@article{GojmandeMillanMillan, author = {Gojman de Mill{\´a}n, Sonia and Mill{\´a}n, Salvador}, title = {Mental collapse as "disorganized attachment": A dynamic understanding for clinicians}, series = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 3, 2019), pp. 173-179.}, journal = {International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 28 (No. 3, 2019), pp. 173-179.}, abstract = {Unresolved loss and unresolved trauma in adult mothers, and the commonly disorganized attachment pattern developed by their infants, have been repeatedly reported in longitudinal research literature as a crucial correlate or precedent of severe pathology. We describe and illustrate how unresolved loss and unresolved trauma are manifested in verbatim-transcribed language and how they are to be detected, so that psychoanalysts and clinicians in general are able to distinguish them and understand how such >states of mind< evidence the process of fragmentation they involve. We follow each example with a resolved transcript so it can be contrasted with a nonresolved case. We then describe excerpts of a taped >disorganized infant< - an example of infants who are usually babies of unresolved mothers, as shown during the Adult Attachment Interview. The analyst's ability to identify and understand these >states of mind< and the subsequent sensitive reflection on the transcendental role of primary traumatic relations, which are involved in fear and the destructive dynamics of mental fragmentation - as seen in empirical research on attachment - can facilitate a resourceful integrative analytic scrutiny of the processes gone through by patients, and encourage the discovery of alternatives for working through the disturbing experience.}, language = {en} } @article{GojmandeMillanMillan, author = {Gojman de Mill{\´a}n, Sonia and Mill{\´a}n, Salvador}, title = {Understanding Social Motivation for Encouraging Children's Development. Social Character Studies in Mexico}, series = {R. Funk and N. McLaughlin (Eds.), Towards a Human Science. The Relevance of Erich Fromm for Today, Giessen (Psychosozial-Verlag) 2015, pp. 1499-158.}, journal = {R. Funk and N. McLaughlin (Eds.), Towards a Human Science. The Relevance of Erich Fromm for Today, Giessen (Psychosozial-Verlag) 2015, pp. 1499-158.}, abstract = {A group of psychoanalysts led the Seminario de Sociopsicoan{\´a}lisis to broaden their clinical perspective gained through working with patients in the setting of a private practice. In this paper we describe participatory action research initiated by a community. We started by interviewing impoverished and economically disadvantaged children, first from a miner's village and later on from a center for children living in the streets. A study on Attachment and Social Character of mothers and children as well as the systematic appraisal of the unconscious motivations in the individual's responses to the Social Interpretative Questionnaire are presented. We strive to bring the findings of our social character studies back to the communities themselves. Our purpose is to support or foster possibilities for initiating participatory community-based action projects, aimed at transforming the quality of life and to confront the difficulties and obstacles that emerge on the path to change; furthermore we hope that our research will help to stimulate the development of childcare health policies.}, language = {en} }