Specificity of our model in the TPPF. The link field. Cotherapy and use of analytical psychodrama techniques
Ana Packciarz Losso and Roberto Losso (Buenos Aires, Argentina; Bologna, Italy)
Our model is based on psychoanalytic theory (Freud, Klein, Winnicott, Bion, Meltzer) and particularly on attachment theory (Pichon Rivière), identification theory , field theory (W. and M. Baranger), link field theory (Losso: intrapsychic link field, interpsychic link field) and scene theory . We also consider the external group-internal group dialectic, significant bonding structures (unconscious alliances), transpersonal defenses, family myth, inter and transgenerational transmission, unconscious phenomena in the bonding field: mythical transference, collusions.
Technique : We work in symmetrical heterosexual cotherapy : a couple of analysts of different sexes and in hierarchical equality, which, among other things, favors the presence of a “second look” in the bonding field.
The co-therapeutic couple can function in some way as a communication model, in which there may be dissent, but a dissent that is not dilemmatic but dialectical, which allows the positions of both therapists to be integrated as complementarity. Such functioning helps to differentiate legitimate, normal and inevitable dissent within any couple in which there is differentiation (that is, autonomy) between the subjects, from disconfirmation , also functioning as transfer through, as a parental couple model, which, From this transference place, you can create the conditions to allow the couple or family to live in the here and now of the field, unprecedented experiences that enable them to acquire new ego resources.
We listen to verbal communications and also take into account non-verbal language, both from patients and analysts.
As therapeutic resources we use: interpretations aimed at the group, subgroups within the family and individuals, constructions ( mainly about the mythical history of the family), and psychodramatic techniques : from the detection of scenes that are presented in the linking field ( pathogenic scenes and key scenes ), we work with dramatizations starting from the manifest scene , trying to reach the latent scene. Dramatizations are particularly useful for exploring inter- and transgenerational links (in the dramatization, characters from the mythical family history are “summoned”).
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