Relational psychoanalysis

Kuchuck, Steven

doi:10.4324/9780367809560-10

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“…Although Politzerian research was translated into English in the 1990s, it does not seem to have attracted the attention of psychoanalysts. Even so, several American authors have reached, independently, the same conclusions as this philosopher, resulting in the so-called relational psychoanalytic revolution led by Mitchell (1988), who understood that the suppression of the concept of drive and, consequently, of metapsychology was necessary (Kuchuck, 2021). Thus, we can affirm that the concrete psychoanalytic psychology that we, as Latin Americans, have directly inherited from Bleger (1963Bleger ( /2007 can now be included among the approaches to contemporary relational psychoanalysis, as Liberman (2014) correctly states.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 95%

“The one who takes care is the mother”: Legal mediators’ child care imaginary

Fonseca-Inacarato,

Gallo-Belluzzo,

Aiello-Vaisberg

2023

Estud. psicol. (Campinas)

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Objective Investigate child care collective imaginaries, a focus justified by the social and family transformations resulting from the massive insertion of women into the labor market. Method The study is organized methodologically from the perspective of concrete psychoanalytic psychology, articulating the use of the psychoanalytic method with relational theorizations. The research involves collective psychological interviews, in which 12 judicial mediators were interviewed through the Thematic Drawing and Story Procedure. Results The psychoanalytical consideration of the material allowed the interpretative production of four affective–emotional meaning fields. Conclusion The general picture indicates that a conservative imaginary prevails in which the best child care is provided by the biological mother in the contexts of both the nuclear family and the matrifocal family while also maintaining a friendly bond with the father.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 95%

“The one who takes care is the mother”: Legal mediators’ child care imaginary

Fonseca-Inacarato,

Gallo-Belluzzo,

Aiello-Vaisberg

2023

Estud. psicol. (Campinas)

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“…As such, like many therapeutic frameworks (24,36,96), this model is fundamentally relational: it conceptualizes the therapeutic process as occurring in the relational field created by and 8 between the participant, the two therapists, and the MDMA, and it considers how outside relationships (historical, familial, communal, social) influence the participant's experience of trauma and recovery in an ongoing way.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The concept of the relational (or intersubjective) field is well articulated in the interpersonal/relational 8 psychoanalytic tradition (36,97), some aspects of which are represented in MDMA-Assisted Therapy. Psychoanalyst Donald Stern (40) notes that the client (in this case, the participant) and the therapist(s) each participate in the treatment: they "are continuously and inevitably, and consciously and unconsciously, in interaction with one another.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Conceptual Framework for the Therapeutic Approach used in Phase 3 Trials of MDMA-AT for PTSD

O'Donnell,

Alpert,

Okano

et al. 2024

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Results from multiple recent studies support the use of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) in conjunction with psychotherapy (i.e., MDMA-Assisted Therapy) in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In two Phase 3 trials, MDMA-Assisted Therapy comprised a short-term, intensive psychotherapy that included three sessions directly facilitated by MDMA (referred to as “experimental sessions”), as well as a number of non-drug psychotherapy sessions. This treatment model harnessed the potential of MDMA to facilitate recall and processing of traumatic memories, and to increase learning in a social context, integrating “top-down” and “bottom-up” approaches to trauma-focused care. To date, the conceptual framework for this treatment has not been described in the scientific literature. This omission has contributed to misunderstandings about both the theoretical underpinnings of this modality and the therapeutic approach that emerges from it. This paper delineates the psychotherapeutic concepts, theories, and historical antecedents underlying the inner-directed approach to MDMA-Assisted Therapy for PTSD. Broadly speaking, this therapeutic framework centered the concept of the participant’s inner healing intelligence as the primary agent of change, with the therapeutic relationship being the core facilitative condition fostering the participant’s self-directed movement toward healing and growth. Corollaries to this holistic, self-directed, relational, and trauma-informed framework include a non-pathologizing approach to the participant’s embodied experience (including the possibility of intense emotional and somatic expression, experiences of multiplicity, suicidal ideation, and multigenerational and transpersonal experiences), as well as the therapists’ own psychodynamic, somatic, and transpersonal awareness, empathic attunement, relational skillfulness, and cultural humility. The use of MDMA in conjunction with this psychotherapy platform outperformed the use of placebo with therapy in Phase 2 and 3 trials, as measured by symptom reduction in participants with PTSD. However, within-group comparisons also identified significant symptom reduction in participants who did not receive MDMA, lending empirical support to the psychotherapy model itself. In addition to comparative efficacy trials, future research should investigate which elements of the conceptual framework and therapeutic approach underlie the clinical benefit in individuals with PTSD.

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“…Essa tendência desenvolvida na América do Sul por psicanalistas rio-platenses, entre os quais destacamos José Bleger (1963Bleger ( /2018, dedicado leitor de Politzer (1928Politzer ( /2004, rejeita criticamente a metapsicologia clássica, para então alinhar-se com as vertentes da psicanálise relacional contemporânea, que enveredaram por caminhos de valorização da intersubjetividade, como aquelas de Stolorow e Atwood (2018) ou de Mitchell (1988). Esse último autor liderou diversos autores norte-americanos no desenvolvimento da chamada revolução psicanalítica relacional, que entendeu como necessária a supressão do conceito de pulsão e, consequentemente, da metapsicologia (Kuchuck, 2021). Entretanto, a psicologia psicanalítica concreta delas diverge no que diz respeito a não perder de vista o fato de que as trocas intersubjetivas acontecem em contextos macrossociais que interferem marcadamente nas pautas relacionais.…”

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Maternidade em Situação de Cuidado Infantil Ampliado: Investigação Psicanalítica

Visintin,

Fonseca-Inacarato,

Gallo-Belluzzo

et al. 2023

Psipesq

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Esta pesquisa objetiva investigar o imaginário coletivo de mães sobre cuidados ampliados e prolongados de crianças que apresentam condições medicamente diagnosticáveis, em tempos de dupla jornada feminina, na perspectiva da psicologia psicanalítica concreta. O estudo se articulou metodologicamente por meio da abordagem de 13 relatos, disponibilizados online, de mães de crianças com Transtorno de Déficit de Atenção e Hiperatividade. A consideração do material permitiu a produção interpretativa de campos de sentido afetivo-emocional. O quadro geral indica sofrimento emocional materno em decorrência da fantasia de que a saúde e o bem-estar dos filhos se encontram inteira e exclusivamente sob sua responsabilidade.

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Relational psychoanalysis

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“The one who takes care is the mother”: Legal mediators’ child care imaginary

“The one who takes care is the mother”: Legal mediators’ child care imaginary

The Conceptual Framework for the Therapeutic Approach used in Phase 3 Trials of MDMA-AT for PTSD

Maternidade em Situação de Cuidado Infantil Ampliado: Investigação Psicanalítica

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