Presenting the work on multi-family psychoanalysis exposed during the Roman Days of Multi-Family Psychoanalysis is a source of great joy and pride. It’s been a while since a small group of mental health workers decided to organize three days of perer confrontation and exchange with professionals from different places in the world.
Andrea Narracci, Claudia Tardugno, Federico Russo, Luciana De Franco and Fiorella Ceppi Read more
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The author exposes the therapeutic process undertaken by a borderline patient. Private therapy together with the participation in multi-family psychoanalysis groups allowed working in the consulting room with a broader approach thanks to the group support. This paper illustrates the primary concepts of multi-family psychoanalysis. Furthermore, it defines the notion of mental illness as a condensation of painful and traumatic personal events, Read more
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Classical psychoanalytical training was based on a paradigm in which both the etiology and the cure were centered on the subject. New clinical demands forced to revise that “ideal model.” Using a language of his own and an extended metapsychology, the Argentine psychoanalyst Jorge García Badaracco devised a new way of seeing mental illness and a novel therapeutic framework he called “multifamily psychoanalysis,” focused on the structure and fabric of the Read more
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According to the author in the Group of Psychoanalysis Multifamiliare, the encounter with the other can occur, finally, in the free form and mutual between therapist and patient: there is no longer any need to find the theoretical box in which to fit the patient. The GPMF is able to prevent the onset of Read more
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Madness has long been in search of the context of the Group of Multifamily Psychoanalysis, in which to represent its stories and the types of relationships that led to it. In the Group, operators share the same fate, and to their research work, through the development of self-knowledge, and through Read more
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The authors present clinical considerations rooted on their experiences in multi-family groups. They address the issue of the construction of an emotional climate and environment promoting the work of the group. The emotional climate also supports the functions of the co-therapists and of therapy itself, it maintains attention to emotional experiences and to the climate of respect and solidarity, as well as to the relationship between the internal and shared external Read more
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Intense movements occur in a family during the work of a group of Multifamily psychoanalysis. These modifications generate acting outs, interruptions of treatment, and resistance to change in general. The author shows the work that takes place among the group, the family and the patient, Read more
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The first coordinator of multifamily psychoanalyses groups was Jorge García Badaracco. Many people around the world are trying to continue his work, sometimes from quite different ideological and professional positions.
Quite often doubts arise about we are or are not doing a good job, and discrepancies appear. Then, in relation to the difficulty, the need per external references arises with the desire to be sure that we are doing a good job. On the other hand, Badaracco did not leave too many instructions written down. Read more
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We are aware that the subject is born and develops in relation to others, both in case of an healthy functioning and in mental illness. From this perspective, the role of the therapist is not limited to his technical work, but also to his taking into account the needs of the patient and to succeeding, starting from this, to promote a new healthy mental development. Various factors of the personality of the therapist come to the fore when working with severe patients, such as the adequate transparency, the Multifamily Read more
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This paper aimed to analyse, through the contributions of authors from different disciplines, how duality, and plurality and internal (and often unconscious) multiplicity seem to be the structural elements of individuality. The individual’s mind seems to be organized around configurations of multiple and discontinuous states of the Self with varying degrees of awareness. The ability to integrate individual multiplicities and discontinuities is based on the fundamental function of the mind to objectify/subjectify Read more
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The aim of our presentation is to explore and the aspects of Multifamily Psychoanalysis Groups (MFPG) that convey inner working-through and transformation. Such processes are considered just as they are usually depicted by the psychoanalytic theory and practice. In the specific and peculiar frame of MFPG, the raise of an emotional atmosphere facilitating the expression of the emotional charge, i.e. of the transfert, is essential. Moreover, therapeutic alliance is the basic condition for the activation of an analytic Read more
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This paper aims to highlight some peculiarities of Multifamily Psychoanalysis with the purpose of stimulating thought, shared reflections and research. We do not claim in any way to completely fulfil a task that would be too challenging to be developed basing from a focal Read more
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This text treats a specific aspect of multi-family psychoanalytic groups in which it is sometimes possible to find that the pathological and pathogenic interactions frequently visible in a session with a parent and a child, also develop in a couple, between parent and child or even between brothers and sisters.
How is it possible then, to deal with this kind of interaction in a group in which one of the members of a couple, or a symptomatic parent and his child, Read more
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In the community perspective about the treatment of serious mental illness through the multi-family groups (Badaracco, 2004; Scholz & Asen, 2010), empirical research with psychiatric patients should focus, according to the literature (de Albuquerque et al., 2010; Karamlou et al. 2010), on the evaluation of correlation between outcome variables, therapeutic factors, perceived burden of care and characteristics of family’s structure, in order to understand what roles they play in mediating Read more
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To treat psychosis is necessary to construct a context in which it is possible to observe and defuse psychoses, a context in which it is possible to deal and cope with the tendency to shrink the capacity to use all of the self that everyone has, parents, children and professionals interdependencies involved in the Read more
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In this article I want to describe the importance of the father in the psychic development of children, and his role of thirdness capable of progressively opening up the symbiotic mother-child bonds towards alterity. It is because of the presence of a third person in the relationship that children can start developing their thinking abilities, and particularly their symbolic world. In the second part of the article I will highlight how a therapist working with severely damaged patients and their families Read more
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In this paper, which integrates narrative moments, theoretical approaches and methodological aspects, the author focuses on the centrality of the Multifamily intervention (initially in the form of Assembly and later as Multifamily Group of Psychoanalysis) in the organization and practice of rehabilitation Day Care Center C.I.P.R.E.S., one of the first rehabilitation services in Uruguay.
Born in the delicate phase of recovery after the heavy democratic dictatorship, the Centre is organized around the needs of free exchange, Read more
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Based on the particularity an emotive experience activates when we connect with other’s authentic expressions, the author reflects on how the search for authenticity resides in every one of us, and turns into a main element in the most serious patients’ experiences, constantly deprivated of the possibility to freely express their experiences and the most genuine aspects of themselves. Understanding that working among these aspects represents the primary core and an essential element of the transformational potential psychoanalytic multi-family groups have, the author propose an original articulation exercise between J.G. Badaracco y C. Bollas, particularly between the concepts of normogenic Read more
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The author emphasizes the importance of formation for workers. Formation according to a modality that follows the theoric/experiential patterns of Garcia Badaracco’s Multifamily Psychoanalysis. Following this path, she puts in evidence two fields connected between themselves, the personal one and the caring/relational one. The suggested reflections start from the personal formative experience with Garcia Badaracco and Maria Elisa Mitre in Buenos Aires. The author shows a connection between Read more