The days after the beginning of the war. Transference effects and change in the setting

Journal title INTERAZIONI
Author/s Cristina Calarasanu
Publishing Year 2022 Issue 2022/2
Language Italian Pages 11 P. 57-67 File size 176 KB
DOI 10.3280/INT2022-002004
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I will try to address in this article how this unexpected external context immediately, al-most palpably, affected the usual setting of the sessions and generated very intense counter-transference effects. The urgency and traumatic nature of its unpredictable effects produced a very pronounced regressive movement, unleashing with uncontrollable force a death anxiety and bringing into play archaic defenses and an increased risk of acting out. The relational mode in which the analyst, caught once again in a situation symmetrical to that of the patients, sought to contain and propose a fragile balance between a threatening reality and a frightening inner world on which to collapse.

Keywords: war, transference effects, frame, relational analyst, traumatic event.

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Cristina Calarasanu, I giorni dopo l’inizio della guerra. Effetti transferali e cambiamento nel setting in "INTERAZIONI" 2/2022, pp 57-67, DOI: 10.3280/INT2022-002004