Abstract

GOMES, Isabel Cristina. Marital Conflicts in Contemporaneity and Psychic Transmission: Research and Intervention with Couples. Subj. procesos cogn. [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.1, pp.122-140. ISSN 1852-7310.

For more than a decade we have aimed at researching within the psychoanalytic couple and family clinic, relying basically on the theoretical referential frame of argentine relational psychoanalysis and of french authors, mainly Eiguer (1998) and Kaës (2011), the latter regarding concepts of psychic transmission (inter and transgenerational) and denegative pact mainly. Eventually clinical research broadened its scope to include psychosocial studies, aiming at complementing the perspective and training of the clinician. In the passage from the traditional model to new family configurations, changes occurring within the family were incorporated and new conflicts and pathologies occurring within the household and in the broader social environment were considered. We propose the creation of a specific couple clinic (Gomes, 2007) since couple clinics still focus, in some cases, on the symptoms of the child. By means of psychoanalytical psychotherapy applied to 10 couples in a training clinic, we increased the understanding of marital conflict mediated by trans-generationality, at the interface between conjugality and parenting. In most cases, reconstituted families was the prevailing arrangement, where the interplay between conjugality and parenting being more complex, contributed more emphatically to that type of conflict. Only on 3 cases the demand was for couple assistance, without using the child as depositary. However, understanding marital conflict notwithstanding the demand enabled in depth consideration of the type of link or unconscious pact established by the couples. In general, it was associated to trans-generational content, which once manifested, promoted change opportunities and effective elaborations intra and inter-psychically for all those involved.

Keywords : Couple relationships; Couple-based clinical interventions; Intergenerational Transmisión.

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