Book, Your Favorite Patient: 17 Extraordinary Stories of Psycho[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. A simple argument results in an extraordinary book. Which clinical case had a transformative impact on your understanding or your practice of psychoanalysis? Pose a questão para dezessete psicanalistas de prestígio na França, a jornalista Violaine de Montclos descortina em histórias curtas e densas, o alcance, a coerência e a intensidade das relações psicanalista-paciente e a atualidade do saber psicanalítico. This book, like psychoanalysis, is a product of the art of encounter. An encounter, placing oneself face to face with another, is always a starting point. Even more so when it occurs between analyst and analysand. Here, seventeen renowned and experienced French psychoanalysts expose and show the power that encounters have to initiate transformations in the lives of those who meet. Here, it is not just about unveiling childhood traumas or abuses, about overcoming infertility and crime, about escaping self-imposed traps, but above all about revealing the all-too-human fragility of the analyst, as the guide who realizes that the path ahead is, also for him, unknown. There is transfer, of course, in that relationship. But there is also mirroring, reflections, reflection. There is, still, a third side to these narratives, a second parallel encounter, that of the journalist with the therapists, with each of those who describe to her Their Favorite Patient, the one who made them another analyst and, sometimes, another person. Violaine de Montclos thus inverts the usual flow of words in the office and, a skilled narrator, transforms these (in)confidences in moments of reflection also for those who read them.