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Couple dynamics and adoptive parent relationships

16 November 2022/in Groups for Adoptions, Laura Dallanegra, Lidia Vitalini/by @dmin

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This paper aims to explore some of the aspects involved in the dynamics of the interaction between narcissism and object investment. We know that the oscillation between these two psychic configurations influences the subject and his relations: the dynamics of his couple and his role as a parent. We feel that within the emotional complexity of adoptive parenthood, primary importance must be given to the “adoption” of aspects of the self and of the relationship that have been split off and projected outside that self and relationship.
We describe some episodes from a couple psychotherapy treatment using the concept of the analytic field, with reference to developments suggested by post-Bionian models in individual psychoanalysis. We refer to the field that is created in a joint session where the different subjects come together, forming a continuous Read more

The encounter with the other in the couple relationship: the area of mutuality

9 July 2012/in Giulio Cesare Zavattini, Patrizia Velotti, The place of the Unconscious is not only the individual mind comparison beetween models/by @dmin

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The thesis we have followed in this paper intends to highlight the features of the “couple” as one of the privileged places from which to look at the modes the partners use, following frequent unconscious regulation processes, to give rise to a third dimension, a field, their very relation that in its being a shared object at the border between the self and the other represents a third regulation pole that can be acknowledged as their Read more