COWAP EUROPE
Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis IPA

A Zoom COWAP Lecture of the series “Being a Woman Today”
Saturday, June 27th, 10:30-12:00

Speaker: Justyna Zalewska (PTPa, Poland)

“An Analyst’s Hallucination as a Manifestation of Osmotic Communication in the context of Shared Pregnancy Trauma”

Discussant: Katy Bogliatto (BPS, Belgium)
Chair: Luz Maria Abtángelo Stürzenbaum (APM, Spain)

The analyst’s hallucinatory experience during sessions involving birth trauma - where primordial fears of disappearance trigger the analyst’s own traumatic - echoes. Through osmotic communication, a semipermeable receptivity facilitates the filtration of unconscious psychic content between both parties. This primal dialogue allows the analyst to act as a transformative vessel for the patient’s previously unmentalized experiences. Ultimately, the process highlights how deep-seated, nonverbal trauma is metabolised within the clinical relationship.

Justyna Zalewska is a Training Psychoanalyst of the Polish Psychoanalytic Association and a Supervisor and Training Psychotherapist at the Polish Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. She contributes actively to the field through seminars and supervisions in public health care institutions across the Tricity area (Gdansk–Sopot–Gdynia, Poland). Her article “An Analyst’s Hallucination as a Manifestation of Osmotic Communication,” was published in the September 2024 issue of The Psychoanalytic Review. Justyna Zalewska currently maintains a private practice working with adults in Gdynia.

Confidentiality: Open to all.

Link to the online conference

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