Dr. Francesc Tosquelles' legacy
Barcelona, June 10th, 2023
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Science and clinical
The relationship between two views, the scientific and the clinical, is addressed when contemplating the human being in his suffering. Subjective uniqueness will always difficult a simplistic statistical approach like the one that underlies so-called evidence- based medicine. The importance of the unconscious underlines the Read more…
To think the suicide
Suicide has a long social, cultural and religious history within Western society, which has shaped the way in which suicide has been experienced, understood and managed by society, with important repercussions on the way we relate to suicides and their families. Suicide is currently one Read more…
Tosquelles, going and return
This article develops Francesc Tosquelles thesis and it is linked to his return to Institut Pere Mata. He returns all scientific knowledge acquired before 1939 in Reus, Catalonia and Spain, applied and developed later in his professional stage at the Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole hospital, known finally as Read more…
Putting into words in teenager’s clinic
Many of the pubescents and teenagers whom we attend nowadays share a characteristic profile: defiant, limitless, and with little paternal presence. Sometimes they request to be attended by someone with whom they can build a compensatory bond for a failing paternal function. Then the analyst Read more…
A century ago: The Ego and The Id (1923)
In my opinion, it is worth recalling the dates that constitute in the psychoanalytic world, and therefore in Western culture and elsewhere, historical milestones that have produced a cultural turning point. Thus we have the 1923 article: «The Ego and The Id». Freud showed the Read more…
Remembering Stanislas Tomkiewicz
Stanislas Tomkiewicz (Warsaw 1925, Paris 2003), was a pediatrician and child and adolescent psychiatrist of great professional and personal prestige. A survivor of the Warsaw ghetto and the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, he arrived in France as a political refugee and seriously ill. His existence and Read more…
Short view of Francesc Tosquelles’ work and its influence in Catalonia
We review the work of Tosquelles, which developed in the field of psychiatric hospitals, but integrated elements from the fields of art and politics in a bidirectional way, with contributions of mutual enrichment. He developed it initially in Reus and, after the civil war, in Read more…
Why do we see dinosaurs in the clouds
«We see what we know», said the authors. And yes, countless times we have seen how, in the face of the same facts, people capture and interpret things quite different. The reality we are trying to know is not that, but it is our thinking that is responsible Read more…
Autistic spectrum disorder [ASD]: from DSM-5 to psychoanalysis
This paper aims to be an in-depth reading, from the perspective of psychoanalysis, of the Autism Spectrum Disorder [ASD] in the DSM-5. The hypothesis from which we start proposes to confirm that the concepts and terms included to define this diagnostic label are nourished by Read more…
Psychoanalysis versus a theory of life and gender diversity
I raise the debate on gender that bursts among psychoanalysts with the challenge of a conference by the philosopher Paul B. Preciado, and I comment on the various responses from Psychoanalysis. For my part, I make an approach about the laws or rules of normalization Read more…
Freud and the wars
The views held by Sigmund Freud on war, a phenomenon understood as a social symptom, are collected. It brings together his ideas on war throughout his work, especially in the period around the First World War and the years leading up to the Second Great Read more…
Chemsex and psychotherapy virtual group
Chemsex is the intentional use of drugs to have sex for a long period of time (from several hours to several days) with the purpose of enhancing the sexual experience and that only occurs among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men Read more…
Psychodynamic factors underlying recurrence in cases of women victims of gender violence
Clinical experience with female victims of gender violence shows that in a considerable number of cases there is a repetition in that these women are recurrent victims of physical and / or psychological violence, either by the same or different partners. This has two sides: Read more…
Presentation of Valéria Ferreira
[Text in Spanish]: Valeria Ferreira es psicoterapeuta de orientación psicoanalítica y psicóloga sanitaria. Siempre le ha interesado enlazar la práctica clínica con la investigación teórica y, es de este modo como se ha construido su carrera profesional. Fruto de esta inquietud han sido los numerosos Read more…
Relational psychoanalysis, relational colloquium
[Text in Catalan]: Fins fa poc, el paradigma psicoanalític dominant era mecanicista i intrasubjectiu i el psicoterapeuta s’havia de situar en una posició neutral, a la recerca d’un punt d’observació objectiu en què el passat era una dada històrica fixa —empremta mnèmica—. A partir de Read more…
Creativity and its role in overcoming trauma
[Text in Spanish]: A partir de mi interés por los mecanismos de funcionamiento primitivo de la mente, he tratado, tal vez pretendido, incluir entre éstos también la creatividad. He intentado buscar los orígenes más antiguos de la creatividad, los que la preceden como experiencia cognoscitiva, Read more…
Presentation of article «Creativity and its role in overcoming trauma» by Francesco Spadaro
[Text in Spanish]: Cuando somos sorprendidos por algún acontecimiento surge inmediatamente la pregunta por la causa: ¿por qué ha pasado esto o aquello? Esta pregunta tiene la facultad de lanzarnos hacia la búsqueda de una respuesta que suele comenzar con la conjunción causal porque. Tanto Read more…