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The omnipotent state of mind: Psychoanalytic perspectives ; : 220-229, 2022.
Article in English | APA PsycInfo | ID: covidwho-20245423

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This chapter describes a model of 'perverted containing' to explain escalating destructive social processes rooted in phantasies of omnipotence and nourished by unconscious fears of annihilation, using the example of Donald Trump-a prime example of a destructive narcissistic populist who offers omnipotence as salvation. It combines Rosenfeld's theory of destructive narcissism and Bion's theory of the container/contained to describe the powerful dynamic existing between Trump and his voters in which the omnipotent appeal of the demagogue held his followers in thrall. Trump offers his supporters omnipotence as perverted containing. He embodies omnipotence as a person;therefore, he appears convincing, so people can easily believe in him-especially those who, on an early level of intensive anxieties, feelings of persecution, and longing for symbiosis, prefer to attach themselves to one person. Thus, he accommodates their desires to identify and bond symbiotically with one person in total consensus-without triangulation, without doubting and space to develop individual perception and judgment. In the 2020 COVID-19 crisis, Trump first used his usual means: distortion and denial of reality, self-praise and directing accusations towards the usual 'enemies'. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

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Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood ; : 1, 2023.
Article in English | Academic Search Complete | ID: covidwho-20243269

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In 2020 and 2021, there has been extensive scholarly and popular discussion about children's learning loss due to COVID-19 and its related school closures. This conversation generally overlooks the voices of young children. This study, set in a US context where children spent a year or more attending school exclusively remotely, reports from interviews with 10 second-graders about how they conceive of loss related to COVID-19 and particularly what it might mean to lose learning. The study finds that the children have extensive ideas about what it means to lose something tangible or intangible, and that their theories about loss are based in well-understood personal experience. It also shows how children use loss narratives to make sense of sociopolitical events and concepts in the world around them, and it offers the possibility that the upheaval wrought by COVID-19 has helped some children become quite emotionally aware and able not only to tolerate but also adaptively defend against difficult feelings. The article emphasizes the importance of foregrounding children's ideas and voices in making sense of their educational experiences. [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood is the property of Sage Publications, Ltd. and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)

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Quarterly Journal of Speech ; 109(2):132-153, 2023.
Article in English | Academic Search Complete | ID: covidwho-20237767

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Planet Lockdown, a documentary film, claims that the COVID-19 pandemic was manufactured by finance capitalists, Silicon Valley, and the pharmaceutical industry to microchip the population, consolidate global wealth, and enslave the population. Viral videos from the film have received tens of millions of engagements throughout social networks and media, constituting a major source of COVID-19 disinformation. This article argues that COVID-19 enslavement fantasies consummate white conservative fears of racial displacement, brought on by an impending demographic shift and greater visibility of antiracist activism throughout the early stages of the pandemic. I argue that Planet Lockdown's preoccupation with so-called "modern slavery" restages a national primal scene to resecure white power as perceptions of its dominance wanes: a fantasy of the origins of the liberal subject that omits that subject's relationship to slavery and anti-Blackness. By imagining slavery as a future threat to white selfhood rather than the structural organization of a society underwritten by anti-Blackness, COVID-19 conspiracy rhetoric facilitates a disavowal of the structural legacy of white supremacy. [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Quarterly Journal of Speech is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)

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Psychoanalytic Dialogues ; 33(2):278-282, 2023.
Article in English | APA PsycInfo | ID: covidwho-20234774

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In response to the papers in this issue by Schoen, Petrucelli and Sands, the author takes up their themes of theorizing and working clinically with embodiment by way of a string of associations: first to a documentary film by performance artist, K8 Hardy, and then to a quote by French psychoanalyst Didier Anzieu. The author then uses these associations, inspired by the three papers, to pose questions about how we might expand our thinking and practice around embodiment to include the virtual, providing examples from her clinical practice. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

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Interacao em Psicologia ; 26(3):375-386, 2022.
Article in English | Scopus | ID: covidwho-2325702

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Faced with the Brazilian government's negationist attitude which led to the exponential increase of deaths by COVID-19, the work of mourning is approached, in this work, as an element in the context of collective catastrophes that favors a political stance and a subjective elaboration of traumatic situations. We will then underline how mourning appears in literature as a strategy of subjectivation of what has been lost, especially through the writing of diaries. Based on the theoretical elements of Freud on mourning and Ferenczi on the appropriation of the traumatic, three diaries by authors who describe the work of mourning (Rolland Barthes, Boris Fausto and Neal Peart) are analyzed. It can be seen in these texts how mourning promotes a rearrangement of memories, entangling the individual and the collective, the exterior and the interior, calling for testimony. It also favors instinctual and narcissistic stabilization, enabling new approaches and the construction of a future life project. In the end, as a counterpoint to the federal government's disrespect for the grief of those who lost relatives and friends during the pandemic, the duty to recognize grief, to value it and to offer support for its realization is highlighted as a political strategy to promote the mental health. © 2022 Universidade Federal do Parana - Departamento de Psicologia. All rights reserved.

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British Journal of Psychotherapy ; 39(2):271-273, 2023.
Article in English | EMBASE | ID: covidwho-2320454
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APA PsycInfo; 2023.
Non-conventional in English | APA PsycInfo | ID: covidwho-2318748

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Ricardo Rubinstein explores the contemporary culture and its discontents - including subjectivity, fanaticism, panic attacks, technology, and pandemics - through a psychoanalytic lens. Each chapter considers an aspect of modern society and attempts to unpick these complex facets of the world we live in. Psychoanalytic understandings of the triggers and socio-environmental factors of panic attacks, the inner worlds of people attracted to fanatical beliefs and risky behaviors, and our dependence on technology for our most vital activities are explored in an accessible way. Rubinstein also considers the restrictions put in place on the lives of millions of people as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and examines human adaptation to restrictive conditions. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Contemporary Discontents is illustrated throughout with clinical vignettes from the author's practice. This psychoanalytic exploration of a diverse range of topical issues will be of interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists in practice and in training. It will also be relevant for academics and students of sociology and cultural studies and to readers interested in understanding cultural concerns in more depth. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

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Richard e Piggle: Studi Psicoanalitici del Bambino e dell'Adolexcente ; 29(2):190-197, 215, 2021.
Article in Italian | APA PsycInfo | ID: covidwho-2313158

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The article offers a reflection on the experience of the Marches Group of the Italian Society of Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy for Children, Adolescents and Couples during lockdown. Group members were able to share their thoughts from a distance during the emergency created by Covid-19 and this experience also continued subsequently. The group proved to be an important resource during this difficult period as it allowed members' minds to continue thinking while the world had come to a halt. The article dwells on a clinical case that was shared during the group's evening meetings. The protagonist was a girl in the latency period, whose symptoms arose during the Covid emergency. The group acted as a container and fostered thoughts and associations that supported the psychotherapist in this clinical experience. The group sharing was equally important for helping members to leave the protective shell of their homes when everything got going again. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Italian) La riflessione che proponiamo si articola sull'esperienza del gruppo Asne-Sipsia Marche nel corso del lockdown. Durante Femergenza da Covid 19 abbiamo potuto condividere pensieri da remoto, esperienza che e continuata anche successivamente. Il gruppo si e rivelato una risorsa importante in questo periodo difficile, permettendo alle nostre menti di continuare a pensare, mentre il mondo si era fermato. In questo lavoro ci soffermiamo su un caso clinico, condiviso nelle nostre serate, che ha come protagonista una bambina in eta di latenza la cui sintomatologia si inserisce nella cornice delFemergenza Covid. Il gruppo ha svolto la funzione di contenitore e ha favorito pensieri e associazioni che hanno sostenuto la psicoterapia in questa esperienza clinica. La condivisione e stata altrettanto importante per Fuscita dal guscio protettivo delle nostre case, al momento della ripartenza. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

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Revista San Gregorio ; - (53):212-226, 2023.
Article in English | Web of Science | ID: covidwho-2309796

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The present investigation was conducted in the pandemic period of covid-19. Given this panorama, it was necessary to know the current state of the research regarding the difficulties of adolescents related to the distancing of family subjectivity or "psychic separation" generated by confinement. Its main objective was to describe the psychoanalytic constructs that could explain the difficulty of psychic separation in adolescents in the face of the so-called New Normality. Thus, a systematic review of the literature was conducted from October 2020 to July 2021. The sample was made up of 12 documents from the Scielo database and the Google Scholar metasearch engine that provided research from university repositories. One of the most relevant results of the studies analyzed was the particular response to a frequent problem: The family group was decisive in building an "external" bridge, either by way of respecting the privacy of the adolescent or contributing to the insertion in other extra-family spaces. The bibliometric data showed that the greatest scientific production occurred in 2020, prioritizing articles over theses;on the other hand, Ecuador and Argentina were the ones that published the most.

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Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy ; 37(1):1-3, 2023.
Article in English | EMBASE | ID: covidwho-2293759
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Richard e Piggle: Studi Psicoanalitici del Bambino e dell'Adolexcente ; 29(3):274-281, 347, 2021.
Article in Italian | APA PsycInfo | ID: covidwho-2293035

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In a Liceo on the outskirts of Rome, the psychotherapist (a presence in the school for approximately ten years) listens to the malaise communicated by young people who, with the advent of Covid, have been heavily infected by the climate of demotivation, dis-identification and depressivity. The difficult goal of achieving a sense of identity is dramatically linked to gender problems. This reality cannot be tackled without also working on teachers' burn-out and the crisis that families are facing. Acrostics and analytic psychodrama were the methods employed to turn the situation into a dynamic one. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Italian) In un Liceo della periferia romana, la psicoterapeuta, presente nella scuola da circa dieci anni, ascolta il disagio dei ragazzi che, con il Covid, sono stati fortemente contagiati dal clima di demotivazione, disidentificazione, depressivita. Il raggiun gimento di una difficile identity si annoda drammaticamente attorno ai problemi del genere. Non si pud far fronte a questa realta senza lavorare anche sul burn out dei docenti e la crisi delle famiglie. L'Acrostico e lo psicodramma analitico sono state le metodologie praticate per rendere dinamica la situazione. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

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Forum der Psychoanalyse: Zeitschrift fur klinische Theorie & Praxis ; 38(4):385-400, 2022.
Article in German | APA PsycInfo | ID: covidwho-2292657

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The psychoanalytic exploration of social phenomena goes back as far as Freud's writings on cultural theory. In this article we aim at delineating how critical scholars following Freud sought to make psychoanalysis fruitful for social analyses and, based on this, develop contours of psychoanalytically oriented social research. This school of thought does not simply "apply" psychoanalytic knowledge but traces the social production of psychological conflicts. Moreover, we introduce Alfred Lorenzer's methodology and method of in-depth hermeneutic cultural analysis and from this theoretical perspective provide insights into recent research on the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) protests. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (German) Die psychoanalytische Erkundung gesellschaftlicher Phanomene beginnt bereits mit Freuds kulturtheoretischen Schriften. In diesem Artikel zeichnen wir nach, wie an Freud anschliesende kritische Denker:innen die Psychoanalyse fur Gesellschaftsanalysen produktiv zu machen suchten, und entwickeln davon ausgehend Konturen einer psychoanalytisch orientierten Sozialforschung, die nicht nur psychoanalytische Erkenntnisse anwendet", sondern der gesellschaftlichen Hervorbringung innerpsychischer Konflikte nachspurt. Wir gehen dann auf Alfred Lorenzers Methodologie und Methode der Tiefenhermeneutischen Kulturanalyse ein und geben aus dieser theoretischen Perspektive einen Einblick in aktuelle Forschungen zu den Coronaprotesten. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

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Richard e Piggle: Studi Psicoanalitici del Bambino e dell'Adolexcente ; 29(3):266-273, 346, 2021.
Article in Italian | APA PsycInfo | ID: covidwho-2292463

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Following through on the proposal launched in Richard and Piggle's fourth issue for 2020, the authors seek to enrich the discussion about psychoanalysis for children and adolescents during the period of the pandemic. This they do by availing themselves of the contributions presented by groups belonging to the Association of Italian Groups Providing Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (AGIPPsA) during the latter's annual seminars. The apparent period of stasis imposed by the anti-Covid rules generated new ideas and new and original forms of intervention, demonstrating the staying-power of the psychoanalytic method and technique, albeit adapted to fit the necessary adjustments that had to be made. This challenge resulted in a proliferation of projects, institutional interventions and technical adaptations so as to remain in contact with adolescents and pick up the distress signals that they have sent out to the adult world. After being the most resilient during the first phase of the pandemic, the adolescent world has subsequently sounded an alarm that most often has been linked to isolation, the lack of sociality and the absence of physical contact. The absence of schooling has helped to aggravate the picture, proving to constitute a loss of opportunities and social rites that are highly important for an adolescent's growth. The pandemic caught them by surprise during a highly formative moment during which they have had to add other types of mourning to the mourning for their loss of childhood. This malaise has needed to be listened to and helped and requires the kind of treatment that is not just attention but a shared project over time. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Italian) Dando seguito alia proposta lanciata nel quarto numero del 2020 di Richard e Piggle, le Autrici provano ad arricchire il confronto sul tema della psicoanalisi dell'infanzia e dell'adolescenza nel periodo della pandemia awalendosi dei contributi presentati dai gruppi afferenti all'AGIPPsA nel corso degli annuali seminari intermedi. L'apparente periodo di stasi imposto dalle regole anti-covid e stato generative di idee e di nuovi ed originali interventi mostrando la tenuta del metodo e della tecnica psicoanalitica pur se adattata ai necessari aggiustamenti da mettere in campo. Questa sfida ha prodotto un proliferare di progetti, interventi istituzionali e adattamenti tecnici per rimanere in contatto con gli adolescenti, raccogliendo i segnali di sofferenza che hanno inviato al mondo adulto. Dopo essere stati i piu resilienti nella prima fase della pandemia, in seguito hanno suscitato un allarme, il piu delle volte collegato all'isolamento, alia mancanza di socialita ed all'assenza del corpo. La mancanza della scuola ha contribuito ad aggravare il quadro determinando la perdita di occasion! e riti sociali importantissimi per la crescita dell'adolescente. La pandemia li ha sorpresi in un momento altamente formativo, in cui al lutto per 1'infanzia perduta hanno dovuto aggiungere altri lutti. Questo malessere ha avuto bisogno di ascolto e di aiuto, di quella cura che non e solo attenzione, ma un progetto di condivisione nel tempo. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

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Individuation and liberty in a globalized world: Psychosocial perspectives on freedom after freedom ; : 73-91, 2022.
Article in English | APA PsycInfo | ID: covidwho-2291998

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This chapter provides an overview of psychoanalytical conceptions on freedom is provided along with certain political objections. Urukagina's code has been widely hailed as the first recorded specimen of government reform, seeking to achieve a higher level of freedom and equality. The chapter encounters conical shape associated with freedom in Ancient Rome: pileus. Liberty embodies the privileges of independence, freedom, on the other hand, the rights of belonging. To top it all off, in countries with authoritarian regimes, quarantine-like regulations that are dictated by the COVID-19 pandemic created an opportunity for restricting freedom of speech and freedom of peaceful assembly. Ego is neither able to control passion nor the external world in the name of reason or freedom. Through a newly won freedom from the constraints of fantasy, the course of a psychoanalysis should enable the person to approach reality from a different perspective, to pass from the restrictions of an unconscious internal reality to the possibilities offered by whatever may happen. Consistent with his aim, Freud saw freedom as an illusion and redefined it as the recognition of necessity. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

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Enrahonar ; 70:131-154, 2023.
Article in Spanish | Scopus | ID: covidwho-2291957

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This article looks at the Covid-19 pandemic as a contingent factor in, and its revelatory effect on, various contemporary expressions of neoliberal ideology in Latin America. Based on philosophical and psychoanalytical concepts of a Lacanian nature fundamentally proposed by Slavoj Žižek, it examines the critical uses of the notion of ideology in its various manifestations: fear of the other, imposition of the logic of self-promotion, destruction of social ties, extractivism of nature, and fetishization of the discourses of unity in the face of the pandemic. The hypothesis is that the pandemic offers an opportunity to rethink contemporary subjectivity, through a confrontation with the Real that borders on symbolization and, ultimately, ideological capture, in order to question the assertion that there is no alternative. © 2023 Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and Universitat de Girona. All rights reserved.

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Richard e Piggle: Studi Psicoanalitici del Bambino e dell'Adolexcente ; 29(3):290-296, 347, 2021.
Article in Italian | APA PsycInfo | ID: covidwho-2291177

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This article offers a reflection on how migrant adolescents benefitting from a Siproimi/SAI reception project might have experienced this period of lockdown caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The focus proposed by the author emphasises the existential anxieties elicited by a "suspended time" that seems to re-evoke the condition of suspension already (or still being) experienced during the long bureaucratic waiting period lived in the hope of obtaining a response to the request for international protection. A psychoanalytic reading provides the tools needed to grasp the complexity characterising young migrants struggling with a "double identity transition" that is both migratory and adolescent. In such cases, the house temporarily lived in under the reception project becomes the container to be taken care of and inside which a body fully undergoing adolescent transformation will, perhaps, be able to find its abode and meaning. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Italian) In questo lavoro viene proposta una riflessione su come adolescent! migranti, beneficiari di un progetto di accoglienza Siproimi/SAI, possano aver vissuto questo periodo di lockdown dovuto alia pandemia da COVID-19. Il focus proposto sottolinea le angosce esistenziali elicitate da un "tempo sospeso" che sembra rievocare la condizione di sospensione gib sperimentata o ancora attuale, nel lungo periodo di attesaburocratica, nella speranza di ottenere una risposta alia richiesta di protezione internazionale. Una lettura psicoanalitica fornisce gli strumenti per cogliere la complessita caratterizzante un giovane migrante alle prese con un <<doppio transito identitario migratorio ed adolescenziale, ove la casa abitata tempo raneamente nel progetto di accoglienza diviene il contenitore di cui prendersi cura,all'interno del quale forse potrb trovare dimora e significato un corpo in piena trasformazione adolescenziale. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

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Dreaming ; : No Pagination Specified, 2023.
Article in English | APA PsycInfo | ID: covidwho-2304012

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The 2019 novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) has strongly impacted the world. Recent research findings found significant effects of the pandemic on dreaming. We investigated sociodemographic, COVID-19-related variables, and oneiric activity (by the Most Recent Dream) during the first, the second, and the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in three matched samples, for a total of 600 Italian adult subjects (82.7% women;aged 18-81 years, M = 30.4, SD = 13.3). Results indicated that: (a) the majority of participants were medium recallers;(b) during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, participants reported higher negative emotions and longer dreams;(c) during the second wave, participants reported higher positive emotions and lower presence of sensory impressions in their dreams;(d) during the third wave, participants reported lower positive emotions in their dreams;and (e) participants knowing a COVID-19 death reported shorter dreams and higher negative emotions in their dreams, while student participants reported longer and more realistic dreams. Results of the quali-quantitative analyses revealed recurring themes in the Most Recent Dreams, as well as a strong continuity with the waking experience, especially focused on family and friends, as well as on places where the quarantine was lived and on the outside world. In sum, the findings of this study indicate that the COVID-19 pandemic understood as a high-impact and traumatic event, significantly affects people's dreams, especially in terms of elicited emotions, as well as in terms of themes related to the pandemic. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

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Affectio Societatis ; 19(37):1-22, 2022.
Article in Spanish | ProQuest Central | ID: covidwho-2300089

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El presente artículo aborda la cuestión del desamparo a partir de los relatos de mujeres que son madres en el contexto del distanciamiento social provocado por la pandemia del COVID-19. Con una base psicoanalítica, se realizó la lectura de 342 relatos, elaborados por mujeres que fueron contactadas a través de las redes sociales, y una revisión narrativa de la literatura sobre el tema del desamparo, con el objetivo de articular los relatos con reflexiones teóricas. Se evidenció que la pandemia provocó que estas mujeres se encontraran profundamente solas, sin ayuda y sin recursos. El desamparo e incluso el desánimo parecen ser elementos clave para analizar la situación de las mujeres que son madres en el contexto del COVID-19 en Brasil.Alternate : O presente trabalho discute a questão do desamparo a partir de relatos de mulheres que são mães no contexto de distanciamento social provocado pela pandemia de covid-19. Com base na psicanálise, realizou-se a leitura de 342 relatos, produzidos por mulheres convidadas via redes sociais, e uma revisão narrativa de literatura sobre o tema do desamparo, visando a articular os relatos com as reflexões teóricas. Destacou-se que a pandemia acarretou a essas mulheres se encontrarem intensamente sozinhas, sem ajuda e sem recursos. O desamparo e, inclusive, o desalento parecem ser elementos fundamentais para analisar a situação das mulheres que são mães no contexto de covid-19 no Brasil.Alternate : This paper addresses the problem of abandonment based on narratives of women who are mothers in the context of the social distancing caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. With a psychoanalytical basis, the reading of 342 accounts produced by women invited via social networks and a narrative review of the literature on abandonment were carried out. The aim was to articulate the narratives and the theoretical reflections. It was noted that the pandemic led these women to find themselves intensely alone, helpless, and without resources. Therefore, abandonment and even dejection seem to be the essential elements for analyzing the situation of women who are mothers in the context of COVID-19 in Brazil.

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Psychoanalysis, Self and Context ; 2023.
Article in English | Scopus | ID: covidwho-2299319

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We are always practicing in a time of threat and loss, but what changes is the nature of the threat and the loss: is it shared or not shared, known, or not known, disclosed by force or disclosed by choice? This paper explores the themes of trust and belonging as the essence of the psychoanalytic frame and the parallel processes of how our own traumas, as psychoanalysts, warp and weave through our relationships with our patients over time. The pandemic has gifted us with a perfect storm of shared traumas and created new opportunities for navigating, negotiating, rupturing and repairing, and healing, as the frame was forcefully bent, broken, and rebuilt in the context of this global crisis. The pandemic has emphasized the importance of lifting the veil of secrecy and bringing those of us who live these complex lives of service, as both healers and suffering strangers, into community and dialogue. To illustrate these themes, this paper explores the parallels between "Jennifer” my patient of 14 years and my own journey through life and analysis. © 2023 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

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Forum der Psychoanalyse: Zeitschrift fur klinische Theorie & Praxis ; 38(4):401-414, 2022.
Article in German | APA PsycInfo | ID: covidwho-2298197

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After 2 years of the pandemic the author examines some results from the psychoanalytical literature, in which the threat due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was investigated and the challenges for the analytical dyad were discussed. The first part deals with the uncanny, which some authors ascribed to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of COVID-19. It centers on the question whether this is inherent to the virus, which according to Freud's dialectic understanding of uncanny, is something endemic, old familiar. In the second part the author discusses some individual and collective defense movements against the uncanny of the virus, including social politically highly bizarre and dangerous group formations, such as the QAnon movement. The main focus of this article is the critical question discussed in the third part, whether in view of the radical changes in the analytical framework (telephone, video), the analytical work can succeed (at all) without physical encounter of the analytical dyad. Based on a case study the author investigates the technical challenges of treatment, to consider and to interpret the movement of transference due to the altered framework and points out the danger of losing the "inner framework" (Bleger 1993). (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (German) Die Autorin sichtet nach zwei Jahren Pandemie einige Ergebnisse der psychoanalytischen Literatur, in der die Bedrohung durch COVID-19 untersucht und die Herausforderungen fur das analytische Paar diskutiert werden. Im ersten Teil geht es um das Unheimliche, was einige Autoren dem COVID-19-Virus zuschreiben, zentriert auf die Frage, ob dem Virus das innewohnt, was nach Freuds dialektischem Verstandnis des Unheimlichen etwas Heimisches, Altvertrautes ist. Im zweiten Teil diskutiert die Autorin einige individuelle und kollektive Abwehrbewegungen gegen das Unheimliche des Virus, einschlieslich gesellschaftspolitisch hochst bizarrer und gefahrlicher Gruppierungen wie die QAnon-Bewegung. Hauptschwerpunkt dieser Arbeit ist die im dritten Teil diskutierte kritische Frage, ob die analytische Arbeit angesichts radikaler Veranderungen des analytischen Rahmens (Telefon/Video), ohne leibliche Begegnung des analytischen Paars, (uberhaupt) gelingen kann. Anhand einer Vignette untersucht die Autorin die behandlungstechnische Herausforderung, die Ubertragungsbewegungen durch den veranderten Rahmen mitzubedenken und zu deuten und verweist auf die Gefahr, den inneren Rahmen" (Bleger 1993) zu verlieren. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

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