Journal de Etica y Cine

Volumen 12 | N° 1

MARCH 2022
March 2022 - June 2022

Françoise Dolto’s analytical practice: reflections on the use of drawings from a biographical film

Françoise Dolto, le désir de vivre | Serge Le Péron | 2008

Family Service Toronto

Abstract

This essay articulates some considerations on the analytical practice of Françoise Dolto and her handling of pictorial productions of child patients. To this end, it draws on the film “Françoise Dolto, le désir de vivre”. It presents a brief description of the film to introduce some fundamentals describing the clinical practice of Françoise Dolto, and then presents some theoretical and clinical considerations about the drawings presented in the two clinical cases illustrated in the movie.

Keywords: Drawings | Psychoanalysis | Françoise Dolto

This article is, for the time being, only available in Spanish: La práctica analítica de Françoise Dolto: reflexiones sobre el uso de los dibujos desde una película biográfica

NOTAS

Etica y Cine (Ethics & Films) is a Peer Reviewed Quarterly Journal Edited by
Department of Psychoanalysis and Department of Deontology, School of Psychology, National University of Cordoba, Argentina
Department of Psychology, Ethics and Human Rights, School of Psychology, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
With the collaboration of:
Center for Medical Ethics (CME), Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway
Under the auspicious of:
The International Network of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics.

Françoise Dolto’s analytical practice: reflections on the use of drawings from a biographical film

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