1st Edition

Lost to Desire The École Psychosomatique de Paris and its Encounter With Patients Who Do Not Thrive

By Wolfgang Lassmann Copyright 2022
332 Pages
by Routledge

332 Pages
by Routledge

332 Pages
by Routledge

This book covers the work of psychoanalysts in post WWII France with patients beset by somatic problems with little manifest fantasy life, and how their concept of opératoire continues to inform the theory and practice of working with patients in crisis. The author explores what the new concept has elicited in a community of practitioners  – close to the École Psychosomatique de Paris... Read more

1. Fragments of a debate  2. Background  3. Foundations 1: Pierre Marty  4. Foundations 2: Michel Fain with Denise Braunschweig  5.  Basic Mechanisms 1: Nicos Nicolaïdis  6. Basic Mechanisms 2: Gérard Szwec  7. Configurations 1: Anna Potamianou  8. Configurations 2: Jean Benjamin Stora  9.  Inquiries: The work of César and Sára Botella  10. Second thoughts: Claude Smadja  11. Entanglements: The forgotten pre-history of the opératoire  12. Indispensable extensions: Christophe Dejours  13. Bridges: Jacques Press Conclusion

Biography

Wolfgang Lassmann is a psychoanalyst in private practice, Vienna, and a member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association.