Papers de psicoanàlisi - Papeles de psicoanálisis
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…
[Automatic translation from Spanish]: The spirit of the times or background noise in which the Vocabulary of Psychopathology (published by Xoroi Editions, 2023) has been written, could well be represented by El Roto in one of his cartoons; for example, in which he draws an academic Read more…
[Automatic translation from Spanish]: Regina Bayo-Borras Falcon has written a book that is, firstly, indispensable for understanding the difficulty that it has been, and continues to be, to be a woman in the society from which we come and to which we belong in this Western world, which is only apparently more open to change Read more…
[Automatic translation from Spanish]: A few months ago, at the Psychoanalysis Committee of the Official College of Psychology of Catalonia, we invited Guillermo Bodner to give his lecture entitled «Current problems: new pathologies, new normalities». This invitation has a precedent. It was in the context Read more…
This article aims to pay homage to and publicize the life work of some women who made the surrealist cause their own; and actively contributed to the development of the movement. The article presents a collection of artists from different fields: a painter, a photographer, Read more…
The clinical presentation of patients who come to the psychoanalyst’s office has been changing in recent times. This paper discusses the validity of Freud’s basic proposals despite clinical transformations. The author believes that the basic postulate of an irreducible dynamic unconscious, only available through its Read more…
In these reflections it is assumed that climate change and the ecological crisis are phenomena closely related to the current social organization system. After criticizing the aforementioned system, some of the structural changes that would be necessary, at the macrosocial level, to combat and not Read more…
We think with the whole body. The embodied mind. For a long time, psychoanalysis has prioritized the verbal formulation of mental contents as a tool to resolve conflicts and psychic suffering, but has given little conceptual and clinical presence to the body in the psychoanalytic Read more…
This essay is a critical analysis to the diagnostic criteria from DSM. These are focused on the phenomenological and the empirical, in a reductionist medical manner. Centered around the biological, supposedly genetic, placing all psychiatric issues within the brain. They work with the medical discourse. Read more…
The theater played a very important role in Sigmund Freud’s thinking and in the development of his theory. The great Swedish playwright August Strindberg, a contemporary of Freud, we don’t know if he had a relationship with Freud, but he came close to Charcot’s thinking, Read more…
In this article, it discusses what Freud published a hundred years ago or a century ago. The British publishing company asked him for a brief exposition of his work to include it in their dictionary, which reflected the people who had culturally contributed to the Read more…
From Jacques Derrida’s concept of «event», contemporary socio-cultural changes and their impact on the Oedipean organization are addressed, along with their influence on current sufferings. Hypotheses, drawn from studies on complexity, chaos, and self-organization, are proposed to contemplate the consequences and future of these changes. Read more…
[Automatic translation from Spanish]: Beauty, which helps to live, also helps to die.Albert Camus Dear Salvador, when I received the news on 5 September that you had left us, I walked inconsolable on the street without knowing where to go and Handel’s aria Pena Tirana Read more…
Have been published paper magazine issue 51. You will find articles by Jordi del Río, Jaume Patuel, Mercè Rigo, Beatriz Salzberg, Teresa Sunyé, Antoni Talarn, Guillermo Bodner, Marisa Ara, Carlos Rey, Antonio Pombo. Read more…
The rise of silent depression in childhood and adolescence is a problem of great concern to mental health professionals because of the hidden suffering involved. The difficulty of working in depth with children and adolescents means that many depressions of this nature are often overlooked. Read more…
The author goes through Christophe Dejours’ latest book, Ce qu’il y a de meilleur en nous: Travailler et honorer la vie [The best of us: working and honouring life], which is a continuation of Dejours’ previous book Souffrance en France [Suffering in France]. In this Read more…
In this text I will try to think about this keystone of our psychoanalytic theory, Oedipus. It turns out that society has changed a lot since Freud’s time, and somehow we continue to use the same theoretical framework for over a century; it is therefore Read more…
In the patriarchal phallocentric era, women are seen and treated by the male artist as an object-thing, with no traits of autonomy or personal integrity. This is reflected in Freud’s writings and in many productions of authors more motivated by success than by art itself. Read more…
After many years of practicing with children, we realize its purpose remains ambiguous. As psychoanalysts, we are interested in rethinking the elements and variables within the psychoanalytic framework today. An introduction on the specific use of time as a valuable element rises above any other, Read more…
[Automatic translation from Spanish]: After a prologue by the psychiatrist Dr. José Manuel Ibañez, the publishers of the book that we want to discuss, present in their «Introduction» the reasons why they have gathered the contributions of thirteen professionals Read more…
[Automatic translation from Spanish]: Finally, and with a certain delay due to the pandemic, we were able to share with a great number of colleges our 11th Psychoanalysis Exchange Conference on April 21st and 22nd. On this occasion, they are about «The feminine singularity: body, Read more…
[Automatic translation from Spanish]: Amin Maalouf (2019) pointed out in one of his texts that every writer has the obligation to act as a lookout. A writer, said the great Lebanese author, must be Read more…
Have been published paper magazine issue 50 which includes a monograph dedicated to Dr. Francesc Tosquelles. You will find articles by Carmen Amorós, José María Franco, Joan Homs, Susana Volosín, Iñaki Markez, Jacques Tosquellas, Belén Pardo, Miquel Bassols, Pere Llovet, Julieta Lucero, Florencia Bernthal, Mari Carmen Giménez, Antonio Soler, Jerónimo Erviti, Antoni Talarn Read more…
[Automatic translation from Spanish]: To tell what Francesc Tosquelles left me as a legacy, from a professional perspective, is something very difficult, perhaps almost obscene. However, I will try to respond to this, although it will certainly be very partial. To this end, I will Read more…
[Automatic translation from Spanish]: First thing comes to mind is: I want to pass on something? To leave any marks? When I talk about Tosquelles, his history and my relationship with him, do I want to convey anything about the marks that others have left Read more…
[Automatic translation from Spanish]: My arrival at the Pere Mata Institute was my inclusion in institutional psychiatry and psychotherapy. My teacher was Dr. Francesc Tosquelles. I will tell you about the Tosquelles that I met in 1977, the year in which I began my residence Read more…
[Automatic translation from Catalan]: «Psychoanalysis in backwards» wants to evoke first of all the poem entitled «A l’inrevés» (In backwards) by Gabriel Ferrater, someone with whom Francesc Tosquelles felt very close, and not only because of the condition of Reus’ resident that they shared with. Read more…
[Automatic translation from Catalan]: My first contact with the professional world of clinical psychology and psychoanalysis was in 1973, when I started doing internships at the Mental Institute of Santa Creu and Sant Pau, and immediately put me on the path of institutional analysis. For Read more…
Francesc Tosquelles is one of the leading representatives of French institutional psychotherapy, a psychiatric current whose conceptual seeds were probably sown in pre-civil war Catalonia around the figure of Emilio Mira i López, and whose technical applications were developed in France, the land of exile Read more…
[Automatic translation from Spanish]: On 10 June, we presented the first Day of the journal «Intercambios/Intercanvis Psychoanalysis papers». The Day was raised as a double commemoration. Firstly, to welcome the fact that the «Intercambios/Intercanvis Psychoanalysis papers» Association has been on its way for 25 years Read more…
[Automatic translation from Catalan]: Francesc Tosquelles’ legacy (1912-1994) has increasingly gained a presence in our quotidian work, and not only for his contributions in the field of mental health, since, following his training in Barcelona and during the war of 36, we must consider him Read more…
[Automatic translation from Catalan]: Closing words on Conference dedicated to Francesc Tosquelles. Paraphrasing Salvador Espriu. The time has come to close this act, but it seems nice to finish this Day, focusing on three issues that may well be the common denominator of the legacy Read more…
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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…
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…
Until August, 28 2022 at the Contemporary Culture Center in Barcelona (CCCB).
Until March 27, 2023 at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid.
Other locations where the exposure will be set Read more…