Volume 66 (2025), Edition 2

In French psychoanalytic writing, the term ›concrete thinking‹ is rarely used in connection to thought disorders in schizophrenia, likely because ›abstract thinking‹ is also considered characteristic of these pathologies. The term...

It is precisely in »crises of contact« (Will, 2023) that the analytic session gives rise to pronounced, sometimes even rousing and enveloping reveries, which are often confusing – but can be of great value for restoring contact between analyst...

It is in the realm of language where much of the psychoanalytic work with adults that we describe with Winnicott as playing together takes place. This is where the subjective inner reality and the objective outer reality of patient and analyst come...

This text will both trace the emergence and history of the concept of ›operational thinking‹ (pensée operatoire), which was first described in 1962 by the psychosomatic doctors of the Paris School, and the conceptual and treatment-related...

This article reflects on the working methods and results of the EPF Working Party on Psychosomatics from the author’s personal perspective. Through the lens of the sociology of professions, this paper examines a group of analysts, heterogeneous in...

This paper examines how an analyst’s conscious or unconscious overreliance on established psychoanalytic theory can lead to ›concretization‹ in the analytic field. Such concretization impedes the emergence of realizations and hinders...

The paper, stemming from clinical challenges in therapeutic encounters with challenging courses of development, introduces a psychoanalytic perspective on the multi-dimensional archaic proto-body-scheme. It offers a novel way of mapping the...

This work relates Ulrich Moser’s pioneering work on cognitive-affective processes to current approaches in Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and machine psychology. Building on Moser’s psychoanalytic models, in particular his insights into...

This essay examines the structural and conceptual differences between poetic intelligence and the linguistic abilities of artificial intelligence, in particular so-called Large Language Models (LLMs). Our starting point is the thesis that poetic...

This work deals with the question of whether and how the awareness of mortality is reflected in dreams of old age. Based on the dream theory of Moser & von Zeppelin, the author examines his own dream diary and focusses on a typical dream type in...