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Area of Science:

  • Psychoanalysis
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Psychodynamic Research

Background:

  • Initial psychoanalytic interviews involve potent unconscious dynamics.
  • These dynamics generate significant anxiety and defenses in both patients and analysts.
  • Group dynamics within workshops and research teams also reflect these anxieties.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the unconscious dynamics present in the first interviews of psychoanalysis.
  • To understand how anxieties and defenses are transmitted within clinical research groups.
  • To examine the role of methodology in managing and elaborating reactions in psychoanalytic research.

Main Methods:

  • Qualitative clinical study involving preliminary interviews.
  • Observation of group dynamics in clinical workshops and research teams.
  • Analysis of 'session residues' and their impact on group anxiety and defenses.

Main Results:

  • Unconscious dynamics in initial interviews are exceptionally powerful, eliciting deep anxieties and defenses.
  • Anxieties and defenses are communicated to groups via unelaborated 'session residues'.
  • These residues provoke further anxiety and defense mechanisms within the groups.

Conclusions:

  • Findings enhance understanding of first interviews in psychoanalysis.
  • The study raises questions about managing the unknown in psychoanalytic research.
  • Clinical research methods can serve to contain and facilitate elaboration of group reactions, rather than merely avoiding anxiety.