A metapsychological reading of the phenomena of the double bind and psychic paradox enables us to understand how important they are in the psychic (de)structuration of the subject, and to elaborate upon manifestations of transference and counter-transference that they entail, which are a major issue in therapy. Lastly, the concept of paradox enables us to put back to work – and back “in play” – issues of limits and boundaries in adolescence.
PsyaO, “ computer-assisted psychotherapy ”, is legitimized when the virtual game, by stimulating faulty insight, provides an imaginary dynamic graft that can awaken the numbed depressive or the child who is failing out of school … The parent can be reinserted via the ludic interactive relation that liberates vital energy through the pleasure shared with the therapist.
Revue semestrielle de psychanalyse, psychopathologie et sciences humaines, indexée AERES au listing PsycINFO publiée avec le concours du Centre National du Livre et de l’Université de Paris Diderot Paris 7