Book, First Interview in Psychoanalysis, A 1/04[LS]

Maud Mannoni's book is a testimonial document, accessible to many. He makes the reader cooperate in the first measure taken by a person who comes for consultation, the object of the consultation being themselves or a loved one, and motivated by a request for help from the psychoanalyst.Each reader, thanks to the author's art , you will feel more or less involved, initiated into a new and dynamic way of thinking about human behavior and its excesses. He will understand what is meant when he says, speaking of the psychoanalyst, that what makes his specificity is his receptivity, his “listening”. He will see people who came, knowing only who they were addressing, sent by their doctor, by the educator, by someone who knows the difficulties they are in, but who cannot help them directly; These people, in the presence of a psychoanalyst, begin to speak as they would speak to any individual and, however, the psychoanalyst's only way of listening, listening in the full sense of the term, causes their speech to change, to acquire a new meaning. new to their own ears. Effectively, psychoanalysts, through their technique, are oriented towards the discovery and cure of an instrumental deficiency. They respond at the level of the manifested phenomenon, the symptom: parental anguish, academic or character disturbance of the child, by using specific relief devices, recommending therapeutic or corrective measures aimed at re-education. Difficult, alienated, morally endangered, rebellious children to any treatment, who are you, who are your parents? the author asks herself, inviting the reader: follow me, this world is also yours. In the sequence, there is the testimony of a long experience of psychoanalytic consultations and the world exposed there reveals truths about which society tends to remain silent.