Introduction to Psychoanalytic Process

O’Neill finds in the French analyst Jean-Luc Donnet’s conceptualisation of the ‘analytic site’, and the way that the ‘quasi-autonomous’ psychoanalytic process is set in motion, a model that has the potential for ‘generalised application across widely differing spheres of practice’ (p.

Within the psychoanalytic process, the focus of empathic inquiry will now be informed by a radical contextual sensibility with the recognition that all dyadic experience cannot be understood outside of the contribution of the wider historical/cultural world within which that experience is embedded, a history that will inevitably include various forms of traumatizing violence.

ABSTRACT Unconscious communication, like transference-countertransference, is ubiquitous in life and in the psychoanalytic process.

However, when we engage in psychoanalytic practice via modern means of telecommunication, we need to examine if the fundamental tenets of the psychoanalytic process are preserved.

This kind of discourse places a greater responsibility on the individual analyst to both develop and articulate a personal core model, but ultimately, I believe, it allows us to learn more from one another and to widen our understanding of the unconscious and of psychoanalytic processes.

ABSTRACT This article is devoted to the topic of the conditions for a constructive interdisciplinary dialogue between psychoanalytic theory and practice and research in mind disciplines neighbouring psychoanalysis applied to the concept of psychoanalytic process.

Despite the reality that much psychoanalytic meta-theory was generated by theorists treating children, in addition to the contributions made by infant researchers and developmentalists, psychoanalysis has yet to fully attend to these domains of clinical work and research especially as regards their implication for the psychoanalytic process (commonly referred to as “technique”).

The concurrent parallel group session can provide a supplement and extension of the psychoanalytic process.

It also highlights both large and smaller studies, using qualitative, quantitative and mixed methodologies, which investigate a wide range of aspects of the psychoanalytic process.