Description: A stimulating account of some of the key challenges found in psychoanalysis through a discussion of the Specificity initiative, a research method that examines how analysts work, associate, and reflect together in a group. It offers both a study of the work and an inquiry into the realities of psychoanalytic collaboration.
Brief description: Yvette Dorey is a psychopathologist and psychoanalyst certified by the French Psychoanalytic Association (APF). She has been a research psychologist (Val-de-Grace and Percy - joint publications on criteria for psychical selection) and a senior lecturer (Paris X University). Her work primarily addresses boundary issues, teaching, and transmission. She has translated several articles from English into French (Tchou), participated on reading committees, edited a book, and published articles (Dunod, Editions TDK, Evolution psychiatrique, Revue francaise de psychanalyse, Psychologie clinique, and others). She has been a member of Specificity since 2010. Serge Frisch is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Luxembourg. He has been a member of Specificity since 2006. Leopoldo Bleger, a training member of the French Psychoanalytic Association (APF), left Argentina in 1976 after completing his studies in medicine and psychiatry and now works in Paris. He has written texts on the work of Melanie Klein, on psychoanalysis in the Rio de la Plata region, and on methodological issues in psychoanalysis. His most recent book is Analyse en presence, analyse a distance. Paris: PUF, 2024. He has been a member of Specificity since 2006. Yvette Dorey is a psychopathologist and psychoanalyst certified by the French Psychoanalytic Association (APF). She has been a research psychologist (Val-de-Grace and Percy - joint publications on criteria for psychical selection) and a senior lecturer (Paris X University). Her work primarily addresses boundary issues, teaching, and transmission. She has translated several articles from English into French (Tchou), participated on reading committees, edited a book, and published articles (Dunod, Editions TDK, Evolution psychiatrique, Revue francaise de psychanalyse, Psychologie clinique, and others). She has been a member of Specificity since 2010. Serge Frisch is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Luxembourg and past president of the Belgium Psychoanalytic Society, a training and supervising analyst at the German Psychoanalytic Society, past president of the European Psychoanalytic Federation (EPF-FEP), and a member of the board of directors of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He has been a member of Specificity since 2006. Leopoldo Bleger, a training member of the French Psychoanalytic Association (APF), left Argentina in 1976 after completing his studies in medicine and psychiatry and now works in Paris. He has written texts on the work of Melanie Klein, on psychoanalysis in the Rio de la Plata region, and on methodological issues in psychoanalysis. His most recent book is Analyse en presence, analyse a distance. Paris: PUF, 2024. He has been a member of Specificity since 2006.