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Specificities of Psychoanalytic Treatment: Birth of a Method

Editor : Yvette Dorey, Editor : Serge Frisch, Editor : Leopoldo Bleger

Reviews and Endorsements

Specificities of Psychoanalytic Treatment: Birth of a Method is the fruit of almost twenty years of work, reflection, and research by a group determined to defend research in psychoanalysis based on the psychoanalytic method itself. Readers will certainly be delighted to follow the journey of the Specificity Working Party from its creation, its development, its validation, and the multiple experiences of its presenters, observers, and moderators. Each of these roles in the exercise of the dispositif is dissected from the experience of Specificity Working Party’s members.
Ruggero Levy, full member and training analyst, Brazilian Psychoanalytic Society of Porto Alegre (SPPA) and International Psychoanalytical Association; past president, SPPA

This is perhaps one of the authors’ main achievements: they invite the reader to follow them throughout their clinical and theoretical experience and to feel like a member of one of the groups, to identify with the rapporteurs or observers, to share doubts and possible interpretations, and to come into contact again, as we do in our daily work, with the specificities of psychoanalytic treatment.
Cláudio Eizirik, training and supervising analyst, Psychoanalytic Society of Porto Alegre; professor of psychiatry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

The reader will find an extraordinary collection of writings from analysts who have been engaged with a psychoanalytic research project to identify the core concepts of the analysing situation. This impressive accomplishment is that a new research method has been movingly born. Inter-analytic group work that takes place at international psychoanalytic conferences has forged a method that provides evidence for the living validity of the Freudian project. This volume highlights a rare innovation of a convincing psychoanalytic research method that is intrinsically psychoanalytic. The chapters are presented in a sequence that accounts for the evolution of this unique methodology that continues to be realised in the context of the European Psychoanalytical Federation and beyond.
Jan Abram, training and supervising analyst, British Psychoanalytical Society; former chair, Paris Group; president, European Psychoanalytical Federation