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SEIXAS, Sonia Guiomar Martins. Is it possible that analytical transference occurs in a mental health institution?. Estud. psicanal. [online]. 2011, n.35, pp. 115-126. ISSN 0100-3437.

The present paper aims at deepening the knowledge on the transference and its variations on the psychotherapeutic services on a public Mental Health Hospital in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil form the experience of the researcher, a psychiatric social worker and psychoanalyst, in this institution. The study was carried out during the researcher’s training in psychoanalysis. She did her clinical training in psychoanalysis under supervision between the years 1991 and 1996. After that time she worked as a psychoanalyst, full member of the sector of psychotherapy in that Mental Health Institute between 1997 and 2003. In conventional offices, the psychoanalyst and his patient have the determination about the conduction of treatment, where the psychoanalyst makes the selection of his patients, as well as the patient has a direct contact with the psychoanalyst, without any interference. In Mental Health’s Institutions, the institution appears as a legitimate treatment space and, at the same time, raises questions about the possible interference in the relationship transference. It is noteworthy that the practice of psychoanalysis in this institution provided a rich clinical practice, addressed to the person’s inner world, while individual being, in his speech that brings the reality of his life in various contexts, which validates the psychoanalyst need to know and recognize the existing multicultural diversity.

Palavras-chave : Psychoanalysis; Institution; Mental Health.

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