In terms of identity in intersexity — sexual science and psychodynamic rapprochement Katinka Swiss (Hamburg) Identity has only arrived at a relatively late stage in psychoanalytic literature and theory: Erik Erikson has highlighted the dialectic inherent to identity between individual uniqueness and...

The authors try to place Hanna Segal’s work in the history of psychanalysis ideas. Two of his contributions have profoundly affected psychanalytic thinking: his thoughts on symbolism and his theory of aesthetic experience. Other important contributions concern the question of interpretation, the tre...

Elevated schizotypy relates to similar cognitive attenuations as seen in psychosis and cannabis/polydrug use. Also, in schizotypal populations cannabis and polydrug (including licit drug) use are enhanced.These cognitive attenuations may therefore either be a behavioral marker of psychotic (-like) s...

peer reviewed Examined the personality disorders among relatively old dyslexic children. The degree of disorientation of these Ss parallels the degree of fragmentation of personality. In the Rorschach test and TAT, the image of the self is poorly differentiated from a poorly structured maternal imag...

‘titrebSummary’/titrebIf early mother-infant interactions in the event of maternal depression have been widely studied, we are much less familiar with those of psychotic mothers. Studies, comparing early interactions in different maternal mental conditions, are also rare. This study aims to assess w...

As it stands, psychoanalytic theory offers several models that can identify the effects of psychotic structure in the subject. Compensation, decompensation, triggering, stabilization, symptom and supplementation will first be located in the elaborations of Freud and Lacan. The contribution that foll...

‘titrebSummary’/titreb. After a careful examination of the psychopathological texts of the last Freud (from 1924 to 1938), the author demonstrates, in addition to the existence of sexual psychosis in the last freudian nosography, that the latter potentially encompasses the entire field of psychopath...

‘titrebSummary’/titrebCet article testifies to the experience of the Hospital Interzonal General of Ayudos, San Martin de La Plata: the development of a care system alternative to hospitalisation, the confluence of psychanalysis, the collective approach and international guidelines. Embedded in a do...

Based on the proven outcomes of the individual motivational interview in psychotic patients who use cannabis, a Swiss team complemented their individual care with motivational groups. The format of these groups further mobilises these patients and in particular promotes the balance of decisions.

If exposure to childhood trauma increases the risk to later develop a psychotic disorder, the impact of such events on clinical presentation and outcome after a first psychotic episode deserves attention both in order to identify specific patients' needs and to develop adapted therapeutic interventi...

Recent studies have shown that cannabis may disrupt glutamate (Glu) signaling depressing Glu tone in frequent users. Current evidence have also consistently reported lower Glu-levels in various brain regions, particularly in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) of chronic schizophrenia patients, whil...

This article presents teamwork in the Centre psychotherapiquee de La Velotte. Through a clinical presentation, we show how the transfer constellation is deployed at the heart of our team, and how it allows us to return to the patient the various divisive parts he has been able to project outside the...

With the advance of industrialization during the late 19th century, the occident watched its everyday life become submerged by all sorts of mechanical devices and technological innovations. Delusions followed that societal process: machines, instruments and media became part of the delusions’ conten...

How do the jalousy and desire of the other relate to psychosis and obsessive neurosis? A “demonstration of sick person” (Lacan) and the prisoner of Marcel Proust allow us to shed light on this issue, with a guide to the “algorithm” of the augustinian scene of jalousy given by Lacan in Le Désir and i...

Lacan’s interest in sole and his pathos in psychosis dates from his time of training as a psychiatrist, driven by this important chapter of psychiatry, which from the middle of the 19th century to the first third of the 20th century saw a symptom of mental alienation in language or thought disorders...

International audience ObjectivesThe present clinical research explores the underlying logic of litigious paranoid delusion, more specifically in its querulous and pseudo-altruistic forms. This research examines both the causality and the psychic functions fulfilled by episodes of vengeful acting ou...

‘titrebSummary’/titrebExiting in the context of early consultation in CMPP, the authors set out the path towards a particular form of group family care that complements group psychanalytic therapy offered to severely damaged children (autistic, psychotic and dysharmonic paintings). Each other’s expe...

It may be in the surroundings of Pussin that the first traces of ‘rational foleys’ will be found. A further step was taken in 1834 with François Leuret’s ‘arrangers’ who oppose the ‘incoherencies’. In the 1860s, Campagne itself would make a wonderful summary of the issue, preparing the French School...

This study provides a language analysis through some scenes of a corpus of four mosaic films by the French filmmaker Arnaud DESPLECHIN: How I competed... (“my sex life”) (1996); Kidney and Queen (2004); A Christmas storm (Roubaix!) (2008) and Three memories of my youth (our arcadies) (2015). In the...

taking as the starting point the reception of a psychologist at a crisis pavilion of a psychiatric service, we refer to the follow-up she has carried out for six months to a young hospitalised man presenting a child psyt. This clinical meeting gave rise to a reflection allowed by the ‘good and fair...

There has been increasing attention to the subgroups of mood disorders and their boundaries with other mental disorders, particularly psychoses. The goals of the present paper were (1) to assess the familial aggregation and co-aggregation patterns of the full spectrum of mood disorders (that is, bip...