Abstract

SECHAUD, Evelyne; FRISCH, Serge  and  BLEGER, Leopoldo. The Specificity of psychoanalytic treatment today. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2010, vol.44, n.3, pp.53-64. ISSN 0486-641X.

The specificity of psychoanalytic treatment today is the theme of a Working Party of the European Psychoanalytical Federation, one that has been in existence since 2006. Its aim is to devise a research method applicable to psychoanalytic treatment so as to clarify the processes that are stirred up in the psychoanalyst's inner world when he or she is treating and transforming the patient's material. The research work is based on material from small groups studying three or four sessions of a patient's psychoanalysis; the method adopted is similar to that suggested by Norman and Salomonsson, and makes use also of Donnet's ideas. It is based on the analogy between the psychoanalytical session itself and what is reported about it to a group which reacts to what it can understand in that report, "processing" both the analyst's counter-transference and those aspects of the patient's transference that have not been acknowledged as such. Research into the specificity of psychoanalytic treatment today involves an epistemological reflection on how we can remain as close as possible to the psychoanalytical method invented by Freud. Given the number of theories that exist nowadays, the gap between theory and practice is a source of productivity and creativeness. Inter-analytical clinical discussions (i.e. between psychoanalysts) based on free association may constitute a new field of psychoanalytical investigation, without any reference to supervision or group dynamics. In the course of this work, various aspects of the violence inherent in all kinds of drive-related activity mobilized during an analysis have been identified; these could well be a suitable subject for further study.

Keywords : specificity; psychoanalytic treatment; free association; method employed in inter-analytical discussion; violence; research in psychoanalysis.

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