EULAPS courses are aimed at health professionals interested in psychoanalytic theory and especially its application to clinical practice with patients who suffer from somatic diseases and body symptoms.
Its integrative and clinical orientation allows you to include the body into the professional training in the “psy” area.
As the conception of the unconscious as conceived by Sigmund Freud has been underestimated in the field of psychosomatics and psychotherapy of patients with somatic pathologies, we re-establish it to its place, taking into account the latest modern discoveries in neuroscience and the contemporary updates in psychoanalytic theory and practice.
The following topics are developed:
- The study of the body – mind relationship, the representation process of the biological into the psychic apparatus and the progressive interaction between both of them. The relationship between biological body, erogenous body, scheme and body image.
- The influence caused by the interaction parents-baby-family history in the psychosomatic development
- The role of the body, the body schema alterations and the corporal symptoms, in the different psychopathological disorders. The relationship between hysteria, hypochondriasis, self-inflicted injuries and psychosomatics.
- Post-Freudian authors contributions to the psychosomatics theory and practice. The author’s works are studied by stimulating a critical vision and confronting concepts, so as to avoid repetition of clichés or simplifications, and narrow or tautological conceptions.
EULAPS represents a new school of psychoanalysis applied to psychosomatics. It gives training to professionals who assist people suffering from somatic diseases.
1. Psychoanalytic understanding of a corporeality, Hysteria and psychosomatics.
Discussion about the concept of “organ speech”.
[4 classes] J Ulnik.
2. History of psychosomatic approach in psychoanalysis (an overview):
S. Freud*, G. Groddeck*, S. Ferenczi**, F Deutch**, O Fenichel*, M Mahler**, F Alexander F Dunbar*, M Hirsch**, M Schur*, A Mitscherlich, P Marty*, P Sifneos*, J McDougall**, D Anzieu*, A Green*, D Winnicott*, P Fonagy**. L Chiozza*, D Liberman*, Ch Dejours*, J Nasio*, J Lacan***, W Bion*.
[12 classes] *J Ulnik(6), **M Hirsch(4), ***L Peskin(2).
3. Child development, Body image and early disturbances of mental health.
Bases of children’s psychoanalysis.
[8 classes] C Schejtman(6) R Rodulfo (2)
4.
4.1. Epistemology of psychoanalysis: the specificity of psychoanalytic method as art of interpretation.
4.2. Philosophy and psychoanalysis of the body:
4.2a the body as a symbolic structure, that is, at the same time subject and object;
4.2b the body as a work of art, that is, as a reflexive structure which has implications for the relationship between the self and the other.
4.3. Body, psychoanalysis and art: creativity, destructiveness and culture.
4.4. Aesthetic perspective for the clinical practice with the psychosomatic manifestations.
[5 classes] J. Frayze-Pereira.
5. The body and the law.
[1 class] P Montagna.
6. Body as an object of psychoanalysis.
The body language in therapy.
[2 classes] M Hirsch.
7. Psychosomatic transference and counter-transference*.
Phenomenon of transgenerational transference and its role in particular psychosomatic functioning**. The horror and rejection about the somatic***
[3 classes] *P Montagna(1) **J Ulnik (1) ***J Rodado (1)
8. Affects in psychoanalysis (based on S Freud and A Green).
Body-equivalents of affects. Mourning and psychosomatics. Archaic affects (a pavor, alarm, shame, rage, helplessness) and their role in development, body image and the sense of identity. Psychosomatic implications: a continuum – psychosomatic disorders – functional disorders – hypochondria.
[6 classes] J Ulnik (3), M Hirsch(3)
9. Modifications of the psychoanalytical setting for patients with early disturbances, psychosomatic diseases and consequences of traumatic experience**.
Doctor-patient communication*. Cumulative life course impairment*. Individual psychoanalysis**. Group psychoanalysis with somatic patients**
[4 classes] *D Linder; (2) **J Ulnik (2).
10. Psychosomatic approach in: oncology; children; organ transplantation, gynecology, dermatology, cardiology, neurology, classical psychosomatic diseases: asthma, gastroenterological syndromes.
(This topic will be about case reports, not a general theory of each specialty)
[10 classes]
- To identify, know and apply Freudian and post-Freudian concepts to the psychosomatic clinic that concern the body, considering the body evolutionary changes, the symptoms manifested in it, and the consequences of each disease.
- To know the current psychosomatic mainstream. To analyze the main concepts developing an integrating criterion and at the same time a critical look of the different trends. Then, to be able to apply this knowledge to each particular case, and to understand the intertwining of discourses in the institutional framework.
- To learn how to work in teams together with general practitioners and specialists.
- To acquire a practical and clinical expertise, being able to identify in real clinical cases the unconscious dynamisms that are related to the somatic disease. To do this, during the course the practitioners will always work with clinical examples: clinical vignettes, clinical histories, videos and films.
At the end of the course, the student will get:
- Knowledge and professional skills to carry out a psychodynamic diagnosis, prognosis and follow-up of patients with psychosomatic diseases.
- Ability to treat somatic diseases from a psychological point of view and in a fluid and active interdisciplinary exchange with general practitioners and specialists.
- Knowledge and practical implementation of the psychoanalysis’ contributions in the field of psychosomatics.
- Ability to avoid serious consequences in the evolution of diseases, by diagnosing psychological, conscious and unconscious factors that trigger, predispose or make them worse.
- Ability to listen to the patient and his family, as well as the intervening medical team considering the defense mechanisms and unconscious factors.
- Ability to integrate people’s life history– including their dreams – with the somatic suffering that afflicts them.
- Jorge C. Ulnik (Argentina);
- Matias Hirsch (Alemania);
- Joao Frayze Pereira (Brazil);
- Plinio Montagna (Brazil);
- Michael Dennis Linder (Italy);
- Clara Schejtman (Argentina);
- Ricardo Rodulfo (Argentina);
- Leonardo Peskin (Argentina);
- Juan Rodado Martinez (Spain)
- Juan Carlos Stagnaro (Argentina);
- Sofía Vilar Soares (Portugal);
- Rubén Zukerfeld (Argentina);
- Andrea Mendel (Argentina);
- Perla Cativa Tolosa (Argentina);
- Liliana Castro (Argentina);
Total: 55 classes and 17 supervisions.
2 years of 9 month each.
Payment methods in Argentina
- Deposit / bank transfer.
International payment methods
- PayPal.
- Western Union.
To date, the following short courses have been offered:
- From body to symbol. Psychosomatic theory of Dr. David Liberman. Lic. Liliana Castro. (October 2020) [4 classes].
- Fertility and infertility: a psychosomatic approach. Lic. Patricia Alkolombre. (November 2020) [4 classes].
- Neuropsychoanalysis. Dr. Rafael Groisman. (December 2020) [4 classes].
- Child psychoanalysis with focus on body-related issues. Prof. Clara Schejtman (January 2021) [4 lectures] Psychosomatics and oncology.
- Psychosomatics and oncology. Prof. Dr. Jorge Ulnik (February 2021) [4 lectures]
- Introduction to Lacanian psychoanalysis and its approach to psychosomatics. Dr. Leonardo Peskin (March/April 2021) [7 classes].
Next programmed courses:
- Gender, HIV and gender diversity. Lic. Perla Cativa Tolosa.
- Skin diseases in children. Lic. Eugenia Melamed.
- Sami Ali’s psychosomatic school. Lic. Alicia Ponte y Lic. Alejandra Fernández.
- Eating disorders. Lic Rubén Zukerfeld.
- Vulnerability and resilience in psychosomatics. Lic. Rubén Zukerfeld.
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