Dramatology in life, disorder, and psychoanalytic therapy: A further contribution to interpersonal psychoanalysis

Lothane, Zvi

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“…Emotions of love as agape, caritas, philia: dreams and deeds of love are completed by dramatology [1,44,45]. Narratology tells about deeds done in the past, dramatology deals with dramatic happenings: encounters, events and emotions happening in the present, experienced and/or witnessed by onlookers.…”

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“…The illustrative cases were Anna O. 's paralyses [20] and Dora's aphonia and coughing spells [36,44]. Already in 1893 Freud "asserted that the lesion in hysterical paralyses must be completely independent of the anatomy of the nervous system, since in its paralyses and other manifestations hysteria behaves as though anatomy did not exist or as though it had no knowledge of it" [48, p. 169] (italics Freud's).…”

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THE PRIMACY OF EMOTIONS: a continuation of dramatology

Lothane¹

2015

Arch Psych Psych

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Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point; on le sait en mille choses. (Pascal) Summary:Psychiatry means healing the psyche or soul that belongs to an individual human being, that is, a person, with a body and a capacity for acting, feeling, emoting and speaking, perceived by the five senses or imagined, seen figuratively in the mind's eye, in images of dreams and daydreams. Since the total person appears before us with all the characteristics, an all-in-one package, I ask, how is it that psychiatry has lost its psyche? Dramatology approaches human encounters, events, and scenes as dramatic enactments of characters in conflict and crisis. It comprises two forms: dramatisation in thought and emotion that involves images and scenes lived in memories, dreams, daydreams, fantasy scenarios, and dramatisation in act. This paper is a continuation of my earlier publication in this journal. emotions / dramatology / freud

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THE PRIMACY OF EMOTIONS: a continuation of dramatology

Lothane¹

2015

Arch Psych Psych

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“…The failure of empirical research in this area makes it necessary to couple that sort of investigation with clinical research. 7 E.g Verissimo, 2000;Barros et al, 2005;D'Abreu, 2006;Rocha, 2009;Marchon, 2006Marchon, , 2009Ribeiro, 2007;Gus, 2007;Paz, 2007b;Churcher, 2008;Ivey, 2008;Wieland, 2008;Borensztejn, 2009;Lothane, 2009;Luz, 2009;Galipeau, 2009;Schreck, 2010;Gheller, 2010;Brown, 2010..…”

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What happens before and after acute enactments? An exercise in clinical validation and the broadening of hypotheses

Cassorla¹

2012

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis

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This paper seeks to validate clinical facts and theoretical hypotheses that have been discussed before and that address configurations involving chronic and acute enactments. Its validation process compares clinical material from psychoanalytic work in different psychoanalytic cultures - work from South America-Uruguay (Yardino), Europe-Spain (Sapisochin), South Africa (Ivey), Europe-UK (Bateman). It documents clinical facts described in four articles and confirms that during chronic enactments the analytic dyad gets caught up in a dual relationship that veils and congeals the triangular situation because acknowledging it would be traumatic. The lack of triangular space impedes the formation of symbols as well as dreaming and creates non-dreams-for-two. During chronic enactments analysts use their implicit alpha-function to assemble traumatic areas. These areas emerge as a mix of discharges and non-dreams that are dreamed through acute enactments. Acute enactments occur when chronic enactments dissolve and patients experience an abrupt contact with reality. The attenuated trauma is then dreamed alive. The linking of new symbols develops a network of symbolic thought and creates dreams-for-two and broadens the patient's mental universe. The validation process has deepened our vision concerning clinical facts, especially in relation to: (1) the wavering between acute and chronic enactments, (2) analysts' inhibitions and feelings of guilt, and (3) the influence of analysts' personalities on the configurations they describe. These theoretical hypotheses have been confirmed and broadened not only in relation to the vicissitudes of dream work in traumatic areas, but also in relation to defenses such as thin or thick skin, and in relation to listening in countertransferential detours.

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“…that it is the juxtaposition of an increasingly well-defined therapeutic alliance with inevitable transference enactments that helps clarify problematic ideas and feelings and provides a here-and-now situation in which the patient and therapist can together negotiate how to counteract them with more adaptive (because realistic) ones. (p. 518) A solution for the difficulties in the just cited dichotomy is provided by dramatology (Lothane, 2009) and interpersonal drama therapy (IDT) (Lothane, 2011). Interactions and enactments are consciously experienced and directly observed, unconscious transferences are discovered through dynamic and psychoanalytic exploration.…”

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“…An essential component in dramas in real life and on stage, confrontation thus emerges as a basic therapeutic technique. The issue here is one of a therapeutic philosophy, strategy and tactic which I named dramatology (Lothane, 2009(Lothane, , 2010b(Lothane, , 2010c(Lothane, , 2011, the application of the dramatic concept to life, disorder, and therapy. This approach is valid in the treatment of both character disorders and psychotic disorders.…”

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The Partnership of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry in the Treatment of Psychosis and Borderline States: Its Evolution in North America

Lothane¹

2011

The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynam

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The history of psychiatry is about two hundred years old and that of psychoanalysis more than a hundred, with an important anniversary of the latter in 2011. Freud renewed and humanized psychiatry by enriching its static descriptive method with the new dynamic and interpretive discoveries of psychoanalysis. Freud's innovations, while developed in Europe, were integrated into psychiatry briefly by the Swiss School but mainly in the United States. After many years of fruitful collaboration psychiatry and psychoanalysis seemed to part company in the U.S. in the last few decades. However, the tradition of combining psychiatric care with dynamic principles is still considered valid in the treatment of psychoses and severe personality disorders.

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Dramatology in life, disorder, and psychoanalytic therapy: A further contribution to interpersonal psychoanalysis

Cited by 35 publications

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THE PRIMACY OF EMOTIONS: a continuation of dramatology

THE PRIMACY OF EMOTIONS: a continuation of dramatology

What happens before and after acute enactments? An exercise in clinical validation and the broadening of hypotheses

The Partnership of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry in the Treatment of Psychosis and Borderline States: Its Evolution in North America

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