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The aim of this study was to examine the psychoanalytic production on perversion in the last decades, focusing on the relations the authors establish between perversion and contemporaneity. To carry out this research, we consulted psychoanalytic papers indexed by the American Psychology Association (PsycInfo/APA), papers of psychoanalytic journals, and chapters of books whose topic is perversion, but at its intersection with contemporaneity. To analyse the material found, thematic categories were created: "perversion and current pathologies", "perverse social bonds", and "perversionization or obsessionization?". Through this research, we realized that perversion is a very frequent topic in the current psychoanalysis discourse; however, often this term and its derivative, "perverse", are used indiscriminately to denounce everything that is immoral and evil in the society. This way, there is a risk of trivializing perversion, escaping from its original psychoanalytic sense. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The increase in the use of drugs and their subjective effects are an epidemic problem for public health. This paper presents the results of a qualitative study on the subjective condition of eight young addicts that have sought help in rehabilitation clinics. The methodology of interpretive analysis of data collected from the interviews used the psychoanalytic theory. The precariousness of primordial relationships resulted in a construction of subjectivity marked by abandonment and helplessness. The understanding of the subject condition and his relation with the object drug reveals a psychic pain that meets, in the anesthesia offered by the drug, a coping strategy. It was found that the intensity of the early experiences in life, and not psychic elaborated, meet, as a form of discharge, the path of the act. The observed psychic fragility reaffirmed the necessity for an expansion of strategies of dealing with drug addiction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite being in close contact with one another, the Clinical area and the Psychological Evaluation one are not always harmoniously related. The knowledge produced by both of them is often contradictory. The present paper deals with one of these situations which refers to the diagnosis of a patient who speaks with a stutter. Although the Psychological Evaluation claims that the use of oral techniques with such patients is inadequate, the Clinical one has revealed the harm caused to them when they are prevented from speaking. The evaluation of a patient who is not fluent is presented - it has been carried out through an interview and a Drawings-Stories Procedure. The data have been analyzed under a psychoanalytical reference which has been added to studies that refer to the subjective dimension of the stutter. The evaluation has revealed contents related to the patient's psychic condition such as suffering and pathological benefits. There has been a debate over the limitations and potentialities of the Drawings-Stories Procedure in the understanding of the subjectivity of the person who is not fluent, as well as the therapeutic benefits with which it has provided the patient. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper derives from a psychoanalytical piece of research about an important clinical phenomenon that articulates depersonalization and derealization, which, according to Winnicott, are known as the "inability to feel alive and real". This is a typical phenomenon found in borderline and psychotic clinical profiles, the manifestations of which have demonstrated to be frequent in contemporary society. The analytical object in use was a psychoanalytical narrative employed in the movie picture known as Fight club - understood as a fictional human event. Seven diverse fields were created/found as parts of a greater field - "to be or not to be". By establishing a dialogue with Winnicott and Bauman, it was possible to conclude that the clinical issue in question is intimately concerned with the new forms of organizing the liquid-modern society, which paradoxically develop a certain type of individualism while they make it hard to personal growth in a sense of developing one's ability of feeling alive, real and able to provide spontaneous gesture to transform the self and the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since Freud, the body assumes a new configuration and sexuality opens up a promising theoretical field of inquiry into the brain. When combined with the theory of self organizing systems, the Freudian concept of drive becomes a useful conceptual tool in Cognitive Science to study the human mind and cognition. This paper focuses on the contributions of the psychoanalytic knowledge and identifies the critical points, limits and possibilities of a potential interdisciplinary in the field of the philosophy of the mind. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When bone marrow transplant (BMT) is added to the diagnosis of cancer, patients can experience fear, lack of understanding and insecurity. This project's aim was to identify aspects of the emotional status of 7 patients with bone marrow transplant indication. TAT cards 1 and 11 were applied in order to search for the latent aspects in the patients, and a semi-directed interview was then conducted. The use of a psychoanalytica qualitative and referencial methodology was chosen, with the estabilishment of categories encompassing the main aspects brought out in the interviews. TAT cards were analysed separately. It is noticed that fear and hope were a constant in the patient's reports, reinforcing the results from international papers. In conclusion, the pre-transplantation period is a moment of ambiguity and confusion, due to the emotional burden to which the patient is subjected. Thus, psychological counseling is fundamental to an adequate confrontation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we present facts and reflections based on the experience of over ten years in the supervision of the first psychological assessment performed by undergraduate students. Through clinical illustrations we state that the student's anxiety and phantasies - regarding both the work with the client and the supervision - play an important role in the clinical learning in a psychoanalytical approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to reflect on questions about the interpretation on the psychotherapy context. The significance given to the speech and secondary processes by psychoanalysis and the relevance of images and primary processes to analytical psychology. This discussion was based on texts of a Freudian author (HERRMANN,1991), JUNG (1986,199 1) and Jungians authors (HILLMAN,1989; MIGLIORINI, 1993; WEINRIB, 1993.) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]