Dissociation: philosophical and clinical understanding

Psychoanalytical psychopathology

  • Maksim G. Pestov
Keywords: dissociation, therapeutic relationship, intersubjectivity, borderline situation, object relations theory, relational psychoanalysis, Lacanian psychoanalysis, multiple states of self, enactment

Abstract

Dissociation is the most important mental mechanism organizing subjectivity. The article provides a study of the phenomenon of dissociation through philosophical and clinical optics, as well as a description of psychotherapeutic work taking into account the logic of the dissociative process and the possibility of integration.

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Author Biography

Maksim G. Pestov

Pestov Maksim G., MD, psychologist (Higher School of Economics), supervisor and trainer of PP GP, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, member of EAGT, IARPP, ROTFP.

Published
2024-01-15
How to Cite
PestovM. G. (2024). Dissociation: philosophical and clinical understanding. Journal of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis, 4(4), 21-32. Retrieved from https://psychoanalysis-journal.hse.ru/article/view/18974
Issue
Vol 4 No 4 (2023): Journal of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis
Section
CLINICAL PSYCHOANALYSIS