Entretien avec Catherine Chabert : méthode transmission et formation. Plaidoyer pour une approche théorico-clinique

Abstract

AimBased on an interview with Catherine Chabert, psychoanalyst and professor emerita of clinical psychology at Paris Descartes University, the aim is to explore the stakes involved in transmission both in universities and in schools of psychoanalysis. MethodInterview with Catherine Chabert. The questions concern her personal training; then the method accompanying teaching, research, and training in psychology; and finally the place of psychoanalysis and metapsychology in transmission. ResultsCatherine Chabert insists on the importance of reading the texts in depth, a method she was taught in her studies in philosophy and then applied to Freud's texts, as a training tool. She also discusses the importance, for students, of exploring psychic functioning from a clinical psychological perspective based on a particular method, such as metapsychology or projective tests according to the approach of the Paris school. DiscussionC. Chabert was trained in research by both D. Widlöcher and D. Anzieu, and completed a psychology thesis and then a doctorate under their direction. Clinical activity is also inseparable from transmission and training in the back-and-forth between practice and theory, in this case metapsychology. But psychoanalysis also has an important place in training and transmission. Even if psychoanalysis is not meant to be taught in a university setting, to take into account the transferential effects in training and in the will and desire to learn. ConclusionWhile psychoanalysis is currently under attack, the fight to keep it alive and to allow it to enrich the teaching of clinical psychology must continue.