The psychoanalyst’s toolbox for dealing with couple and family relationships

Journal title INTERAZIONI
Author/s Diana Norsa
Publishing Year 2025 Issue 2025/2
Language Italian Pages 17 P. 115-131 File size 89 KB
DOI 10.3280/INT2025-002012
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Psychoanalysis is a discipline in motion: patients’ responses provide new insights that lead to new models. This article aims to highlight the progress that the setting with families and couples is making on issues such as the extension of the unconscious (Freud) and the present and past unconscious (Sandler). The clinical case exemplifies the use of the child’s play in the session as a metaphor capable of triggering a process of elaboration in the couple.

Keywords: couple and family links, transference and countertransference, setting, play as metaphor, extended unconscious, present and past unconscious.

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Diana Norsa, La cassetta degli attrezzi dello psicoanalista alle prese con i legami di coppia e di famiglia in "INTERAZIONI" 2/2025, pp 115-131, DOI: 10.3280/INT2025-002012