International Congress- Themes

IACFP BARCELONA CONGRESS
July 24-26, 2008

"Violence in contemporary couples and families:
a challenge for family psychoanalysis "

Possible topics for papers relating to the argument.

I) Clinical and psychopathological studies:

- Physical violence and its recurrent acts during therapy.
- Somatization as a psychic working out and primary symbolization of violence.
- Psychic violence: sexual and narcissistic perversion, incestuality, secrets, mental illness, psychoses, etc... What is the part of generational, what is the part of the genome in the imaginary, in reality?
- Difficult periods of life (perinatality, teenage, old age...) and violence: taking into account the present and the reminiscent.
- Societal violence (war, forced immigration, new and rapid cultural transformations, precariousness...) past and present: their effects on the family psychic groupality.
- Recomposed families and violence.
- Violence and brotherhood.
- Violence and structuring of the primary links.
- Attachment forms and violence.
- Violence in family psychoanalysis session, including verbal violence ("when saying is doing").
- Counter-transference, inter-transference, supervision and violence.
- Violence and care homes: repetition, diffraction and working out.
- Authority, regulator or source of violence?
- Violence and differences.
- The sex offender and his family.
- Neglect and abandonment of child.
- Violence in the diagnosis and care of sterile couples.

II) Theory :

- Violence, aggressiveness, destructiveness, vitality... what are the differences between those concepts?
- Concept of "fundamental violence" (Jean BERGERET).
- Violence of affects, passions.
- To re-affect acted violence.
- The violent act: a potential message in the meeting.
- Violence and primary distress,
- Denial of violence,
- Violence of denial and splitting,
- Violence of the denied coming back,
- Violence, transgenerational transmission and deferred actions,
- Authority process, super-ego, ideal ego in violent families,
- Function of collective ideals,
- Hallucinatory return of violence,
- Narcissistic perversion, moral sadomasochism, transference and paradoxical counter-transference
- Desire, sacrifice, and violence.
- Violence in lack of filial acknowledgment.
- Factors of resilience in family.
- Violence and subjectivation.

III) Technique and practice:

- Framework and fundamental rules of psychoanalysis put to the test by violence.
- Transforming psychic tracks of current and inherited violence.
- Containing violent acts during the session. Receptiveness of the analyst.
- Sharing of affects, empathy, intersubjectivity in the transformation of violence.
- Is the process of authority a dimension of the psychic treatment of violence?
- Figuration and representations of violence, raw objects, acts, feeling of body, dreams, fantasies, myths, drawings...
- Role of the play and psychodrama in couple and family therapy.
- Put the violence into a story: (re)construction, narrativity.
- In his turn can the psychoanalyst show violence at the session?
- Psychoanalysis of couple and family (CFP) and justice.

IV) Research:

• Multicultural research on family violence.

V) Training

• Place of family violence studies in psychiatry, psychology, victimology university courses.
• An approach to violence in PCF training.