Pichon Rivière’s original concept of “link” explains the relational linkages between self and object representations, and expands the concept of the link to the description of unconscious intrapsychic group formations. It is, together with the work of Klein, Fairbairn, and Winnicott, a fundamental contribution to contemporary psychoanalytic object relations theory. ‘Pichon Rivière’s important work is finally available to the English-speaking reader. The book also includes a glossary by the editors of Pichon-Rivière’s major concepts and terms. Finally, David Scharff summarizes Pichon’s major ideas and offers a comparison between these concepts and object relations theory. de Quiroga, Pichon’s life partner for many years and subsequently the director of the School of Social Psychology that Pichon founded Alberto Eiguer narrates an experience with Pichon and his influence on Eiguer’s ideas and writing and Vicente Zito Lema gives his vision of Pichon’s work from sociological and philosophical perspectives. Rosa Jaitin describes the experience of teaching Pichon’s ideas in Lyon, and in other French cities René Kaës discusses meeting Pichon, and offers his translated introduction to the French version of the complete work of Pichon Rosa Marcone interviews Ana P. These include Roberto Losso’s contribution, a panorama of Pichon’s ideas alongside his personal experience as Pichon’s student. In the third part, several commentators discuss Pichon Rivière’s and clinical practice.
These writings testify to Pichon Rivière as an original thinker, years ahead of his time. In the second part, the editors present several original texts of Pichon Rivière that demonstrate his multiplicity of interests, covering classic psychiatry, dynamic psychiatry, psychoanalysis, as well as group psychotherapy, family and couple psychotherapy, social psychology, and applied psychoanalysis. de Setton narrate Pichon Rivière’s biography relating elements of his life to his subsequent work. The main papers represent his theory of psychoanalysis including the link ( el vinculo), spiral process, the theory of unifying illness, the action of interpretation, and the role and capacity of working in groups and in the family group.
This book presents Pichon-Riviere’s groundbreaking work in English for the first time. His work has inspired not only the succeeding generations of Latin American analysts, but also spawned the fields of analytic family therapy and dynamic group work and organizational consultation. He has never been translated into English, so his ideas are only known indirectly through the work of students and colleagues. Enrique Pichon Riviere was a pioneering psychoanalyst, writing in Spanish in Argentina in the middle of the 20th century.
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