Specificities of Psychoanalytic Treatment: Birth of a Method

Editor : Yvette Dorey, Editor : Serge Frisch, Editor : Leopoldo Bleger

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

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