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Chair: Margaret Ann Fitzpatrick Hanly
Presenters: Roberto Muñoz, Marina Altmann, Beatriz de Leon Bernardi, Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber
The presentations on this panel brought to life the “transformations in the female bodily experiences and bodily metaphors” in a seven-year psychoanalysis, with detailed session verbatim transcriptions by the analyst. The presentations also portrayed how this systematic approach to clinical verbatim transcriptions (the Three-Level Model [3-LM]), in this panel focusing on female bodily metaphors, can bring psychoanalysts from different cultures together to formulate transformations in the patient, with remarkable consensus.
Roberto Muñoz (Madrid Psychoanalytic Association) opened his presentation with Freud's “ideal ambition” for psychoanalysis to become a scientific discipline within the natural sciences, adding that this remains “one of the most controversial and debated issues, both inside and outside psychoanalytic institutions”. Munoz raised questions concerning convergences in theories, which may provide a “common ground”, and scientific pluralism with the problem of “many psychoanalyses”. He described the 3-LM as a guide for clinical discussions, which respond to these important questions. He presented observations on change in a patient presenting to a 3-LM group in Madrid.
Munoz concluded his presentation saying that he strongly supported the systematic work of clinical observation groups, which responds to urgent questions for contemporary psychoanalysis and provides a useful method for improving the training of psychoanalysts. Munoz stated: “since clinical experiences and evidence, based on data from psychoanalytic research, have confirmed that psychoanalytic treatments produce significant changes in patients, our current mission needs to include: ‘how to describe more precisely what these observed changes are’ and, finally, ‘to clarify how and why patients change’”.
Marina Altmann (Uruguayan Psychoanalytic Association) presente