Book, First Interview In Psychoanalysis, 1/04[LS]

Maud Mannoni's book is a testimonial document, accessible to many. He makes the reader cooperate in the first step taken by a person who comes for a consultation, the object of the consultation being either themselves or a loved one, and motivated by a request for help from the psychoanalyst. Each reader, thanks to the author's art, will feel more or less involved, initiated into a new and dynamic way of thinking about human behavior and its irregularities.. Will you understand what is meant when we say, speaking of the psychoanalyst, that what makes him specific is his receptivity, his?listening?.He will see people who have come, knowing only who they are addressing, sent by their doctor, by their educator, by someone who knows the difficulties they are in but who cannot help them directly.; These people, in the presence of a psychoanalyst, begin to speak as they would speak to any individual, and yet the psychoanalyst's only way of listening, listening in the full sense of the term, causes their speech to change, to acquire a new meaning in their own ears. In effect, psychoanalysts, through their technique, are oriented towards the discovery and cure of an instrumental deficiency.. They respond at the level of the manifested phenomenon, of the symptom: parental distress, school or character disturbance of the child, through the use of specific aid devices, advocating therapeutic or corrective measures aimed at re-education. Difficult, alienated children, in moral danger, rebellious to any treatment, who are you, who are your parents? the author asks, inviting the reader: follow me, this world is also yours. Next, there is the testimony of a long experience of psychoanalytic consultations and the world exposed there reveals truths about which society usually remains silent.