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Can Psychoanalysis be Identical Everywhere? with Jorge Bruce (Lima)

Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch

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The Transference of Trauma in the Office

In the office, there is room for metaphor and symbolization because safety is assured. But outside the office in your community, there is an overwhelming amount of trauma in the sense of survival. Survival is what's at issue and therefore the defensive structure, not to mention the physiological structure, is required to always be alert. To just think in terms of symbols and metaphoric meaning is to miss the level of necessity, the sympathetic overload that people live in chronically and physiologically.

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