Clinical territories

ABSTRACT

The author reflects on the extension of the psychoanalytic clinic, showing how ideas, studies and discussions built up over several years have led various Latin American groups to put their thinking into action, by allowing themselves to be penetrated by issues of the city and directly relate to diverse territories. These studies have shown how psychoanalytic actions can take place in various types of encounter between subjectivities, highlighting their challenges as well as their effectiveness and power.

KEYWORDS:

• Extended clinic
• community
• institution
• psychoanalytic listening
• narrative

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

1 Nosek, L. ( April, 2016). Cuerpo: entre sombras y silueta. Oral communication presented at the VII Symposium on Community and Culture at FEPAL: corpo do corpo. São Paulo: SBPSP.

2 The XXVIIth Brazilian Congress of Psychoanalysis, promoted by the Brazilian Federation of Psychoanalysis (FEBRAPSI), was held in Belo Horizonte (Minas Gerais, Brazil), from 19 to 22 June 2019.

3 The online forum “Open-Air Psychoanalysis”, from November 2015 to February 2016, coordinated by Eduardo Martins and Rodrigo Lage, was attended by numerous Latin American psychoanalysts. More than 6000 accesses were registered.

4 Fernando Orduz, president of FEPAL (2014–2016); Magda Khouri, director of Community and Culture; Oswaldo Ferreira Leite, alternate. Committee: Ana Maria Brias Silveira, Berta Azevedo, Cintia Buschinelli, Eduardo Martins, Eliana Caligiuri, Maria do Carmo Davids do Amaral, Raquel Ajzenberg, Raya Angel Zonana, Rita Andréa Alcântara de Mello and Rodrigo Lage. The title of the project was given by Cintia Buschinelli.

5 Bernardo Tanis, president of SBPSP (2017–2020); Magda Khouri, director of Community Service; coordinators of sectors Partnerships and Agreements, Silvia Bracco, Centre for Psychoanalytic Treatment, Susana Muszkat, and Courses and Conferences, Heloisa Ditolvo.

6 UNAS (União de Núcleos, Associações de Moradores de Heliópolis e Região) is a non-profit organization that emerged in 1978 as a committee of residents of the Heliopolis favela, who were fighting for the right to housing and land ownership. It impacts about 10,000 people directly every month through 52 social projects.

7 Frontosis is a word invented by educator Caroline. The suffix -osis refers to a disease or pathological alteration (e.g. psychosis). Frontosis has the meaning of always being on the front line.

8 Oral communication by Fabio Herrmann in Fernanda Sofio's master's qualification: Therapeutic function hospital: where there is psychoanalysis. Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. São Paulo, June 9, 2006.