Papers de psicoanàlisi - Papeles de psicoanálisis
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 Catalan]: 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…
On 10 June 2023, we celebrated the Conference of Psychoanalysis Intercanvis / Papers of Psychoanalysis, dedicated to the psychiatry and psychoanalysis leading figure Francesc Tosquelles Llauradó.
We leave you a brief tour of the ceremony in images. Read more…
In preparation for a public event such as the Psychoanalysis Conference on June 10th, many people have taken part and we are very grateful for their cooperation. Today, we will be looking at the work of the professionals who have worked on the graphic part Read more…
A portrait of the lecturers, when they are such popular and distinguished professionals, and when the video and presentations published in the monograph included in the issue magazine number 50 detail so many personal anecdotes and accounts of knowledge and interaction with the honoured Dr. Read more…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
«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…
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…
In recent decades, diverse sexual identity has challenged the prevailing binarism. The legal, medical and educational changes are so important that they force rethinking and reflecting on both the Society and the theoretical psychoanalytic conceptions. The author makes clear the constant trickle that these new Read more…
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…
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…
Several risks lie in wait for teenage girls who use social networks regularly, including damage to their emotional stability and self-esteem precisely when they are going through a vital stage in their lives when they are most vulnerable. The psychic processes involved in the consolidation Read more…
We live in three worlds: psychic, online and social, between which new forms of subjectivity, relationships and balances between human destructiveness and creativity are produced. We take a look at the evolution of digitalisation and the use of technologies over the last 50 years and Read more…
On past 1 April took place the presentation of the book Estudios de metapsicología. La vigencia de un pensamiento, authored by our colleague Luis Sales, psychoanalyst and member of Gradiva, Associació d’Estudis Psicoanalítics, and former subscriber and collaborator of Intercanvis. This article includes the interventions Read more…
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 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…
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 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…
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…
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 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…
The reader of Erich Fromm’s works in Spanish comes across several different problems concerning translations, editions and location of texts. In order to avoid the confusion and palliate these defaults, we present a chronological ordination of his works as well as their precise location. In Read more…
The birth and evolution of pediatric dentistry is described. The clinical relevance of psychoanalytic theory, determining the importance of interdisciplinary work for the treatment of children in the dental clinic, is underlined. In early childhood development, there is an important evolutionary triad consisting of the Read more…
Adolescence is a normal growth stage that entails a physical and psychic metamorphosis enduring loses and changes. It also means re-elaborating and re-signifying what hasn’t been solved during childhood. For all that, it is even harder to endure it for young adopted teens who have Read more…
Dossier: Covid-19? The pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 has caused and is still causing a health, economic, social and cultural crisis. Previously, a general optimism had been installed that was based on a premise: humanity has defeated bacteria and viruses. However, the arrival of the coronavirus Read more…
Dossier: Covid-19? Re-establishing links: «crossing the familiar history and the work of the subjectivity. Approach and support in front of the death of their relatives» Presentation of the work proposed to do with families of residents with intellectual disability and mental health disorders in a Read more…
Dossier: Covid-19? Face masks as well as helping us to keep social distance, represent our trench on this war against Covid 19. However, on this apparent uniformity, under the face mask we can find many subjective differences, including the economic ones. Its compulsive use, and Read more…
Dossier: Covid-19? The text aims to show how over the years the human being is in search of happiness. In his book Civilization and Its Discontents, Freud also reflects about it by highlighting the importance of our subjectivity. As a result of the pandemic that Read more…
For a few months, it may seem that life (our life, our lifestyle, that of each) would have stopped, but that’s not true at all, life never stops, public acts will stop, some actions we were used to and that we can’t continue to do, [Text in Catalan] Read more…
The situation that we have lived through and are still living as a result of the pandemic caused by COVID-19, has been a fact of which we still cannot assess the physical, psychological, economic, social, historical and, in general, vital consequences that will have in our lives. [Text in Spanish] Read more…
I start from Lévi-Strauss’ (1956) theoretical principle that universal prohibition of incest incites the constitution of the exogamous family (even in the current modalities), as well as the process and resolution of the Oedipus complex. My reflection revolves around the complexities of libido in relation Read more…
The text is a theoretical journey that shows the fine line that separates the concept of beauty with its more opposite face, which is sinister. Following the works of the Marquis of Sade, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan and the philosopher Eugeni Trias, I show how Read more…
Aggression against the other is the testimony of the failure of the word and the nullification of all responses. Violence breaks out when the other is denied and is not respected in its diversity. The possibility of violence is present in human beings and runs Read more…
The psychoanalytic clinic with women subjected to abuse and sexist violence raises many questions, difficulties and uncertainties. In this article we gather some of the most frequently asked questions about the psychological characteristics of women who endure for many years relationships that entail violence and Read more…
Is human suffering only conceivable from the state of a viscera? Mind and brain are the same? Is human being the competence of science? Can we reduce the specificity of an existential pain to pure neurological data or to the genetic endowment? Psychoanalysis must pronounce Read more…
The high number of suicides within the “trans” group before and after the operations of “gender reassignment” are reason to review, from psychoanalysis, the relevance of this contemporary phenomenon. What reading can we make of this very high suicide rate that is usually omitted to Read more…
We will try to expose a “game” or dialogue with the science of the complex at times when “light” thought seems dominant. It is not to considerer psychoanalysis as a science, but offer the possibility of thinking the psychoanalytic knowledge as a mode of understanding Read more…
Summary of the presentation at the XVIII “Mental Health Conference in Nou Barris”. Conferences to which we were invited to present the work carried out in a Unit of Disability and Mental Health at the Parc Sanitari de Sant Joan de Déu in Sant Boi. Read more…
We are questioning the relationship between political discourse and psychoanalytic discourse, questioning the idea of a neutral psychoanalysis, apolitical —exemplified with an investigation— which leads to ask whether a psychoanalyst and his doing can be left out of what happens beyond their consultation. And whether Read more…
This article is a sample of the work carried out over the years in the family support program that has the Esquitx Association in the neighborhood “Casc Antic” of Barcelona. First, we contextualize the entity, then we will go through the evolution that we have Read more…
Psychosomatics has always been an enigma for the clinic and for medicine. In this article, I take a tour through the different psychotherapeutic currents and the neurobiological research sciences, which, as they advance, support the Freudian theory of the unconscious. Through two clinical cases, I Read more…
The following work is a tribute to the generosity, lucidity, inexhaustible work and the immense lesson that S. has given to me. It seeks to testify the periplus and the inventions that will be built by a subject with autism during the treatment. An exercise Read more…
The direction of the cure in the psychoanalytic treatment implies ethical components that are related not only to enable the desire of the patients to emerge, parallel to the construction of their phantom, in cases where it is possible and convenient, of course, but also Read more…
The work describes psychological aspects of the demand for procreation in an Assisted Reproduction Unit in the framework of public assistance. It highlights the importance of the articulation of mourning due to the loss of biological fertility with the parental functions and the confrontation of Read more…
[Text in Spanish]: Las dificultades cotidianas de una pareja de una histérica y un obsesivo frente al escaparate de una tienda revelan algunas verdades fundamentales de los atolladeros del deseo, la demanda, la castración y la falta en el campo de las neurosis. Manuel Baldiz Read more…
In this article, we firstly intend to summarize the meaning of adolescente the basic tendencies of peer grouping and the importance of setting bounderies. Secondly, we argue that like in any process of change, adolescents face the increasing tension of ceasing to be a child. Read more…
This article discusses the premise that the clinical approach to understanding the mindset of those perpetrators who commit acts of domestic/sexist violence cannot be successful if it relies on only social, cultural, historical and political factors. Instead, the clinical approach —and proper assessment— also requires Read more…
First-world societies are subject to a growing aging process. This raises problems with regard to the sustainability of the pension system and, at the same time, generates problems of poor or inadequate treatment of elderly people’s needs. This article shows the results of a study Read more…
This article follows up and expands upon matters discussed at the 18th edition of the Conference for Families Affected by Mental Health Problems in Nou Barris (Barcelona). The title is «Drug Use amongst Teenagers». This is part of general program of activities entitled, «The Prevention Read more…
This text concerns to an explanation in the XVII Mental Health Working day in Nou Barris. I opted for keep the original contents, addressed to a diverse public, formed by associated familiars of mental patients and health professionals, reflecting the psychic development theory from psychoanalysis, Read more…
Reflections about the experience in a psychotherapeutic group dynamic, developed in an adult’s psychiatric hospitalization unit in the public health care system. This study has been carried out based on the group psychotherapeutic experience carried out in the Adult Psychiatric Income Unit of Vega Baja Read more…
This paper introduces the Platform for Defens of Public Mental Health in Catalonia —an assembly movement of interdisciplinary professionals participating in a personal basis, created to face currrent mental health crucial problems— and its goals, framed in a clinic, ethical, and political commitment. Keywords defense Read more…
I have been interested in the issue of the effects of noise on emotional and physical health for some time now. At first glance it may seem a simple subject, as we do not pay attention. In this article I have tried to convey its Read more…
This article presents a figurative proposal of the psychic organization focusing its attention on the capacities of assimilation of the external by the singularity of the child in its exchange with the primary objects. It also establishes conjectures in relation to physicochemistry referring to the Read more…
The work of mourning in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. In this paper we present some reflections on the work of mourning in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. In preterm birth, the mother often experiences feelings of loss in front of the lack of an Read more…
Based on the group work experience with senior people in the “Emotional Care Program for the Elderly”, a reflection is conducted on the psychoanalytic oriented psychotherapy groups towards their completion, the farewells, the losses and the way they are faced throughout life. Saying goodbye to Read more…
I’d like to approach the refugees issue as a political and social problem that engages us all objectively and subjectively. The cruelty and harshness of the experiences of the refugee claimants implies such high level of suffering that is likely to break their psychological and Read more…
In the following lines, the author tries to share what has been experienced before those patients who put us to the limit in our activity as therapists. It is more an attempt to share what as a free association awakens in the author after facing Read more…
This second part is, again, a nomadic text, under this perspective that traverses knowledge about the migrations, exiles and the diverse human movements. While the previous article was the celebration of the difference in recognition of the singularity of each individual product of their identifications, Read more…
As the purpose of traumatic symptom is to find someone to talk to, this article is an attempt to articulate a written answer to the question: which is the attitude psychoanalyst must adopt in cases of mourning for social trauma? Tries to develop cognition traumatic Read more…
The current economic crisis, which began in 2008, has been produced from the excesses of the neoliberal system, the latest version of capitalism. This is based on the deregulation, privatization and dismantling of the welfare state, born after the Second World War. The Friedmanian claim Read more…
This work is a compilation of three articles published in the Journal of Health: Care in mental health: more patients and fewer resources. Children are an example of family and social insecurity. Mental health professionals: invisible and overloaded. These themes are developed more widely to Read more…
In the second part of the article (the first part was published in the previous issue of this publication), the author completes his exposition on free association and subsequently goes on to broach the subject of free floating attention, describing the metapsychological foundations of its Read more…
In May 2015 the Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) handling Protocol for children and youth, was published in the Catalan Health System. We, as professionals of different disciplines attending children and youth suffering from the symptomatology described for this disorder, are aware of the Read more…
This article is the first part of an extensive and rigorous reflection regarding identity, diversity, migration and its effects on the mental health of people and their communities. Even though identity is a core theme of psychoanalytical theory, the approach here covers this concept across-the-board Read more…
Based on the experience with group work with older people within the program of emotional support in old age, we do a reflection of what happens in psychoanalytic treatment groups targeted around the completion of the groups, the farewells and losses and how to face Read more…
Postmodern society questions and dissolves values; consequently, persons who until then have lived in the midst of illusions symbolized by religion, the community and stability now find themselves in a different world. There has come about a fading of comforting gods and fictions that previously Read more…
Salvatore (Toto) is the main character of the film Nuovo Cinema Paradiso. He’s a famous director in Rome and he knows the roots in the childhood of his profession. But the cercle doesn’t close until the death of Alfredo, his paternal referent in Sicilia. What Read more…
This paper consists of a critical revision and detailed account of Freudian references above all, although other authors are also taken into account, concerning the use of the rule of free association in the analyzing and of free-floating attention in the analyst, both essential components Read more…
In this article I explore the adventure of writing poetry: the genesis of the word, what can lead the poet to write, what literary influences stimulate him and the specific tools which are required in the creative process of the poetic language. My reflections come Read more…
The author discusses various aspects of institutional violence, placing the emphasis on the so-called «necessary violence» (Piera Aulagnier), one that is exercised not wanting to cause harm but for the sake of the other. She reflects briefly on the concepts of violence and aggression, their Read more…
In this paper you will find a singular proposal of how the category of «idea» or «presentation», from semiotics, can also be understood from psychoanalysis, and how, in this crossover, it can raise questions as essential as those that make the being. It is therefore Read more…
One of the main problems of today’s society, driven by strictly mercantile standards, is the medicalization of different aspects of life. The aim of this dissertation is trying to think about how it is possible that this phenomenon has such power nowadays, despite all the Read more…
Our aim is to report the elderly people’s psychoanalytic psychotherapy, a pilot project initiated and coordinated by Dr. Pere Folch i Mateu (in memoriam) in September 2010 in Barcelona by a group of mental health professionals, clinical psychologists, psychotherapists with psychoanalytic training and group psychotherapy. Read more…
The transfer and the setting have a central place in the clinical work and they cause concerns and discussions starting from the unstable and adverse circumstances in which we often develop our task. I propose changing the highlight to consider the setting not like a Read more…
The child psychoanalyst is faced with a framework of counter-transference; with the emergence of the archaic within the child and with the inclusion of the parents in the therapy process. For the therapist this raises a confrontation between their own archaic and unconscious aspects of Read more…
EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) is a psychotherapeutic approach that consists of eight phases with a set of specific procedures focused on the associative spontaneous processing of the traumatic memories and with a component of bilateral stimulation (ocular, auditory and tactile movements). The theoretical Read more…
The extension of the limits of analyzability, and the changes which today’s culture has printed on the forms of subjectivity, have promoted a large clinical and theoretical richness. Winnicott’s contributions to Freudian thinking, the study of early trauma, and the failures in the symbolic world Read more…
This paper intends to bring us close to the didactical language, clearly adaptated to the audience — mostly represented by families and mentally ill people. The paper tries to make us understand what is the meaning of the adolescence nowadays, what kind of psychical aspects Read more…
Taking as starting point Freud’s text, Delirium and dreams in W. Jensen’s «Gradiva», as well as other representative works on the topic, this essay surveys some of the most significant understandings about dreams and deliria in the history of psychoanalysis. The survey will be complemented Read more…
This study concerns the life of Richard Wagner. Pychoanalytical concepts are employed to delve into the workings of the great composer’s mind. Various theories are put forward related to the underlying and unconscious dynamic, which influenced one of the world’s best-loved composers. The study is Read more…
The concept of primal repression (Urverdrängung), which this year is celebrating its 100th anniversary, was one of the most diffused and less developed along Freud’s work, especially from the clinical point of view. In this article, after reviewing those Freudian texts that deal with the Read more…
In the present text, a central hypothesis is outlined: the psychosomatic condition corresponds to a manifestation of the true self; concept developed by Winnicott. For this task I propose as support the texts of F. Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885) and Beyond Good and Evil Read more…
Silvia Tubert, a psychoanalyst and a writer, was a committed intellectual who questioned with an acute critical sense the psychoanalysis of her time. She is the author of several articles and books that deal with childhood, adolescence, assisted reproduction and female subjectivity. Its innovative thinking Read more…
The work of the writer Ana María Matute is especially relevant for its high literary quality and the attention paid to the emotional world in childhood. Keywords: writing, sublimation, vitality. Gemma Cánovas Sau leave a comment Download full text (text in Spanish)
After the commemoration in 2005 of the 400 years of the issue of the first part of The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha —organized in Martorell (Barcelona) within the seminar about Psychoanalysis and Current affairs that I coordinated— and with the desire to Read more…