A «now moment» in a psichotherapeutic process: «The game of the hands». Contributions from the microanalytic research in infants to the theories of intersubjectivity.
Keywords:
relación madre-bebé, intersubjetividad, investigación científica, material clínicoAbstract
In a psychotherapeutic framework of a session we privilege a “present moment” of 54 seconds. The aim is to deep into the mental
states of the patient (a 13 months old girl) her mother and the analyst through a short “hands play” in between the analyst and
the girl. We get in contact with the forces that are moving their psychisms. We wonder which of these forces are being activated
and moved in the psychotherapeutic relationship and the resistances with which they come across.
Different intersubjectivity theories (Meltzoff, Trevarthen, Stern, Gergely) based on infant research are considered in their
entailment with this clinical moment. It is in this implicit procedimental level that strong emotional
patterns of gazing, vocalizations, corporal posture are held. These patterns of interactions let us see how each one is influenced by
the other.
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