Specificities of Psychoanalytic Treatment: Birth of a Method

Book Details
- Publisher : Karnac Books
- Published : 2025
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 300
- Category :
Forthcoming - Category 2 :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 98108
- ISBN 13 : 9781800133785
- ISBN 10 : 1800133782
Table of Contents
About the editors and contributors
Foreword
Cláudio Laks Eizirik
Introduction
Part I - Presentation of the “specificity” method – psychoanalysts at work
1. The working party on the “specificity of psychoanalytic treatment today”
Serge Frisch and Leopoldo Bleger
2. The method within its historical context
Leopoldo Bleger and Serge Frisch
3. Construction of the dispositif
Serge Frisch and Leopoldo Bleger
4. Presentation of a clinical group and its discussion in the Paris Group, “The Red Blanket”
Yvette Dorey
5. Gourmet psychoanalysis, or attempting to describe the work of a research group
Erika Kittler
Part II - Clinical insights – inter-analytic exchanges
6. Moderating a group of analysts listening to clinical material
Catherine Desvignes
7. Specificity of the method from the presenter’s perspective
Martine Sandor-Buthaud
8. The silent support of the tripod – intersecting views: From the role of the rapporteur to the function of the observer
Marie-France Dispaux-Ducloux and Lila Hoïjman
9. The crossing: A psychoanalytic journey into the heart of a group setting
Fabienne Fillion
10. About candidate group work
Ronnie Shaw
Part III - Theoretical insights – Towards a new field of investigation
11. Free association and free discourse
Luc Michel
12. Unconscious communication in inter-analytic work
Diana Messina Pizzuti
13. What do specificity groups teach us about psychoanalytic specificity?
Andrea Scardovi
14. The clinical narrative in the working party on specificity
Leopoldo Bleger
15. The group as infant in front of the primal: Grasping, pointing, free-associating in specificity groups practice
Andrea Scardovi
16. Outcomes and results
Leopoldo Bleger and Serge Frisch
Postscript
Évelyne Sechaud