Category: Intercanvis issue 49

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Have been published paper magazine issue 49. You will find articles from Isabel Baixeras, Javier Peteiro, Marisa Ara, Pere Llovet, Jaume Patuel, Joan Pijuan, Antonio Pombo, Teresa Sunyé, Joana Hernández Read more…
Presentation of article «Science and clinical» by Javier Peteiro Cartelle
[Automatic translation from Spanish]: Javier Peteiro Cartelle (A Coruña, 1953) has a Bachelor of Medicine from the University of Santiago de Compostela in 1975 with a distinction and has a PhD in Medicine cum laude from the same university in 1987. Specialist in Clinical Analysis Read more…

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…
Presentation of article «Tosquelles, going and return» by Isabel Baixeras Delclòs
[Automatic translation from Catalan]: Isabel Baixeras Delclòs, a law graduate, has worked as an administrative lawyer and as a ombudswoman. She also works, on a voluntary basis, within the sections and commissions of the Reus Reading Center. Isabel investigates the leading figure Francesc Tosquelles i 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…

Carmen Lafuente Balle – In memoriam
[Automatic translation from Spanish]: On 31 October, at the age of 69, doctor Carmen Lafuente Balle left us, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst of recognized prestige, not only in Spain but also in Latin America and France. Doctor Lafuente accumulated an extensive curriculum in both mental Read more…

Graciela Traba – In memoriam
[Automatic translation from Catalan]: The COPC Women’s Health Working Group want to remember her career. Graciela Traba entered the world of women’s health and was a driving force behind many projects and research. Her professional and personal strength and generosity made our group an interdisciplinary Read more…

Néstor A. Braunstein – In memoriam
[Automatic translation from Catalan]: As a Catalan psychoanalytic journal, we have received with great sadness the news of the death of our colleague Néstor A. Braunstein, one of the most important figures in Latin American psychoanalysis of the last 50 years. As secretary I have Read more…

Guillem Salvador Beltrán – In Memoriam
[Automatic translation from Catalan]: Guillem Salvador left us on 3 June. He was a doctor, psychiatrist and psychotherapist for adults, couple, and family. He was also a professor at the University of Barcelona at the School of Social Work, supervisor and trainer of professionals and Read more…