Book, Your Favorite Patient: 17 Extraordinary Psycho Stories[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. A simple argument results in an extraordinary book. Which clinical case had a transformative impact on your understanding or practice of psychoanalysis? Posing the question to seventeen prestigious psychoanalysts in France, journalist Violaine de Montclos uncovers, in short and dense stories, the scope, coherence and intensity of psychoanalyst-patient relationships and the current nature of psychoanalytic knowledge. This book, like psychoanalysis, is a product of the art of encounter. A meeting, coming face to face with another, is always a starting point. Even more so when it happens between analyst and analysand. Here, seventeen renowned and experienced French psychoanalysts expose and show the power that meetings have to initiate transformations in the lives of those they meet. Here, it is not just a question of revealing childhood traumas or abuse, of overcoming infertility and crime, of escaping self-imposed traps, but above all of revealing the all-too-human fragility of the analyst, as the guide who realizes that the path he what lies ahead is, also for him, unknown. There is transference, of course, in this relationship. But there is also mirroring, reflections, reflection. There is also a third side to these narratives, a second parallel encounter, that of the journalist with the therapists, with each of those who describe Her Favorite Patient to her, the one who made him another analyst and, sometimes, another person. Violaine de Montclos thus inverts the usual flow of words in the office and, as a skilled narrator, transforms these (in)confidences into moments of reflection for those who read them too.