In the process of following of generations, of passing down life and responsibility from one generation to the next, it is a pleasure to feel part of a chain where we have inherited something from our predecessors and we may leave something of ourselves to those who come after.
This is an extension of our lives to the past, our forerunner, and to the future, to those who will follow us. How much of it is an illusion and how much is reality? As Winnicott suggests, this is a question, a paradox, that nobody should be so naive to try to clear it up entirely.
RUINED LIVES: REPRESSIONS IN THE SOVIET UNION (by Dr. Tatjana Pushkarova MD, PhD)
Between 1917 and 1953 the population in Soviet Union suffered enormous traumas. Their transgenerational transmission...
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A Virtual Training Institute in Eastern Europe
IPA Centenary Special Issue: Diffusion of Psychoanalysis 2011 This is a short outline of...
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The progenitor’s syndrome
More than 30 years ago in my region (North-East of Italy) there was no analyst and I was travelling for a whole...
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Forty years ago: the abolishment of psychiatric hospitals in Italy
In 1978, the Italian Parliament approved the law decreeing the closure of psychiatric hospitals (PH). It was made...
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Some notes on the psychoanalytical relationship and its setting
INTRODUCTION I would like to focus your attention mainly on a partial aspect of the analytic relationship. I will...
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CREATING A SPACE FOR INDIVIDUATION AND THE NEED FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL HELP
Introduction I will speak about how humans seem to develop out of an almost total immersion and identification with...
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THE MIND AT WAR
Rom J Psychoanal 2017, 10 (2): 96- 110 doi: 10.26336/rjp.2017-1002-8 Rom J Psychoanal Abstract: A war mindset in...
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FUSION – I -II
Abstract: Fusion is one of the fundamental mechanisms of mental functioning, an essential element in all object...
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“WEST MEETS EAST AND EAST MEETS WEST” Development from what toward what?
EPF Conference – Den Haag 2017 Panel on the European Psychoanalytical Institute: 27 years ago the Iron Curtain fell...
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About the Setting with Two Sessions a Week
(2016). Romanian Journal of Psychoanalysis, 9(1):35-49 Real conditions sometimes impose the attemp to...
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OUTLINES ON TRAUMATIC VULNERABILITY DURING PRECOCIOUS PHASES OF PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT
I shall briefly revise some aspects of the...
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