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During the second week of April APdeBA has enjoyed the visit of Anna Nicolo,
from the Italian Society, who has come to Buenos Aires thanks to the support of
CAPSA. The programme has been very intensive and involved different kind of
activities and audiences.
On Tuesday 7th April, Doctor Nicolo supervised an adolescent case at our
society, presented by Florencia Tchina, a member of our society. The session
was chaired by Dr Carlos Moguillansky. The case included initial assessment
material and further sessions of the first year of treatment and we were able to
discuss around the importance of considering the specificity of psychoanalysis
with young patients, the importance of leading the adolescent to take
responsibility for his/her analytic treatment, involving the patient actively in the
analytic process while patient and analyst are both co-constructing the setting.
Nicolo ´s perspectives were clearly illustrated clinically since the patient
presented had had two previous consultations which had not succeeded. The
audience participated also sharing ideas in a very rich and respectful
atmosphere. The session was opened to other IPA and non IPA members, as
were all the activities of the programme.
In the evening she presented her paper “ Fantasie, fantasticherie e loro
evoluzioni negli adolescenti gravi e nei pazienti borderline”. This lecture took
place within the University Institute of Mental Health (IUSAM) and it was chaired
by Dr Rodolfo Moguillansky the Dean. In this case, Psychology students from
the Salvador University were part of the audience. It was a theoretical and
clinical paper which richly illustrated how to understand and deal with
breakdown during adolescence. Our visitor stressed the importance of
respecting defences in order to prevent worsening the psychotic
disorganization. She also underlined the need of distinguisihing between
breakdowns during adolescence from structural psychotic breakdowns during
adulthood and the need to consider adolescence as a new opportunity towards
development and re-organization. No less important was Nicolo ´s assumption
of the importance of seeing the family and widening the individual approach with
family treatment if needed.
On Wednesday morning we left our neighborhood towards San Isidro, an
important and extended suburb in the north of the city. Dr Nicolo ´s presentation
was organized and co-sponsored by the City Hall of San isidro, and the Mental
Health Center Ramon Carrillo (Public Hospital) where ApdeBA has been
carrying out an outreach programme for the last four years. This event was
addressed to non IPA members, mainly psychologists, psychotherapists, social
workers, students and educators from the northern area of the city. Dr Nicolo
was received personally by the Secretary of Childhood and Family of the City
Hall in a very warm and distinguished manner.
She presented a case of hers about a very disturbed 16 years old girl and we all
enjoyed her outstanding capacity to transmit vividley psychoanalytic core ideas
to non psychoanalysts, most of them working in a public setting with very ill
patients and social problems. We can say that this experience with more than
80 people attending, reinforced a possitive transference of the community
towards Psychoanalysis. People were really very thankful that we let them know
at their place Anna Nicolo and her excellent capacity to make contact with
them.
After a quick lunch we went back to APdeBA for the Conference on “The body
and pathological defences in adolescence” at the Infants and Adolescents
Department . Dr. Anna Nicolo presented her paper to a full audience. Senior
analysts, as well as training analysts and young students attended Nicolo’s
lecture. First, Dr. Nicolo explained some theoretical concepts regarding
psychopathology in adolescence. Then, she illustrated these ideas with a very
interesting clinical case. After her presentation the discussion was opened to
the public. Questions about the clinical case were raised, giving Dr. Nicolo the
opportunity to expand her ideas.
Approximately 60-80 people attended each of these activities.
During Thursday, Friday and Saturday the “First International Congress on
Psychoanalysis with Families and Couples – Perspectives around the world”,
co-jointly organized by the IPA and the FEPAL committees on Family and
Couple Psychoanalysis was held in Buenos Aires. More than 250 people
attended to the congress. On the Thursday pre congress working day Dr Nicolo
presented a very interesting case. With the help of a case history she illustrated
the importance of working on the biographical narrative shared during family
sessions, in particular on the traumatic memories that hamper the organization
of each member’s individual story, on the explicit and implicit memories that
may be unknown to some members but that affect the organization of the self.
The case presentation was interesting also for the use of variable settings
according to the family’s needs. The case was discussed by Janine Puget from
Buenos Aires and by Richard Zeitner from Washington DC during a 3 hours
panel that was co-chaired by Susana Muszkat from Sao Pablo and Silvia
Resnizky from Buenos Aires. The audience was very stimulated by these
presentations and participated actively in a very fruitful exchange of ideas which
enabled sharing different points of view which were expressed by colleagues
from all the IPA regions attending the conference. During the rest of the
conference Anna ´s spontaneous contributions were also very welcome.
Argentinian Malbec wine and empanadas were also a tasty ingredient during
our personal and affective encounter with her.
A wonderful experience that we all thank.
Reporting:
Monica Vorchheimer, Juliana Oelsner, Viviana Rosciani, Cristina Szekasy
(APdeBA)