well known, but we are still unaware of the side effects that will occur as time goes on. At perinatal level, it is well known that, after the introduction of a paradigm shift with developmental and family-centered care, Read more…
From a place open to the word of the subject and to the complex thinking that runs through psychoanalytic theory and practice, and with the aim of avoiding the instrumentalisation of subjectivity, I try to address in this article the clinical and social dialogue between Read more…
Centenaries are an occasion to celebrate cultural anniversaries. Here we are one hundred years after Sigmund Freud’s writings, a century is a long time and at the same time it passes quickly. What was Freud’s vision of “the masses”? In the article, I will recover Read more…
This comprehensive interview allows an approach into the rich and innovative thought of the French-speaking philosopher, feminist, linguist, and psychoanalyst Luce Irigaray. Through a series of questions, and starting from the difficult situation in which the pandemic has placed us, the keys to its theoretical production are addressed, Read more…
This article arises from the speech I gave at a conference in Budapest. It intends to make a reflection on prevention in health and to help professionals and institutions involved in health to become aware of the need to create healthy emotional bonds between human Read more…
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This article deals with the new Euthanasia Decriminalization Act that comes into force on June 25, 2021. It consists of 4 sections: the first are concepts and definitions of what euthanasia means, sedation, dignified death and limitation of treatment among others. The second tries to Read more…
[Automatic translation from Catalan]: On 17 December 2020, the Congress of Deputies approved the Proposition of Organic Law for the Regulation of the euthanasia. On 24 March 2021, it was published in the Official Journal of the State, as Organic Law 3/2021, of 24 March, Read more…
The article deals with some healing factors of the therapeutic relationship where the basic tool is not necessarily the interpretation, nor the symbolic value of the word, but aspects related to moments of genuine spontaneity, prioritizing the environment or relational climate. It highlights the richness Read more…
Joel Paris is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University (Canada). In this book Paris addresses a highly topical issue: the enormous increase in the number of diagnoses associated with bipolar disorder, not only in the adult population, but also in children. Read more…
The COVID-19 pandemic has turned distance therapy into a very useful clinical practice and has raised the need to deepen it. This article discusses this treatment modality and places it in the context of its emergence. We reflect on its virtual characteristics: time, space, distance, Read more…
Discover that one has not always existed1 implies a deep narcissistic wound for anyone. There is always a story that pre-exists us and that sustains us, a story that is built from object relationships, generation after generation. This work aims to be a reflection on Read more…
This is the story of a patient I have been working with for years in psychotherapy, describing his experiences and his observation (internal and external) at the time of his hospitalisation due to COVID-19 infection. With the permission of the patient, who gave me this Read more…
«The presence of a book on melancholy is not surprising… It is rarer, on the other hand, to find a book on psychiatry that deals with melancholy. It is pleasant but curious news at this time». With these words, José María Álvarez and Fernando Colina begin the prologue of the book Read more…
1st Award shared in the IV Ángel Garma Award to best unpublished work on psychoanalysis. Barcelona, 2019 «Gender and sexual difference from a psychoanalytic perspective» by Jorge Marugán Kraus The article co-awarded in the fourth Ángel Garma Award to best unpublisehd work on psychoanalysis is Read more…
The concept of «narcissistic perversion» (NP) explains a functioning that manifests itself in very different ways, with its pathological nature often going unnoticed, both in mental health and related fields (medical specialties, social services, justice, education). The interest of knowing and identifying NP is that, Read more…
In March 2020, the Newborn’s Study Group, faced with the outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, considered the consequences of measures to restrict the presence of parents in neonatal units. These measures modify the paradigm in the Developmental and Family Centered Care (DCFC) model. The adverse Read more…
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[Text in Catalan]: A les darreries de setembre va morir de forma sobtada Carme Vilaginés, companya del Grup AcSent. La Carme, que provenia d’una família molt senzilla, ben aviat es va haver de posar a treballar, primer com a modista i de secretària després. El Read more…
[Text in Catalan]: El moviment d’emancipació femenina ha aspirat i aspira a harmonitzar dos moviments de la democràcia moderna que no sempre han anat equilibrats: la universalitat dels drets humans i la dualitat dels sexes, present en tota la tradició utòpica del segle XIX (pensem Read more…
The current times, of post-modernity or over-modernity, are characterized by weak, fragile and liquid relationships, as Zygmunt Bauman says. It is becoming more and more common, especially in adolescents, but not only in them, a kind of transference attachment that I’m going to call «Facebook-style», Read more…