Conter transference

The contribution of psychoanalysis to geriatric care in nursing home is discussed in three directions: its conception of care, specially on its negative sides; its implication in geriatric units, in their conception and in the analysis of their management of care; the holding of care-givers and nurses by making clear what we call transference and conter-transference and their reflection on their function.

BACKGROUND: Systematic reviews published on the same topic during a similar period of time (i.e., overlapping reviews) on anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction complicate the choice between bone-patellar tendon-bone or hamstring tendon autograft. We aimed to evaluate reasons for differences among the overlapping systematic reviews and to assess the quality of reporting and internal validity. METHODS: We performed a search of MEDLINE, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, and EMBASE to identify systematic reviews in which bone-patellar tendon-bone graft was compared with hamstring tendon autograft for reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament...

The author draws from his extensive psychiatric experience with violent patients to expose the dynamics of their violent acts, and the effects of these acts on patients and care personnel. Taking analysis as a reference point, he describes patients' defence mechanisms (denial, identification with the aggressor, things leading to the act, cleavage) and the therapists' negative countertransference reactions (delay in intervention, prescription, fear, anger, and powerlessness) and their negative cognitive responses...

The author examines certain counter-transference stakes in psychotherapeutic work with borderline patients. Specifically, she looks at counter-transference linked, on the one hand, to these persons' mode of communication, marked by identity projection, and on the other hand, to their mode of relating, characterized by the desire to merge both their anxieties and their ways of thinking, influenced by abundant use of a splitting mechanism. The author then reflects on narcissistic economy and the length considerations for the patient-therapist pair...

A 7-y-old boy with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) received 600 mg of i.v. methotrexate (MTX) over 2 h, followed by triple intrathecal therapy (TIT) with cytosine arabinoside 30 mg, methylprednisolone 10 mg and MTX 300 mg (instead of the prescribed 12 mg). Ninety minutes later the patient developed headache, loss of consciousness and generalized hypertonia. He was transferred to the Intensive Care Unit, intubated and treated with phenobarbital. Three hours after the TIT, the levogyrus form of folinic acid (equivalent to double doses of the racemic product) was started i...