Ferenczi: His position in the realm of psychiatry
TL;DR: The Multifamily Psychoanalysis (MP) as discussed by the authors was created by the author to counteract a current psychiatric trend aimed at eliminating the importance of subjectivity and to rescue the thinking of Ferenczi.
Abstract: This paper is aimed at placing the importance of Ferenczi's thinking in the wide field of psychiatry where Ferenczi has not been given any niche whatsoever. The author is in a position to approach topics that are fundamental for the work of both psychiatry and psychoanalysis. The Multifamily Psychoanalysis (MP), created by the author, not only allows professionals to counteract a current psychiatric trend aimed at eliminating the importance of subjectivity but MP also contributes to rescuing the thinking of Ferenczi, and to a better understanding of the Freud‐Ferenczi controversy. It is the author's contention that Ferenczi embodies the very spirit of pioneers: no difficulties, however insurmountable, could ever stop him. He paved the way for further psychiatric research work, and his clinical contribution extended the realm of metapsychology.
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TL;DR: In this interview with García Badaracco, Francesca Viola Borgogno introduces the reader to this distinguished figure, as well as to some of his most original theoretical and clinical concepts, such as “the maddening object”, ‘the pathological and pathogenic interdependence’, “ the healthy virtuality” and so on.
Abstract: Jorge Garcia Badaracco's pioneering work is well-known in his native Argentina, but not so much elsewhere. Since he was appointed as Director of a service in the Borda Buenos Aires Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital in 1959, Garcia Badaracco started to make use of all available resources to overcome the many problems that the analysis of "difficult patients" (often psychotic) entails. In later years, he developed his ground-breaking "multifamily groups", that is, therapeutic groups that included patients, their relatives, nurses, members of the staff, and that offered the possibility to work simultaneously, in one single therapeutic intervention, on the individual, familiar, and social dimension of the mind. In this interview with Garcia Badaracco, Francesca Viola Borgogno introduces the reader to this distinguished figure, as well as to some of his most original theoretical and clinical concepts, such as "the maddening object", "the pathological and pathogenic interdependence", "the healthy virtuality", and so on.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe psychotizing bonds in terms of identification processes, the way they function in the constitution of the psychic apparatus and their relation to the deficient self.
Abstract: This paper describes 'psychotizing bonds' in terms of identification processes, the way they function in the constitution of the psychic apparatus and their relation to the deficient self. The author relates the pathogenic potentiality of the psychotic nuclei with the tendency of psychotic disorganization to be irreversible. Psychotic regression is considered in terms of pathogenic identification with forms of ego and superego functioning that belong to the primitive parental objects of infancy. Whereas normogenic identifications structure the subject's own ego resources, the pathogenic identifications which appear in the psychotic transference, form bonds that stifle spontaneity and force the self to be transformed into the other. These ideas lead thus to the concept of the 'maddening object'. Finally, the pathogenic identifications in the psychoanalytic process are examined. The patient should be 'rescued' from these bonds linking the self with the maddening objects. The analyst must hold the conviction that a virtual and potential subject exists in the analysand, in spite of his psychotic condition. The deficient self which becomes manifest during the moments of dis-identification must be assisted.
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