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Abstract: William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn With In this work of 1943, Fairbairn sets out his conception of a theory of personality, based on object relations, from which derives the innovative vision of a psychopathology focused on the study of the relations of the ego with its internalized objects. Starting from the observation of child victims of sexual and aggressive attacks, Fairbairn describes how, through processes of incorporation, interiorization and identification, the child taks on himself the weight of the wickedness suffered, trying to restore a sense of external security with the consequent pathological presence of internalized bad objects. The author shows us how the need to deal with this internal insecurity will result in the child using costly defenses to cope with the resulting sense of persecution. Fairbairn finds confirmation of his assertions through a rereading of Freud's essay A Seventeenth Century Demonological Neurosis (1923). He therefore reviews phenomena, such as the negative therapeutic reaction, the, the repetition compulsion and the trauma itself, in the light of his innovative theoretical considerations, using the clinical and psychotherapeutic observations drawn from his experience as a medical officer with patients suffering from post-traumatic psychic disorders, in the course of the Second World War. PubDate: Thu, 15 Dec 2021 8:00:00 GMT
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Abstract: Silvia Cimino In this paper the author attempts a reinterpretation of Fairbairn’s essay by narrating some passages from a child’s analysis. Internalized bad objects exist in everyone’s psyche, but at varying degrees. Some of the fundamental factors that will define the vicissitudes of these ob-jects within the psychic apparatus are the degree of badness with which they are characterized, the nature with which the Ego identifies with such objects, and the strength of the defenses that protect the Ego from such objects. The clinical material presented demonstrates how, when the inner world is populated with "devils", perceived as bad objects released into the unconscious, they can be so terrifying that they cannot be dealt with, and that only through analysis can we hope to find ways of possible psychic elaboration. PubDate: Thu, 15 Dec 2021 8:00:00 GMT
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Abstract: Annita Gallina L’autrice commenta, in chiave storico-critica, il lavoro di William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn, scritto dopo l’esperienza avuta con pazienti affetti da disturbi psichici, conseguenti ai traumi subiti nel corso del secondo conflitto mondiale. Attraverso l’analisi del lavoro condotto da Fairbairn, con pazienti traumatizzati, viene mostrato come lo stesso giunse a formulare impor-tanti osservazioni intorno alla patologia schizoide e alla psicologia delle relazioni oggettuali. Quest’ultima innovativa concezione condusse alla stesura di un modello del funzionamento mentale organizzato intorno a strutture dinamiche operanti all’interno dell’Io/Sé. Attraverso l’attuarsi di processi di incorporazione, scissione e rimozione dell’oggetto materno, secondo la concezione di Fairbairn, si andava costituendo un Io frammentato impegnato in un proliferare di relazioni interne con oggetti compensatori. Metafora clinica che, a tutt’oggi, ben si presta a fornire un’interpretazione della patologia schizoide e che condusse alla creazione di un modello strutturale delle relazioni a fianco del preesistente modello pulsionale. La considerazione che la psicopatologia fosse un riflesso delle interferenze e difficoltà delle relazioni con gli altri e non la risultante di un conflitto inconscio tra impulsi tesi alla ricerca di piacere, apriva inoltre a nuove reinterpretazioni. Allo stesso modo la concezione di un Io, fornito di energia propria che persegue l’oggetto e non il piacere, conduceva a un modello di sviluppo che considerasse le vicissitudini della relazione materno infantile; sino a giungere alla concezione di Fairbairn, se-condo la quale, le esperienze traumatiche, avvenute durante l’infanzia, inducendo privazione esiterebbero in una condizione dove il non riuscire a sentirsi amati come persone condurreb-be a un sovrainvestimento in un mondo interno a discapito di relazioni di dipendenza, senza le quali non è possibile alcuno sviluppo PubDate: Thu, 15 Dec 2021 8:00:00 GMT
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Abstract: Simona Argentieri During the First World War, the chapter of the young psychoanalysis dedicated to the traumatic neuroses of war, with their procession of paralytic and amnesiac symptoms, takes origin in a dramatic way. At first, Freud’s followers try to interpret it on the model of hysteria, as a drive response to trauma, followed by repression. Subsequently, the greater complexity of this pathology is understood, with the compromise of the early narcissistic levels. In the cour-se of subsequent war events in the history, the contributions of other second and third genera-tion psychoanalysts will then be added. PubDate: Thu, 15 Dec 2021 8:00:00 GMT
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Abstract: Simona Argentieri, Luigi Maccioni The writing remarks on the beautiful and original book by Paolo Milone, in its undoubted literary quality and at the same time in its value as a testimony about the difficult task of taking care of madness. It is also an opportunity to return to the tangled thread that is the relationship between psychiatry and psychoanalysis. PubDate: Thu, 15 Dec 2021 8:00:00 GMT
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Abstract: Irma Brenman Pick Psychoanalysis, from its origins, has always dealt with trauma and the psychoanalytic lit-erature on the subject is very wide. The symbolic experience - both on a personal and social level - of being "!put" out, helplessly dependent and "abandoned" is pointed out, starting from Otto Rank’s concept on birth trauma. The analysis of these experiences highlights how the personal and the social are closely linked together: just as social ostracism can have deep personal effects, in the same way the experiences of being excluded, when projected, can determine a deep social effect. The "transmission of the bad treatment", in its unconscious dimension, can be conceived by mak-ing use of the concept of projective identification. Inevitably, this process entails a series of countertransference problems for the analyst. Through the supervision of two clinical cases, the central aspect linked to the projection of guilt is emphasized. Those who commit abuse can project part of their feelings of guilt into the victim. In the two cases reported, we can see how having lived the experience of being "loveless" transforms one of the two patients into a "love-less father" and the other into a "loveless patient" . Both the patients seem to have lost their ability to experience love and loss, and their analysts feel themselves "loveless" too: they fight to face their own feelings of anger and helplessness, trying to reconnect themselves with their own ability to feel "love" and compassion for their patients.. PubDate: Thu, 15 Dec 2021 8:00:00 GMT
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Abstract: Michael Parsons The Author uses the mith of Orpheus and Eurydice to reflect on the necesssity for the co-existence in the psychic life of time and timelessness, concrete perception and creative apper-ception, in the sense of Winnicott and Enid Balint. Orpheus must turn to look for Eurydice to ceck with his own eyes that she is really there, because he is not able to dream her. Eurydice, therefore, represents Orpheus’s potential vitality, where reality and imagination merge; while Eurydice’s return to the underwordl symbolises the loss of imaginative and creative vitality. So, in bionian terms, the analysts need to dream their patients to help their patients to dream themselves. PubDate: Thu, 15 Dec 2021 8:00:00 GMT
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Abstract: A cura della Redazione PubDate: Thu, 15 Dec 2021 8:00:00 GMT
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