Stoppage of time in schizophrenia: Similarities to the field of war trauma

  • Following the tracks of the pioneers of the psychoanalysis of schizophrenia, who discovered the singularity of transference in such cases and, during the wars, among traumatized soldiers, we came to the conclusion that trauma and psychosis belong to the same field of destruction of the symbolic order, that is, an area of death, where time stops, where there is no other, except for a ruthless agency that erases truth and trust. In that field, patient and analyst are co-researchers, exploring and challenging the possible existence of a reliable other as a positive outcome. Such an event >happens in a few sessions< – as described by the late Martin Cooperman, psychoanalyst at the Austen Riggs Center and veteran of the Pacific wars – >but it takes many years to get there.< We will give examples of some critical sessions, when time starts to flow again. They take place at the crossroad of the patient's and of the analyst's story with the catastrophes of History.

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Author:Francoise Davoine, Jean-Max Gaudillière
Parent Title (English):International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 24 (No. 2, 2016), pp. 104-109.
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2016
Release Date:2016/09/29
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IdNo:Davoine_F_Gaudilliere_J-M_2016
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