Jahrbuch der Psychoanalyse

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...

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 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 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 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...

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...

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...