Abstract

MIODOWNIK, Bernard. In defence of a measure of heterodoxy: on the frequency of sessions in psychoanalysis. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2014, vol.48, n.2, pp. 19-32. ISSN 0486-641X.

Treatments with fewer sessions than twice a week to a weekly session, considered to be of low frequency, are not uncommon in the current psychoanalytic clinic. In order to contextualize the phenomenon of decreased frequency, sociocultural issues of contemporaneity and aspects of the psychoanalytic clinic dating back to the origins of the debate about psychoanalysis and analytic psychotherapy, and which came into the period known as "crisis in psychoanalysis", are developed. From these references, arguments are presented to demonstrate how, in certain cases and under certain conditions, a psychoanalytic work, not a psychotherapy, can structure itself in low frequency. Clinical illustrations are presented. The features that instrument the psychoanalyst for the practice of psychoanalytic treatment in low frequency are emphasized. Possible conflicts regarding the training of psychoanalysts are discussed.

Keywords : frequency of sessions; psychoanalysis and analytic psychotherapy; contemporary clinic; frame; analytical listening.

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