The author describes the process of a couple’s psychoanalytic psychotherapy, conducted in co-therapy, through the analysis of some dreams and their associations. The dream analysis will show the common and shared inter-subjective dimension of the couple that emerged from the psychoanalytic psychotherapy setting. Central notions of this clinical work are those of inter-phantasizing, common and shared dream space and couple associative chain. But also the containing model of the psychic envelope can be considered as one of the bases of the theory of a couple’s dream space. The author describes the process by which the members of the couple, and more generally the therapeutic new-group, were able to achieve the unveiling of a denial pact that allowed the couple to start a family at the time of the birth of the first child with Down’s syndrome; but also, and more fundamentally, what has allowed this young couple to cope with the trauma of this birth. The author finally shows how the group working-through, within the setting of the couple’s psychoanalytic psychotherapy, gave new meaning to sensations, feelings and affects of the couple.
A couple’s unconscious communication: dreams / Sommantico, Massimiliano. - In: BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY. - ISSN 1752-0118. - 32:4(2016), pp. 456-474. [10.1111/bjp.12251]
A couple’s unconscious communication: dreams
SOMMANTICO, MASSIMILIANO
2016
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The author describes the process of a couple’s psychoanalytic psychotherapy, conducted in co-therapy, through the analysis of some dreams and their associations. The dream analysis will show the common and shared inter-subjective dimension of the couple that emerged from the psychoanalytic psychotherapy setting. Central notions of this clinical work are those of inter-phantasizing, common and shared dream space and couple associative chain. But also the containing model of the psychic envelope can be considered as one of the bases of the theory of a couple’s dream space. The author describes the process by which the members of the couple, and more generally the therapeutic new-group, were able to achieve the unveiling of a denial pact that allowed the couple to start a family at the time of the birth of the first child with Down’s syndrome; but also, and more fundamentally, what has allowed this young couple to cope with the trauma of this birth. The author finally shows how the group working-through, within the setting of the couple’s psychoanalytic psychotherapy, gave new meaning to sensations, feelings and affects of the couple.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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