Archives - 2^nd Congress - Topics

Metapsychology

• Transmission (its methods, its objects), heredity, heritage, genealogical envelope, family memory
• Transgenerational trauma. Its specificity compared to the recent trauma
• Debt and gift
• Secret of family
• Unnameable, inexpressible, unthinkable and other "containers of negative"
• Object relations. Intergenerational, objects rough, objects of relation
• Crypt and phantom
• Alienating identification
• Secret, perverse or narcissistic pacts; psychotic contract, unconscious alliances
  Grandparents
• Family bonds. Link with the ancestor and the other family links
• Integration of the Law, the super-ego. Ideals. Symbolic order. Primal fantasies
• Family myths and theirs genealogical origin. Family ideology and mentality
• Genealogies in the social myths and the literature (the family saga)
• Contributions of historians, anthropologists, sociologists

Clinical situations of couples and families

• Crises, conflicts, violence, abuse
• Pathology of the early childhood
• Disturb training, phobias
• Adolescence: pathological behaviour
• Couples: choice of the partner, collusion, disagreement, divorce, re-marriage
• “New families”
• Psychotic pathology
• Somatic disease
• Disease of mourning
• Shame and culpability in the family
• Temporality: repetitions, coincidences of dates, ages between the members of various generations; birthdays
• Ancestors in psychiatric institutions
• Ancestors in training institutes
• Social trauma. Effect on the following generations

Technical approach

• Genogramme, family tree, spatiogramme, socio-genogramme
• Therapeutic failure, impasse
• Collective transference, counter-transference, co-therapy, inter-transference, mutual supervision
• Techniques: reading, tale, play, family and couple psychodrama, drawing of the family and house
• PCFT and other currents: contextual, genealogical therapies
• Therapy of several families and couples

Research