Uso de la fotografía en psicoanálisis relacional. Proceso vincular de acceso a lo simbólico. Acompañando a M.
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The use of biographical documents, such as photography, bear witness to the subject in its context. Review of the pictures is based on the mutual interaction between psychotherapist and patient. I propose to analyze the use of photography as a clinical tool that facilitates knowledge and integration, illustrating it through a clinical case, whom I will call M. I start from a theoretical review, from the paradigm of relational psychoanalysis, attachment theory, bonding processes, symbolization and mentalization. I incorporated the work with photography in two moments: at the beginning of therapy, as a life story narrative and 4 years later, as her own creative process, in a clinical impasse. The use of images has allowed us to incorporate a temporal-spatial experience that has helped to have mental, symbolic and emotional representations of oneself in a more integrated way. Some images have generated moments of great emotional intensity, emerging from unmentionables conflicts, elements of transformation have emerged that have given M greater spontaneity, in an intersubjective affective encounter, to which is added the reflective capacity, incorporating words in the review of the shared images, facilitating the understanding of meanings. The photographic encounter has become the transitional space with which to work and play, to access the symbolic. Photography is a privileged medium to construct our own story of our relational framework, transforming our sense of identity. The use of photography has contributed to the development of the intersubjective bonding space, providing it with greater intimacy and trust, a context that facilitates change.
Authors: Instituto de Psicoterapia Relacional, Ana Rodríguez Gonzalo
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4410029032