‘A Walk 21/1/35’: a psychiatric-psychoanalytic fragment meets the new walking studies

This paper reconstructs a fragment of psychiatric-psychoanalytical geography, interfacing it with the ‘new walking studies’, centring on a walk conducted in 1935 by a man experiencing mental health problems in Glasgow, Scotland. This man, a patient of the psychiatrist Thomas Ferguson Rodger, had mobility problems that rendered walking difficult – prone to stumbling, staggering, wavering – but with the likelihood of these problems being psychosomatic in origin. Through analytic sessions enacting a kind of ‘make-do’ psychoanalysis, the patient reflected on his mobility problems, as when relating his own walking ‘experiment’. Explanations advanced for his difficulties mixed psychoanalytic tropes with a gathering self-awareness of how fraught childhood experiences, had created the frame for an adult existence continually shying away from wider encounters and challenges beyond the domestic sphere. Central here was forward momentum being lost, whether walking or advancing through a life-course, with material and metaphoric senses of being stalled or stuck – spatially, environmentally – constantly entraining one another. This case study is deployed to illustrate claims about the ‘worlding’ of psychoanalysis, and to offer provocations for how such a psychiatric-psychoanalytic geography fragment might be illuminated by work on the cultural geographies of walking.

Building bridges between psychoanalysis and music

In this article, I begin by presenting how a Greek song erupted within the flow of my everyday existence and allowed me to reconnect with past trauma, grief and psychic pain. Operating in a register which is different from that of symbolic language, and yet always already within it, music enables productive encounters with trauma and loss in everyday life. I then continue exploring the connections between music and language by employing Kristeva’s notions of ‘chora’ and the ‘semiotic’, which place the ‘musicality’ of language, its rhythm and tonality, and pitch and timbre at the centre of the analyst’s attention. I finish by referring to the work of Ogden who argues that both poetry/music and certain analytic sessions seem to generate powerful resonances and cacophonies of sound and meaning.

BERBAGAI KESALAHAN TATA LANGKAH PEKERJAAN LABORATORIUM KLINIK

Laboratory procedure errors occurred in some cycle parts during prae-analytic, analytic and post analytic sessions, they must beexcluded and prevented in the process because the outcome would support the diagnosis of diseases also to enhance their confidence.The laboratory works were carried out in the right methods, is suppervised accurately base on haematological, microbiological, clinicalchemistry and immunological standard examinations. Any deviation although the procedure results according the standard one mustbe registered. Laboratory errors revealed must be monitored as the means to reduce errors and to threat them well. Beside it is necessaryto have a good communication between patients, doctors as well as with the laboratory services.

Withdrawal and Regression

This paper gives an account of the analysis of a patient who did not actually become clinically regressed, but for whom regressions were localized in momentary withdrawal states which occurred in the analytic sessions. Winnicott states that during these moments of withdrawal unexpected things happen which the patient is sometimes able to report. If the analyst can hold the patient as soon as the withdrawn state appears, then the withdrawal state becomes a regression. Unlike a regression the withdrawn state is not profitable and when the patient recovers from a withdrawn state he or she is not changed. Winnicott further proposes that whenever we understand a patient in a deep way and show that we do so by a correct and well-timed interpretation we are holding the patient, and taking part in a relationship in which the patient is in some degree regressed and dependent.