Gaetano Benedetti, Johannes Cremerius, the Milan ASP, and the future of the IFPS

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ID20481024
AuthorsMarco Conci (0000-0003-4287-2344, Biocon (Switzerland), corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume23
Issue2
Pages85-95
Publication date2014-04-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Forum of Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0803-706X • E-ISSN: 1651-2324
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0803706x.2014.881550
OpenAlexW2110012584
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited11

The aim of this paper is to show how the life, personality, and scientific work of Gaetano Benedetti and Johannes Cremerius shaped the original form and structure of the Milan Associazione di Studi Psicoanalitici (ASP), which they founded together with their pupils in 1971 and which became a member society of the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies (IFPS) in 1989. The training analysis was substituted by a personal analysis to be finished before the beginning of the training proper; group supervision had and still has as much importance as individual supervision; transference and countertransference analysis are fundamental dimensions of both psychoanalysis and psychotherapy; and psychoanalysis can survive only in a context of interdisciplinary dialogue, empirical research, and social commitment. The author thinks that all these ingredients, which Benedetti and Cremerius contributed to the life of the Milan Scuola di Psicoterapia Psicoanalitica and ASP, could represent important resources, as far as the future of the IFPS is concerned

Archaeology · Countertransference · Personality · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Sociology · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · History · Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications

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