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This paper discusses some collaborations and resistences of psychoanalysis to social gender-based violence, highlighting conflicts and tensions therein. It examines the notion of gender difference, according to Freud and Lacan, given its strategic position in psychoanalytic approaches to sexuation and LGBTQI+ subjectivities. Finally, the paper presents some theoretical vignettes from contemporary authors, organized into three axes aiming to: repositioning and/or overcoming the Oedipus Complex; deconstructing binary reasoning and working with the notion of open body; and problematizing the epistemic subject within the analytical listening. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Harold Frederick Searles developed his contributions to psychoanalysis based on his clinical experience with psychosis, especially schizophrenia. He also elaborated important theories on the typical psychic illness of borderline cases. This article presents and discusses the role of intersubjectivity in Searles’ clinical thinking. To do so, the text analyzed the paper “The Schizophrenic’s Vulnerability to the Therapist’s Unconscious Processes” (1958/1965a). After presenting some biographical data about the author and his style as a writer and analyst, the article focuses on the analysis of the aforementioned paper. The discussion concludes by pointing out the relations between Searles’ clinical thinking and some contemporary analytical proposals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to propose some questions about the psychoanalyst's resistances to the brand-new configurations of gender (and bodies) at the contemporary. It supposes further the persistence of the desire as a thing that allows the reformulation of the analytical doxa, considering these modifications as an enlargement of the symbolical universe -- that results in several consequences in the clinical's listening effectivity. Therefore, we reassert the ethics of desire against the real while unrepresentable and the bet of writing against the impossibility of sexual relationship. Starting with a short appreciation of a Spanish film maker Pedro Almodóvar's film "Todo Sobre Mi Madre" (Spain, 1999), we vindicate, at last, an imposition of a time to understand the changes in progress at our field, in order to have sensitive conclusions about the brand-new possibilities of sexual arrangements showing in the clinic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the concept of "Raw Art," following its main articulations in the field of art and mental health until the 1960s. Through a critical analysis, the text shows how this concept, despite encouraging the appreciation of artistic materials produced by psychiatric patients and other naïve artists, contributes to a segregationist categorization of the so-called "mad" artists, by adopting a reductionist and idealized understanding of creation as a spontaneous expression, accessible to these subjects precisely because they are "outsiders." Such notion, although still used today, underwent remodeling and renaming--as "outsider art"--between 1960/70, following the denaturalization of isolation for the so-called "insane" brought by the Psychiatric Reform and the advent of significant changes in the conception of art and artistic production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Subject assumption operation is one of the four axes that underlie research using Clinical Indicators of Risk for Child Development (IRDI) and consists of an anticipation performed by the maternal agent on the behalf of a not yet constituted subject -- the baby. This paper presents a case report that aimed to investigate how the subject assumption operation occurs in a neonatal semi intensive care unit. To do so, a semi-structured interview was conducted followed by application of the IRDI protocol and the Denver II instrument. Results showed that the subject assumption can occur, but, in this clinical case, it was unsustainable and non-operational, since the mother-child relation was possibly influenced by the physical limitation of the baby, their prolonged hospitalization, and emotional aspects of the mother. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates the process of communicating the diagnosis of childhood cancer considering the child's position, the parents' place, the effects of the medical discourse, and the intervention possibilities of the discourse of the psychoanalyst. Based on three clinical cases, the discussion points out how the analytic listening helped the team faced with a bioethical conflict increasingly present in pediatric oncology: should the child know the truth, or should they be protected from it? Being aware of the impossibility of telling the whole truth, the analyst can disentangle themself in advance from these imperatives and provide a discursive turn which highlights the child subject's singular knowledge in detriment of the formal academic knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the relationships between psychoanalysis and photography, stemming from the Photographic Service of the Salpêtrière, where Freud did a research internship in 1886 with Jean-Martin Charcot. Drawing significantly on the work of Georges Didi-Huberman, the purpose of this paper is to show how photography might be useful to a psychoanalytic investigation - starting with Salpêtrière, with all its importance in the history of psychoanalysis, which relevance becomes particularly evident when we consider the Salpêtrière's photographic iconography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To better understand the widespread perception of misgovernment and helplessness in Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic, this article examines two historic moments referring to the interface between plague and helplessness, from the psychoanalytic and political perspectives. Firstly, it addresses the intertwining between Freud's life and work, culminating with his experience during the Spanish flu pandemic, in 1920. Secondly, it analyses the measures put in place to combat the coronavirus pandemic, since March 2020, which -- until the moment I am writing this article (January 2022) -- killed more than 600,000 Brazilians and left more than five million families around the world in mourning. This paper asserts that the feeling of helplessness unveils a state of denialism and misgovernment, which calls into question the Brazilian rule of law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a theoretical reflection on some potentialities of the aesthetic moment: this is configured, at the same time, as a refuge from the storms of the present, as a possibility to strengthen the individual's ties with life, and as an opening to the future. The English pianist James Rhodes's relationship with classical music, as narrated by him in his autobiography, is presented as an expression of such potentialities. During its argumentation, the text describes the aesthetic moment as a moment of loosening of the boundaries of the self, which updates, to a certain extent, the infant's primordial relationship with the maternal object. The article emphasizes the limits of the aesthetic moment, as it does not replace the need for human interaction, while indicating its potential as a kind of bearable waiting place which keeps the horizon of the encounter open. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on new discoveries in the field of neurobiology and on his own research on severe psychopathological conditions mostly unaddressed by Freud, the Viennese psychoanalyst Otto Kernberg redefined the death drive concept. Despite acknowledging that the phenomena referred to by Freud refers as supporting the idea of a death drive reveal the existence of a dominant self-destructive tendency, Kernberg maintains that such tendency results from a malignant transformation of aggression due to constitutional and relational factors, rather than from an innate feature of the mind. This paper seeks to reassess some problematic points of Freud's second drive theory and argue that Kernberg's perspective allows to avoid some of its main stalemates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the close relationship between self-mutilation and the problem of limits, understanding the attack on the skin as a condition of possibility for this practice. The skin, which leads us to sensoriality and the first notions of self, acts to protect our individuality and support our interactions with the Other. It contains a premise of integration, constituting a boundary that marks the limits of existence itself. In self-mutilations, the attack on the skin reveals a loss in the the differentiation between subject and object, revealing a confusion in the subject's limits. The text posits that the recourse of the body, by attacking the skin, in selfmutilations, emerges as an attempt to contain the self in moments when the subject feels at risk of losing their narcissistic integrity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses trauma as an in-body memory based on ramifications that are manifested as "acts" in the body, and which replace psychic elaborations. In thispsychoanalytic perspective, repetition is manifested as fixation to a joissance "beyond" and as regression as a kind of memory that avoids the new and looks to traces of past memory left in the body. To this end, the nightmare lived and narrated by activist Eve Ensler in her book In the body of the world: A memoir (2014), will be used as reference. Ensler speaks of the deeply intimate and painful relationship she has with her body and how it changed throughout her life, after spending time with women victims of sexual violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reflects on the place that the analyst can occupy in cases of end-of- -life care patients at the hospital setting. The possibility of imminent death in this type of care fatally embodies the encounter with the real as impossible, the motto of psychoanalysis in any circumstance. Based on the case report of a patient's last day of life, the article emphasizes the effects made possible by a psychoanalytical listening, insofar as it gave room to the anguishes and desires of subjects involved, concluding on the importance of such an listening against that provided by the medical team. In discussing palliative care, it both underlines the professionals' difficulties in dealing with patient death, and problematizes the impasses posed by the lack of integration of this practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the assumption that affect is a key determinant in recognizing contemporary family relations in law, a discursive field that officially legitimizes the family. To do so, a theoretical research explores the notion of affect in everyday language, which equates it to emotions, feelings, and passions, comparing it with the definitions of psychopathological semiology, which also fails to conceptualize the aforementioned notion. Psychoanalysis is used, therefore, to broaden the discussion, understanding affect as an effect produced by relations with the Other in the Self and in the body through the signifier. This allows us to include desire and demand in the reading of family relations, and thus to consider affect beyond its imaginary dimension and contribute to the work of psychologists who deal with family law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the contributions of phenomenological psychopathology for the critical consideration of the phenomena of attention and inattention in the contemporary social and historical context. To achieve that goal, we analyzed the naturalist matrix of conception of attention and its dysfunction and situated phenomenological psychopathology. We present critical guidelines regarding the naturalistic conception of executive functions and their correlation with attentional processes and question descriptions of the inattentive subject's experience. We further analyzed the social normativity of the attentive experience and its intersubjective and contextual criteria. Finally, we propose a hermeneutical approach regarding contemporary attention regime, which highlights the link between the experience of attentive failure and the demands of a world that has become increasingly faster and filled with stimuli. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This qualitative study discusses the inclusion of family caregivers of people with severe and persistent mental disorders in a participatory academic research. Based on the concept of recovery, the paper addresses the active participation of family members in the evaluation process of mental health services and shared knowledge production. Data was collected by means of participatory assessment instruments in the different stages of inserting family members as researchers. In conclusion, the protagonism of family members in research development is a powerful tool for recovery as it expands knowledge, qualifies user relationship with services, strengthens social bonds and the sharing of experiences, and favors emancipatory and democratic processes of social control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper posits that autists do possess knowledge on the autistic psychological functioning. To demonstrate it, the article examines the autobiographical accounts of Lucy Blackman, a non-verbal autistic writer, whose analysis allowed us to understand the logic of autistic symptoms and highlighted the feasibility of a new libidinal regulation in autism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a theoretical reflection on the "hook up" ("ficar" in Portuguese) phenomenon practiced by Brazilian adolescents. It is based on some clinical fragments and vignettes to discuss a discursive form that reflects an unstable mode of libidinal investment that presents itself as a "new form of relationship". Using psychoanalysis as a reference, this study defines "hook up" primarily as a logical time which essential feature is a connection between the social imaginary and the symbolic order, which leads to a reduction of the desire in the former one, constituting both a discursive and an existential "non-place" at the same time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we intend to think about the issue of truth in psychoanalysis, based on its proximity to the idea of post-truth and to the fake news, which achieve status of absolute truth and foment hatred in social networks. For being disseminated in interconnected networks, they allow words to widely circulate. Concerning the field of psychoanalysis, the explosion of fake news and their effects on discourse raise questions about the relationship of language and the field of the Other, and about its drive effects, leading us to debate the symbolic order in our century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Initially, this paper aims to outline some historical references about hysteria, especially from its demonological perspective and regarding the "theories" which associate the idea of 'demon' to 'illnesses of the soul'. We take into account Freud's paper 'A seventeenth-century demonological neurosis' (1923), written in a time when Freud examined witchcraft, possessions and other phenomena and analyzed Christoph Haizmann's case who, harassed by convulsions and frightening hallucinations, makes a deal with the devil. In that paper, Freud associates the figure of the demon to the figure of the father, outlining a fundamental question for the studies on hysteria, which will serve for Lacan's developments about that subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article lists some issues considered crucial for correlating Psychoanalysis and Law, especially the field of Human Rights, taking as an axis of correlation the relationship between the concepts of psychological suffering, helplessness, psychoanalysis ethics and the subject of the unconscious. We suggest reflecting on the statute of law and the social bond based on a shift in its concept of subject and pose the following question: Is the subject of law, based on the rational and conscious human person guided by the humanist tradition and the economy of goods still able to respond to impasses in the field of politics and social ties? Founded on Lacan's assertion that the object of psychoanalysis is not man, but what he lacks -- not an absolute lack, but the lack of an object --, this paper uses that statement for its critical approach to the discourse of Human Rights to highlight an epistemological pathway beyond philosophical and social criticism and thus to enable the emergence of something new that can be constructed based on psychoanalysis: the impossible of the universality of Human Rights Declarations and the consequent convocation of the subject of desire in extimity to the subject of law, based on the clinical method as a way of addressing the suffering which humanism, classical ethics and the discourse of Human Rights cover. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the presentations of the sexual in our contemporary age. First, a brief evolutionary summary of sexuality is given and after that, based on contributions by Freud, Ferenczi and other authors, it describes the unusual paths both the sexual and sexuality have taken in man. The paper further discusses the two dimensions - in a quantum sense of the term - psychoanalysis works with and reveals how instinctive conservatism is repeated still today, although in diverse ways, making the history of man an eternal recurrence. Eventually, the paper depicts how contemporary discourses on sexuality continue to influence cultural sexual morality in their attempts to control sexuality [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the presentations of the sexual in our contemporary age. First, a brief evolutionary summary of sexuality is given and after that, based on contributions by Freud, Ferenczi and other authors, it describes the unusual paths both the sexual and sexuality have taken in man. The paper further discusses the two dimensions - in a quantum sense of the term - psychoanalysis works with and reveals how instinctive conservatism is repeated still today, although in diverse ways, making the history of man an eternal recurrence. Eventually, the paper depicts how contemporary discourses on sexuality continue to influence cultural sexual morality in their attempts to control sexuality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, focused on the problem of sexual addiction within psychoanalysis, the authors initially reveal that the basis of their theory can be found in the early days of Freud's work in the field of present neuroses. In later psychoanalytical research, this clinical situation tends to be considered close to sexual perversion. In this paper, the intertwining of these two clinical pictures is explored to identify points of convergence and divergence, emphasizing, however, the singular nature of sexual addiction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, focused on the problem of sexual addiction within psychoanalysis, the authors initially reveal that the basis of their theory can be found in the early days of Freud's work in the field of present neuroses. In later psychoanalytical research, this clinical situation tends to be considered close to sexual perversion. In this paper, the intertwining of these two clinical pictures is explored to identify points of convergence and divergence, emphasizing, however, the singular nature of sexual addiction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes a reflection on the epistemological status of psychoanalysis created by Freud. It was developed through a critical confrontation of the insertion of his metapsychology within a framework some authors have called vitalism, which would have been the result of a deviation from his academic education when resuming and updating the 19th-century concept of vitalism with the notion of Trieb. In response, this article discusses some topics, such as Freud's scientific training environment, the status of the notion of Trieb - which is considered conventional and entropic - and finally, resorting to Canguilhem, inserts Freud's metapsychology in a framework of mechanistic materialism elevated to the ultimate consequences, which would have been the result of his true epistemological procedure, in addition to his most daring and refined scientific contribution at the time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes the theoretical bases for the elaboration of a new definition for Psychopathology, conceiving it as the study of the morbid impasses disturbing, or even preventing, the realization of a singular subject within the social bond. The notion of subject at issue is the one arising from the psychoanalytic thinking of Freud and Lacan. The (psycho)pathology of the subject relies on the ideas of Viktor von Waizsaecker, for whom "pathology", unlike the biological notion of "disease", is a phenomenon that presupposes a subject as such. It is also inspired by Pierre Fédida's work, which claims that psychopathology refers fundamentally to the subjective pathos, in its multiple semantic dimensions of passivity, suffering and passion. The consequences of the redefinition of the (psycho)pathology proposed here apply to the set of clinical practices, either medical-psychiatric or others, through the ethical and technical specification of the treatment, now guided by the care with the possible and responsible realization of the subject as a language being, inside the social bond. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the social imaginary, there is a widespread fantasy in which woman is taken of noble feelings when giving birth to a child. However, clinical experience teaches that motherhood can be a time of intense malaise, expressed in the form of conflicts, symptoms and distress. This paper tries to show, through theoretical reflections and presenting clinical vignettes, that the pregnancy-puerperal cycle is a process in which women are exposed to traumatic experiences that are capable of disorganizing them psychically. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents some of Bion's concepts, such as α function, α element, daydream thought, selected fact and reverie, based on the expansions of two contemporary psychoanalysts -- Antonino Ferro and Thomas Ogden. Ferro's concept of narrative derivative is highlighted as a privileged expression in the session that analyses daydream thought. The paper closes with a dialogue using a tale by Mia Couto, in order to clarify the concepts presented, in articulation with psychoanalysts' work, which is to communicate and transform emotional experiences; the images of narrative interpretations are a privileged access to daydream thought. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents some of Bion 's concepts, daydream thought, selected fact and reverie, based on the expansions of two contemporary psychoanalysts - Antonino Ferro and Thomas Ogden. Ferro fs concept narrative derivative is highlighted as a privileged expression in the session that analyses daydream thought. The paper closes with a dialogue using a tale by Mia Couto, in order to clarify the concepts presented, in articulation with psychoanalysts， which is to communicate and transform emotional experiences; the images of narrative interpretations are a privileged access to daydream thought. such as a function, a element. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the issue of wandering in a transtructural form, as a vicissitude that occurs in different clinical structures, and verifies its positivity: the possibility, from erring, to building up something new. Based on the connection between psychoanalysis and art, the paper refers to the writing of James Joyce to investigate the wandering and analyze the path taken by the writer, initially in a vagabond position, wandering, until he invented with his art a place for himself in the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes a qualitative research based on narratives collected by means of interviews and workshops. It aims to reveal in what way health professionals from seven specialties of a neonatal and pediatric ICU of a Municipal Public Hospital in the interior of Rio de Janeiro identify signs of suffering at work. These professionals deal with the birth, pain and death of children, but do not include this experience as an integral part into their daily work. We believe that the use of narratives is a device that allows to incorporate the dimensions of these denied experiences and to produce knowledge about life and death in work processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a suggested nomenclature. I propose to name two analytical functions that are part of the psychoanalyst's performance: the analyst-environment function and the analyst-object function. Patients often present a precarious level of development and in such cases, the basic function of sustaining the self that needs to be performed by the analyst may be called an environmental function, analogous to the initial mother-environment function. I call this role played by the psychoanalyst analyst-environment. Likewise, a psychoanalyst may alternate his functions and, to meet the need of a patient, perform the role of an object of a certain need or desire. This psychoanalytic function may be called analyst-object. Analyst-environment and analyst-object are interchangeable functions played by the psychoanalyst in his clinic. Clinical case vignettes are presented to illustrate these different types of psychoanalytic functions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes in what way Jacques Lacan opens a new path to approach the mystical experience in the light of psychoanalysis. The French master compares the path of the analyst to the one undertaken by the mystic and thus goes against the trends in the fields of psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis that pathologized this phenomenon at that time and reduced it to hysterical or psychotic symptomatology. Lacan also draws an intimate connection between the goal of the analysis and the achievement of an opening to the feminine field. Following the path suggested by this author, we suggest distinguishing the notions of Other jouissance and jouissance of the Other, providing elements for a differential diagnosis between mystical experience (marked by desubjectification) and psychotic outbreak (marked by subjective annihilation). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reports a theoretical study of the connections between the DSM and the classificatory logic by Simão Bacamarte. The contemporary hegemonic psychopathological discourse of the DSM was taken from the point of view of a psychoanalytic reading, while Bacamarte's classification composes Machado de Assis' work "The alienist". We point out that the space a society allocates to the reverse of reason defines the space of freedom, revealing the forms of the social bond of a collectivity. Thus, freedom is closely related to a political position, a conclusion that allows to approach psychopathology from the same perspective. We find that if madness has been freed from the asylum walls, it remains more than ever trapped within the walls of the discourse of excessive DSM classifications, since that discourse neutralizes what makes the subject of the unconscious speak. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses current migration policies and the status quo of refugees by circumscribing some specificities of its subjective configuration. Traumatic elements and expressive hiatuses belonging to the representational capacity show to be contingencies, a corollary of repeated exposure to precariousness and violence. Based on some metapsychological tools and the interlocution between psychoanalysis, culture and literature, the most relevant and idiosyncratic aspects of the clinic of refuge are developed. To achieve that, the strongly autobiographical narrative "Why the Child is Cooking in the Polenta" by Romanian writer Aglaja Veteranyi is used as an illustrative resource. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the autonomy of subjects engaged in substance misuse (SM). After examining the concept of autonomy of subjects engaged in SM, based on medical, psychological and moral paradigms that range between understanding SM either as a compulsion or a choice, we discuss the psychopathological aspects involved in SM, i.e., the experience of temporality and its implications regarding the autonomy of these subjects and their recovery process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to review the origin of the concept of cycloid psychoses, its psychopathology and its evolution. By analyzing the literature, the authors seek to delineate the nosological validity of this concept, as well as its current delimitation and its future utility in psychiatry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the experience on monitoring psychotic patients during a literary workshop aimed at writing and producing a journal in a CAPS III. It was our goal to survey the effects of the act of writing, especially when writing along with others. The procedure is based on the memories of Dr. Schreber, on James Joyce's literary work, and on fragments of our work in the workshop, based on S. Freud and J. Lacan. We conclude that the effects of participating in collective activities comprise addressing others and the production of writing intended for the trash bin, resulting in an excess of jouissance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Psychoanalytic writings on transsexuality have increased exponentially. However, a gap remains in terms of what guides analytical practice aimed at transsexuals. Based on Butler and Laplanche, we perform a critical analysis of a clinical report and propose a hypothesis on the difficulties that came up during our theoretical studies and practical work with transsexuality. The paper concludes with a reflection on the ethical and political potential of psychoanalysis, advocating a clinic that goes beyond the "trans" diagnosis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper promotes a theoretical discussion about the performance of support networks in cases of childhood domestic violence, ways of violence, and how to address the issue. It portrays the support network and childhood in public policies. It discusses the deficiency of networks when addressing domestic violence. It proposes changes to the mindset of public administrators and in the formation of human resources in that field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reflects on the experience of the research "Applied Psychoanalysis and the Practice in the Community", based on the clinical service offered to the officers of the 10th Military Police Battalion of Rio de Janeiro State. In it we think about the particular characteristics of the psychoanalytic treatment of policemen, in order to understand the contingency of the possible management for traumatic events, so as to welcome the excess of jouissance present in the testimony that the policemen bring of their symptoms and passages to the act. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to readdress the question of the universalization of the psychotic offender's criminal incapacity intended by article 26 of the Brazilian Penal Code and by Forensic Psychiatry, in light of the psychoanalytic experience, in a prison in Minas Gerais state. The case of the young murderer college student J.C. illustrates the importance of the psychoanalytic clinical method in the process of subjective accountability of the psychotic offender. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Anchored on psychoanalysis and on the concept of social support, this paper aims to explore the psychic repercussions of the illness of women with breast cancer and the reintegration potential by the Support Group. The results point to the strengthening of the women's psychosomatic defenses, by means of the ties created in the Group, regarded as a space that promotes holding, by providing social support, sharing of feelings and better psychological and somatic integration, making social reintegration and the confrontation of the disease possible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is the result of a post-doctoral research. It debates the notion of psychic crisis according to Pierre Fédida. The authors discuss the case of a hospitalized HIV/AIDS patient, in which the countertransference effects of psychotherapy suggest the critical processes of the psychic crisis situation and the desire to "know about oneself". The analytical process enabled the patient to do so. The paper considers that the notion of psychic crisis contributes to research concerning psychoanalytic psychotherapy in the hospital. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on problematizing the State's concession of benefits to Mental Health service users, and on reflecting about the use the latter make of this money. Result of the authors' experience in deinstitutionalization strategies, this paper is based on the theoretical and clinical references of psychoanalysis - betting on the singularization of practices that exist in and around dealing with money in the field of Mental Health. Examples of clinic cases illustrate the problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the emotional and psychic constitution of children living in poor communities of Rio de Janeiro, where they are constantly exposed to extreme violent situations and feelings of helplessness, fear and despair, as well as a potential trauma. Based on a clinical practice developed with these children, the paper discusses the role of hospitality and empathy provided by the community that seems to contribute for their healthy development. Nevertheless, a precocious emotional development has been observed as a protective measure developed by children as an attempt of "caring for themselves". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper promotes a theoretical discussion about the performance of support networks in cases of childhood domestic violence, was of violence, and how to address the issue. It portrays the support network and childhood in public policies. It discusses the deficiency of networks when addressing domestic violence. It proposes changes to the mindset of public administrators and in the formation of human resources in that field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reflects on the experience of the research "Applied Psychoanalysis and the Practice in the Community", based on the clinical service offered to the officers of the 10th Military Police Battalion of Rio de Janeiro State. In it we think about the particular characteristics of the psychoanalytic treatment of policemen, in order to understand the contingency of the possible management for traumatic events, so as to welcome the excess of jouissance present in the testimony that the policemen bring of their symptoms and passages to the act. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Anchored on psychoanalysis and on the concept of social support, this paper aims to explore the psychic repercussions of the illness of women with breast cancer and the reintegration potential by the Support Group. The results point to the strengthening of the women's psychosomatic defenses, by means of the ties created in the Group, regarded as a space that promotes holding, by providing social support, sharing of feelings and better psychological and somatic integration, making social reintegration and the confrontation of the disease possible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]