Biomedical subjects

R E Rocca

Publications and source records attributed to R E Rocca.

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PubMed1985

[Analytic therapy by the wake-dream].

The author goes through process of treatment by Robert Desoille's Wake-Dream analysis in an effort to expose the psychodynamics involved. In the first place, he approaches the problem of commencement of therapy up to the constitution of the framework inherent to the Wake-Dream. This presupposes a peculiar dissociation into several "me"; and a work method that may be thought of as progressive set up of a "personal mythology", through the various method stages, which in turn entails the task of binding and integrating every temporal and spatial dimension of psychism. The technique's therapeutic mechanics are based essentially in this work method. He also deals with the problem of transference and resistance and with the segregation of process phases just as they arise in medicine. On the basis of a text by Freud and of the aforementioned criteria, he supports the "analytical" nature of the Wake-Dream (in a sense similar to the term in psychoanalysis), in spite of the fact that the latter is not derived from psychoanalysis and is completely different from it as regards technique. Wake-Dream and psychoanalysis are bradly coincident as far as theorical hypotheses supporting them are concerned.

Dreams↗

PubMed1981

[Hysterical psychoneurosis and its psychopathological and clinical limits].

The author's purpose in this paper is to delimit the clinical and psychopathological features of the hysterical psychoneurosis, correlating its symptoms (as characteristic of this neurosis) with the psychodynamic speculations of psychoanalysis. To achieve, this, the author starts by placing this disorder among the psychoneurosis as opposed to the actual neurosis and, within that group, among the transference neurosis, separating it, in that way, from the narcissistic and impulsive neurosis. The hysterical psychoneurosis is also distinguished from the fobic and the obsessive neurosis. The clinical picture of the hysterical psychoneurosis is then defined taking into account personality on one side and symptoms on the other. Dependence, sexual behavior disturbances, agressivity, effects of identification and repression are considered characteristics of this personality. Paroxistic symptoms, corporal and lasting symptoms and psychic syndromes are part of the hysterical symptoms. The author makes a clinical characterization of these phenomena as they are actually found. On this basis the author intends to distinguish hysteria from normality, from fobic and obsessive neurosis, from schizophrenic, manic-depressive and paranoic psychosis; from traumatic and actual neurosis and from psychosomatic diseases and epilepsy. He critically examines the validity of diagnostic-differential criteria and points to the overlapping with other pathologies, discussing in brief the theoretical and practical problems that those questions pose.

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[Directed daydreaming of Robert Desoille].

The "Rêve éveillé dirigé" by R. Desoille, is a real method of deep psychotherapy directed to the individual selfknowledge through the discovery of his unconscious. The special thing about this method is knowledge through imagination, under determined technical conditions and guided by the psychotherapist according to well defined clues. The result of these workings of the imagination is interpreted later in discussion sessions. The systematic use of these devices in long term treatments leads to a progressive connection of the individual's imaginary world with his past history and his present conflicts. The therapeutic effect of this method evolves out to the utilization of imaginary language--which is preverbal, arcaica and near the primary process--together with the possible manipulation of it. The progressive integration of unconscious phantasies, affects and verbal experiences is enhanced by the imaginary dramatization and is completed by the interpretation of the production of the patient. This process would not be possible without a positive transference that allowed the subject to express his prohibited phantasies. This is the reason why the relationship between the therapist and the patient is--as in any profound psychotherapy happens--the basis of the method. This must be made conscious and conveniently managed by the psychotherapist, but this is seldom done. The paper is completed with a basic bibliography where the most significative works are listed and commented briefly upon so that anybody can go more deeply into the matter.

Fantasy↗