Linked Self in Psychoanalysis

Lea S. de Setton, PhD, is a Member of the International Psycho analytical Association and of the faculty, of the International Psychotherapy Institute and International Institute for Psychoanalytic Training, Washington, DC. She is the former Chair of IPI-Panama, a faculty member of the Doctorate Program, Catholic University (USMA), Panama, and a Board member of the International Associa tion for Family and Couple Psychoanalysis. She is a psychologist, psychoanalyst, and psychotherapist in private practice with individuals, couples, and families in Panama. Roberto Losso, MD, is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, and a member of the Argentine Psychoanalytical Association and the International Psychoanalytical Association. He is also the Consulting Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires; a member of the Coordinating Committee of the Family and Couple at FEPAL (Latin American Psychoanalytic Federation); Clinical Professor of Family and Couple Therapy, John F. Kennedy University; and a board member of the International Association of Family and Couple Psychoanalysis. He is also the author of 'Family Psychoanalysis: Theoretical and Technical Considerations', as well as several texts on his personal experience with Pichon Riviere. David E. Scharff, MD, is Chair of the International Psychoanalytical Association's Committee on Family and Couple Psychoanalysis; Chair of the Board, Founder and former Director of the International Psychotherapy Institute, Washington, DC; and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal 'Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China', and author and editor of numerous books and articles, including 'The Sexual Relationship', 'Object Relations Family Therapy' (with Jill Savege Scharff), 'Object Relations Couple Therapy', 'The Interpersonal Unconscious', and 'Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy'.

'Pichon Riviere's important work is finally available to the English-speaking reader. It is, together with the work of Klein, Fairbairn, and Winnicott, a fundamental contribution to contemporary psychoanalytic object relations theory. Pichon Riviere's original concept of "link" explains the relational linkages between self and object representations, and expands the concept of the link to the description of unconscious intrapsychic group formations. The present collection of his writings describes the relation between these intrapsychic group structures and the individual's unconscious relations to the concentric cycles of family and social dynamics, and provides an integrating frame for the psychoanalytic exploration of groups and social organizations. The complementary chapters by distinguished contemporary authors influenced by Pichon Riviere included in this volume make for an actualized, stimulating overview of this important theoretician.'-Otto Kernberg, past president of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)'It is indeed fortunate that Roberto Losso, Lea S. de Setton, and David E. Scharff have undertaken this project of illuminating the original psychoanalytical productions of Pichon Riviere and of displaying his clinical and theoretical proposals to English-speaking psychoanalysts. At a time when psychoanalysis was focused on the internal world, Pichon Riviere proposed a social psychology for psychoanalysis, emphasizing the necessary links between internal and external worlds. Pichon Riviere's original and multi-causal line of thought is demonstrated both by his own writing and by the contemporary commentaries gathered brilliantly by the editors in this important volume.'- Leticia Glocer Fiorini, MD, past president of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association and former Chair of the Publications Committee of the IPA

• SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD Enrique Pichon Rivière: A Pioneer of the Link -- PREFACE A true master -- INTRODUCTION Enrique Pichon Rivière: his life and work -- Pichon Rivière's Writings -- New problems facing psychiatry -- Neurosis and psychosis: a theory of illness -- Some observations on the transference in psychotic patients -- Operative group technique* 4 -- Family groups: an operative approach 7 , 8 -- The treatment of family groups: collective psychotherapy -- The theory of the link -- The uncanny (sinister) in the life and work of the Count of Lautréamont* 9 -- Some essays concerning everyday life -- Essays on Pichon Rivière's Theory and Clinical Practice -- Enrique Pichon Rivière: a brilliant trailblazer -- Effects of the transmission of Enrique Pichon Rivière's ideas -- Meeting Pichon Rivière -- Pichon Rivière's theory -- The legacy of Pichon Rivière -- The long river of Enrique Pichon Rivière -- Pichon Rivière and object relations theory -- A glossary of Pichon Rivière's concepts