O Psychotherapeutic Group in the analyst’s speech

a new clinic device in Psychosocial Care

Abstract

We aimed substantiating theoretical and technically a new proposal of psychotherapeutic group based on psychoanalysis, with the contributions of Jacques Lacan: in Freud's rereading, in a proposition of the discourses theory as social bonds, and in his considerations about the group. I’ve been taking as a starting point and support for reflection and elaboration an important text of Jurandir Freire Costa about the theory and the practice of psychotherapeutic groups, seeking to make a critical reading based on the contributions of Lacan, and in my experience as a group psychotherapist and as a researcher on the subject. Starting from the Lacanian redefinition of some important concepts in Freud's psychoanalysis –unconscious, subject, transference and interpretation –we’ve coming to the proposition of a different way of performing the psychotherapeutic group; of a contour not yet practiced for the function of the psychotherapist; and of a particular conception of its functioning and its effects. We propose the redefinition of the group, conceptualized as a possible fundamental operator of the practices of Psychosocial Care, in the intercession with the psychic and subjective impasses that currently present in the field of Collective Health