Abstract:
In this article we critically take up the proposal of the Boston Group (which proposed a unified paradigm for psychotherapeutic practices), made up by psychoanalysts, pediatricians, developmentalists, and other researchers related to the situation and development of the mother-baby relationship in the perinatal period. It emphasizes in which sense their contributions - notably the need for “something beyond interpretation”, the affective reality of the encounter between analyst and patient, verbal and non-verbal communications, the explicit and implicit contents in psychotherapeutic relationships - may lead to the development of psychotherapeutic theory and practice, especially the psychoanalytic one.
Keywords:
Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis; interpretation; encounter; paradigms