III International Congress – Barcelona 2008
Presentation
In spite of the progress of civilisation and the state laws by which we live, violence still affects couples and families painfully. Furthermore these are the most affected section of the population.
The facets of this violence are many and becoming now more well known, at least for their physical form. The psychic expressions – incest-like disorders, narcissistic perversion, pathological secrets, effects of the mental illness of a patient on his/her family, etc.- remain still not very well known.
Violent acts happening during some critical times in the family life (around a birth, during adolescence, old age) deserve specific attention because the weight of current reality makes us easily forget that the family suffers also from reminiscences.
This violence creates in the family environment, as well as in the psyche of the therapists, a powerful denial which can leave everyone dumbfounded.
We can even consider this denial as the main barrier to a deeper recognition of the disorganising effects of violence on intra and interpsychic links.
What is more, shared denial helps transgenerational transmission and deferred repetition of traumatic experiences of family history.
How can we understand and deal with this reality, taking into account the unconscious processes at work in the family group?
How could we transform psychic remnants of violence – from family, society, culture- current or inherited, during sessions ?
Which value do we grant the process of authority within the family and society as well as the psychic regularisations or dysfunction it causes?
How can we put into a story (structure and narrative) the expressions that the superego and the ego ideal of the subject take, as deferred actions, and this sometimes from birth, on a family group where violence rules?
Which fantasies, myths, shared ideals, which recurrent hallucinations underlie violent acts? What happens to intimate and shared feelings in such clinical cases?
We propose to address these questions and many others by discussing clinical material as well as theoretical and practical issues, using our experience in couple and family psychoanalysis.
3ème CONGRES INTERNATIONAL DE PSYCHANALYSE DE COUPLE ET DE FAMILLE
« Violences dans les couples et les familles contemporains. Un défi pour la psychanalyse familiale »
3TH. INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF COUPLE AND FAMILY PSYCHOANALYSIS
“Violence in contemporary couples and families. A challenge for family psychoanalysis”
3er. CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE PSICOANÁLISIS DE PAREJA Y FAMILIA
“Violencias en las parejas y familias contemporáneas. Un desafío para el psicoanálisis familiar”
Facultat de Psicologia, Ciències de l’Educació i de l’Esport Blanquerna
Universitat Ramon Llull
c/ Císter 34
08022 Barcelona
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congresoAIPPF@blanquerna.url.edu
Comité de Honor/Comité d’Honneur/Committee of Honor
Exma y Magnífica Sra. Esther Giménez Salinas, Rectora URL.
Honorable Sra. Marina Geli i Fàbrega, Consellera de Salud (pendiente de confirmación).
Honorable Sra. Carme Capdevila i Palau, Consellera d’Acció Social i Ciutadania (pendiente de confirmación).
Exmo. Dr. Alberto Eiguer, Presidente AIPPF
Exmo. Sr. Climent Giné, Decano Facultat de Psicologia, Ciencies de l’Educació i l’Esport Blanquerna
Exmo. Sr. Ramon M. Nogués, President Fundació Vidal i Barraquer
Exma Sra. M. Teresa Miró, Presidenta Sociedad Española de Psicoanálisis.
Comité Local Organizador/Comité Local Organisateur/Local Organizing Committee
Dr. Carles Pérez Testor
Dr. Víctor Cabré Segarra
Dra. Montserrat Davins
Sra. Marta Batalla
Dr. Josep A. Castillo
Dr. Ricardo Sanchez Martín
Comité Científico/Comité Scientifique/Scientific Committee
Serge Arpin
André Carel
Alberto Eiguer
Evelyn Granjon
Carole Hamel
Sonia Kleiman
Hanni Mann-Shalvi
Anne Loncan
Roberto Losso
Anne-Maria Nicolò
Carles Pérez Testor
Alberto Péndola
David Scharff
Yolanda de Varela
Félix Velasco Alva
Martine Vermeylen
Comité Internacional de Consulta/Comité International de Consultation/International Advisory Committee
Comité Hispano de Consulta/Comité Hispanique de Consultation/Hispanic Advisory Committee
BARCELONE 24.25.26/07/2008
Un défi pour la psychanalyse familiale »
Participants are kindly invited to submit abstracts for presentation in Congress on one of the proposed themes in one of the official languages. The presentation must concern a recent original study or research (not more three years old) and not have been published.
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“Violence in contemporary couples and families:
a challenge for family psychoanalysis “
Possible topics for papers relating to the argument.
I) Clinical and psychopathological studies:
– Physical violence and its recurrent acts during therapy.
– Somatization as a psychic working out and primary symbolization of violence.
– Psychic violence: sexual and narcissistic perversion, incestuality, secrets, mental illness, psychoses, etc… What is the part of generational, what is the part of the genome in the imaginary, in reality?
– Difficult periods of life (perinatality, teenage, old age…) and violence: taking into account the present and the reminiscent.
– Societal violence (war, forced immigration, new and rapid cultural transformations, precariousness…) past and present: their effects on the family psychic groupality.
– Recomposed families and violence.
– Violence and brotherhood.
– Violence and structuring of the primary links.
– Attachment forms and violence.
– Violence in family psychoanalysis session, including verbal violence (“when saying is doing”).
– Counter-transference, inter-transference, supervision and violence.
– Violence and care homes: repetition, diffraction and working out.
– Authority, regulator or source of violence?
– Violence and differences.
– The sex offender and his family.
– Neglect and abandonment of child.
– Violence in the diagnosis and care of sterile couples.
II) Theory :
– Violence, aggressiveness, destructiveness, vitality… what are the differences between those concepts?
– Concept of “fundamental violence” (Jean BERGERET).
– Violence of affects, passions.
– To re-affect acted violence.
– The violent act: a potential message in the meeting.
– Violence and primary distress,
– Denial of violence,
– Violence of denial and splitting,
– Violence of the denied coming back,
– Violence, transgenerational transmission and deferred actions,
– Authority process, super-ego, ideal ego in violent families,
– Function of collective ideals,
– Hallucinatory return of violence,
– Narcissistic perversion, moral sadomasochism, transference and paradoxical counter-transference
– Desire, sacrifice, and violence.
– Violence in lack of filial acknowledgment.
– Factors of resilience in family.
– Violence and subjectivation.
III) Technique and practice:
– Framework and fundamental rules of psychoanalysis put to the test by violence.
– Transforming psychic tracks of current and inherited violence.
– Containing violent acts during the session. Receptiveness of the analyst.
– Sharing of affects, empathy, intersubjectivity in the transformation of violence.
– Is the process of authority a dimension of the psychic treatment of violence?
– Figuration and representations of violence, raw objects, acts, feeling of body, dreams, fantasies, myths, drawings…
– Role of the play and psychodrama in couple and family therapy.
– Put the violence into a story: (re)construction, narrativity.
– In his turn can the psychoanalyst show violence at the session?
– Psychoanalysis of couple and family (CFP) and justice.
IV) Research:
• Multicultural research on family violence.
V) Training
• Place of family violence studies in psychiatry, psychology, victimology university courses.
• An approach to violence in PCF training.