Conference of Psychoanalysis

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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…