STUDY CENTER- POLO 1
CLINICAL WORK GROUPS
Community social work with couples and families
Responsible: Patricia Alcalde (Lima, Peru)
Participants: Father Mayor; ME Arias, E. Bernardini; Lila Grandal
It is a free and voluntary space aimed at vulnerable populations in Peru. A meeting takes place based on solidarity, bond and affection, through 3 devices supported by 25 therapists: Shelter in Abancay (mountains of Peru). San Columbano School in the San Martín de Porras district in Lima, Listening line.
Psicoanálisis vincular by Janine Puget et Isidoro Berenstein (2023)
Coordinator: Rocío Cabanzo (Bogota, Colombia)
Members: Patricia Alcalde, María Soledad Dawson, Ruth Levisky, Dina Oren, Tatiana Páez, Felisa Perry, Manuela Porto, Patricia Segurado
The linking psychoanalytic perspective, created by Janine Puget and Isidoro Berenstein, broadens the vision, opens the field of the possible, gives rise to the radically new. Thought that arises from logics other than those of modernity and proposes other categories that are different and supplementary to the classic ones: such as the binding force of “between two or more”, the alter and the alien, social subjectivity, discontinuities of time and space, the presentation and effects of presence, becoming other with others, interference, chance, indetermination, uncertainty, the radically new, among others.
The objective of this Clinical Theoretical Reflection Group is the study and deepening of this thinking and joint production.
In the bimonthly meetings, in 2023 and 2024, the members belonging to 6 countries, located on three continents, have carried out fruitful presentations and exchanges. The theoretical-clinical topics worked on have been: Paradigm change that implies linking and its theoretical-clinical implications , Community interventions, Decolonization of the unconscious, Linking complex, Radical novelty.
In addition, work on social Subjectivity has been present, thought of as a result of the effects and affectations produced in belonging to and experiencing social-political-cultural-environmental-institutional spaces, both local, national and global.
Our meetings accommodate the expression of these affectations in the members of the Group, in the face of current, impactful, perplexing and impotent situations. Linking proposes inhabiting those situations : thinking and doing in the present, with and among others, in the future, in fluidity. It is a job to be carried out as subjects, to be able to assume our clinical interventions.
Trays: new configurations of couple bonding - Changing ways of doing being a couple (2023)
Responsible: Roberta Gorischnik (Entre Rios, Argentina)
Participants: Melina Julia Nadal Zalazar; María Soledad Campo Caracoche; Paula Gimena Falcone Andrea Maria Razzetti; Maria Gisela Saint Paul
The magma of social imaginary meanings regulates discourses, practices, desires and feelings, instituting the subjectivities belonging to a society at a given moment. The changes and transformations that the new realities pose to us in the ways of being, being and bonding in this 21st century, affect the couple as a social institution in continuous movement and transformation.
Psychoanalysis and particularly, the link perspective in psychoanalysis provides us with tools to rethink theories and reformulate practices, making experience in our clinic.
Multi-Family Therapy (2019-2023)
Responsible: Norberto Mascaró (Bilbao, Spain)
Participants: Säida Sid, Souad Ben Hamed and Sophie Elliot; (Portugal) Paula Godinho, Carina Brito da Mana and Inés Pinto; (Russia) (Svletana Hiers and Olga Papsueva) Tamara Gerganlova, Tatiana Aneck, Alexandra Skack, Julia Bozhenko and a translator from Spanish to Russian; (Spain); Bilbao, Norberto Mascaró and Claudio Maruottolo.
In 2019 we started an online group on the study and reflection of multifamily groups (GMF). This group was made up of a dozen professionals (psychologists and psychiatrists) from different countries (Spain, Portugal, France and Russia), with practices in various public and private institutions. Most without experience in this type of activity.
Meetings are bimonthly and last two hours. The work is based on the conceptualizations of J. García Badaracco who began with this therapeutic device in the scope of a psychiatric hospital in the city of Buenos Aires in 1960. The work in this modality tries to study its specificity and differentiate it from other therapeutic spaces. (group therapy, family therapy, bonding therapy, etc.)
In these 4 years of existence we address theoretical and clinical aspects of the activity and continue in this line of work.
Following the participation of our Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Couples, Family and Multifamily Group (APyF), in a research sponsored by the European Union on “Multifamily Groups in Mental Health”, jointly with Italy, Portugal and Belgium. We have developed 4 products:
- A GUIDE on GMF, regarding its distribution and characteristics of these groups in the 4 countries. Where we observe a manifest predominance of the García Badaracco model.
- A VADEMÉCUM on the basic concepts of Multifamily Psychoanalysis (theoretical, technical and curative).
- The SKILLS that a group type driver must have.
- A TRAINING PROGRAM with three levels: facilitator, driver and expert driver.
It is also complemented with an international bibliography on this activity.
Last year the Vademecum was distributed and this year we worked on it and the clinical material, as a supervision, that is being presented.
The group is open to anyone who wants to join. We think we can reach 20 participants.
COVID Pandemic (2020-2024)
Responsible: Irma Morosini (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Participants: Bárbara Bianchini (Italy) – Rocío Cabanzo (Colombia) – Susana Casaurang (Argentina) – Graciela Consoli (Argentina) – MaríaGrazia Giachin (Italy) – Fabrizia Giusti (Italy) – Ondina Greco (Italy) – Donatella Lisciotto (Italy) – Manuel Liss (Argentina) – Giuliana Marin (Italy) – Fiorenza Milano (Italy) – Tatiana Páez Sanguinetti (Peru) – María Manuela Porto (Portugal) – Olga Ruiz Correa (Brazil) (+).
The group has been working for 4 years and in 2023 it begins its fifth year. It is currently made up of 15 members, it has grown this year from 11 members to 15.
We want to investigate through surveys, interviews, session material, conversations, data studies, statistics and our own personal and professional experiences how this process affected us and still affects us. With a Reflection Group system we will be able to ask ourselves about the various aspects that this phenomenon presented and presents in the Clinic, trying to explore issues that have not been sufficiently taken into account in terms of mental health in public policies. The main idea is to be able to contribute our knowledge and provide some help to health services in the form of advice and writings, reviewing what happened and is happening to families, couples and the community in general in the various countries of the world and how better prepared to face other scourges of this class.
During the first meeting of the year, which took place last Thursday, March 30, the new members were received, a few words of remembrance for Eduardo Grinspon who died in December 2022 were shared as a farewell, organizational issues were worked on and the experience was heard. clinic regarding the Covid pandemic by Donatella Lisciotto, with exchange of ideas between everyone.
We held three meetings during the year with excellent participation from its members (Maríagrazia Giachin – Donatella Lisciotto – Barbara Bianchini – Fabrizia Giusti – Graciela Consoli – Manuel Liss – Rocío Cabanzo – Ondina Greco – Giuliana Marin – Susana Casaurang – Fiorenza Milano – Manuela Porto – Tatiana Páez Sanguinetti and Irma Morosini).
The dynamic during the year was to invite colleagues, both members of the group and guests, to speak about their experiences and reflections during the pandemic process.
At the first meeting Dr Donatella Lisciotto spoke, at the next one Dr Alejandro Klein spoke and at the last one Dr Osvaldo Bodni spoke. The last two were invited by the coordinator.
Ideas emerged from the exchanges and it was suggested to expand the topic that occupies the group by working on the situations that challenge us in everyday life, the epochal changes and their effects on our subjectivity, which includes the pandemic and its effects. We will be working on these ideas in 2024.
Three meetings have been planned for the year (April 18 – July 11 and November 14).
In the following meetings (7/9; 14/12) the coordination plans to invite other professionals to share experiences and ideas with the aim of exchanging and writing about them a joint work like the one that was transmitted in the previous Congress of the AIPCF and which was published in the Magazine.
International Review Network (2020-2024)
Responsible: Rosa Jaitin- Liliana LEVY – Hana Salaam Abdel-Malek, in collaboration with Luis Armando Gonzalez, Diana Hidalgo, and Donatella Lisciotto
Participants :
Revue AIPCF – Daniela LUCARELLI – Massimilano SOMMANTICO
Revues APDEBA (Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association). Graciela ANDRES
Revue SFPPG(Revue française Psychothérapie Psychanalytique Psychanalytique de Groupe)
Le Divan Familial (Société Français de Thérapie Familial Psychanalytique) – Anne LONCAN
Review Couple and family Psychoanalysis (Tavistock, London) James Poulton- Perrine MORAN
Argentine Journal of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of the Liliana LEVY Group – Silvia OLASO
French Journal of Group Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Edith Lecourt, France
Psychoanalysis and intersubjectivity (Family, Couple, Groups and Institutions) – Ezequiel JAROSLAVSKY – Irma MOROSINI – Graciela CONSOLI
Interazioni Magazine – Clinica e ricerca psychoanalitica su individual- coppia-famiglia ) Roma, Anna NICOLO
Psychoanalytic Thought Magazine, Elizabeth PALACIOS, Zaragoza, Spain.
Supports
Argentine Psychoanalytic Association Magazine (APA) –
Mentalization Magazine. Journal of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Bilbao, Spain
Multiverso Magazine (Aracaju/SE Brazil)
Topics. Magazine of the Psychoanalytic Society of Caracas. (Venezuela)
BiViPsi Administration Adrián Hernández
Magazine The time of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Society Roxana MEIJIDE www.laepoca.apa.arg.ar
The objective of this working group, initially made up of 7 journals, was intended on the one hand to support and analyze the problems of psychoanalytically oriented publications; and on the other, to support the defense of the space for psychoanalysis in universities. Accompanying in this way the university generation, for whom articles acquire a central value in obtaining positions. That is, giving young people access to having a publication space accredited at a scientific level.
In general, the objective of the network is to enhance the publications and improve the “visibility” of the magazines, so that they are discovered by a greater number of readers. Publications have a double mission: that of transmission and that of establishing relationships between clinical practice, training and research.
The creation of a solidarity network allowed us to create links with journals attentive to scientific quality. It is about seeking an agreement between the local problems that make certain themes emerge in the publications and the international dimension, looking for research topics that articulate the two dimensions, with the possibility of exchanging articles to be translated.
In continuity with this purpose, a group was formed that allowed us to share the experiences and difficulties that magazines go through, looking for alternative paths that took into account not only the contents, but also the current changes in the modes of dissemination.
The 2021 meetings led to the presentation of papers at the 2022 AIPPF congress.
A round table entitled “Thinking the Editorial Board” in which magazine directors participated, allowed the tasks to be presented and debated, illustrating the invisible and little-known work of the Editorial Board to the public, such as the disagreements that arise between it. and the evaluators, in the case of indexed journals.
The second round table called “Dialogue between authors and readers” focused on styles, the relationships between clinical and poetic experience, and possible support for writing, especially when obstacles arise in the presentation of works required for certification within of our associations.
Starting in 2023, this working group has considered creating writing workshops in each of the three official languages of the AIPCF: English, Spanish and French.
Several colleagues have experience in this type of activity and we have found it useful and enriching to propose such devices to all the therapists in our association.
Three groups will be launched between 2024-2025 by the AIPPF International Journal Network in (English, French and Spanish-Portuguese), coordinated by three colleagues and between one and two observers per group, with the idea of evaluating and conceptualizing the experience . The workshops will last between 4 and 10 meetings, with a limited number of participants.
INVESTIGATION GROUPS
Projective tools for family and institutional groups
Responsible: Alexandra Bernard-Vidal and Almudena Sanahuja
Interventions and interpretations in couple psychoanalysis
Responsible: Alberto Eiguer
Perez Testor, R Fischetti, L Ballelo. D. Costes, A Pimenta, J Gonzalez Rojas, P. De Pablos, ML Diez
Choosing a relationship, chapter two in old age: between security and adventure?
Responsible: Dina Oren
Argument:
What is the third age? It is common to divide old age into three periods: Early old age – from 65 to 70 years; intermediate age – from 70 to 80 years; Progressive old age – from 80 years to the end of life, each of which has its own characteristics.
What is chapter two? Chapter two refers to a relationship in which there are no children in common and they do not form a single economic cell.
Anyone in chapter two experiences a breach in relationship security, whether through the death of a spouse or a breakup. How does one recover from a relationship that has ended, move into a new relationship, and have the ability to create a stable relationship after the old one has eroded? What is a stable relationship? What characterizes those who succeed and those who do not (those who reach the “giving point”)? How is the choice of a spouse made the second time? Is it similar or different from the first time? Is the choice in old age more towards security and stability or towards adventure and passion.
Research method?: 1. Exploratory research, 2. Qualitative research and 3. Quantitative research.
In the report presented in 2024 it appears that in the study we carried out, the twelve interviewees pointed out the great difficulty of the process.
Even so, their motivation to look for a new relationship in old age comes from the desire to fall in love.
Falling in love can only happen if there is a split: glorifying the good and denying the less successful parts.
However, to continue the process and build a stable and lasting romantic relationship, the ability to experience things from the depressive-integrative position is needed; recognize that neither people nor relationships are perfect, and that good and bad are intertwined.
We conducted another round of interviews, to deepen the motivation of the interviewees to seek a new relationship and to see how it affects the war.
Among the things they told us were:
General things, like “I’m not in the mood, I’m worried, I’m not available to look for a new relationship” or specific and personal things, like:
“The war and its hostages brought back nightmares related to with the kidnapping of my husband in Argentina .
»My partner and I plan to move in together before 7.10, but right now, she is subject to many anxieties and refuses to take any steps towards change”
Looking at the situation in the Middle East through Klein’s positions,
we can see that at this moment, neither party is able to look at the situation from an integrative point of view, we hope that the regression in which we find ourselves in the The Middle East also serves for the development and construction of new relationships.
We hope that very soon we will be able to look in an integrative way and see that there are two nations in the region, both with the right to live in peace and prosperity.