Jahrbuch der Psychoanalyse

Wilfred Bion’s works are considered to be difficult, obscure and abstract; reading them is seen as a strenuous, demanding task. This paper argues that one reason for this perception lies in Erika Krejci’s translations of Bion’s key texts,...

Since Descartes until the second half of nineteenth century the mind has been thought as an unextended substance occupying, no place, no space. This notion prevented for more than two centuries the possibility of any science of mind. It has changed...

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...