Welcome to the 21st WCP Virtual Congress Program Scheduling

The objective of this Symposium is to establish a dialogue between Psychoanalysis and Neurosciences regarding dissociative disorders that are triggered by cumulative traumas. The traumatic situation is usually described as an objective disruptive event, but, in the usual mental health clinic, we find situations that are difficult to diagnose, due in part to the silence of the victims of these traumas and to their naturalization. Psychoanalytic theory and technique serve as the theoretical framework for many psychosocial interventions in mental health. It must be reviewed in light of changes in the patient's observing ego. That damaged ego has had to split up and sacrifice its unity of integration in the service of defensive mechanisms. Just as an example, we can mention eating disorders generated from sexual abuse, the consequences of medical malpractices in cosmetic surgeries chosen by patients, migrations in highly unstable conditions, unforeseen job changes, non-elaborate duel, bonding difficulties in joined families. Access to verbal therapy is hindered in front of the wall that is raised to protect the subject from the irruption of memories. The facts are presented to memory as unrealized and alien events. Most of the time the queries become circular and inoperative. Dr. Graciela Onofrio will refer to “The splitting of the ego in the process of defense”. Prof Eduardo Gastelumendi will refer to “Stealth dissociative disorders”, rarely investigated in the usual clinic and which are expressed as distancing from emotions. Dr Miguel Cuellar will refer to “What does Neurosciences teach us about dissociative disorders?”