How do others feel? Why do they feel the way they feel? We meet to learn to put ourselves in the place of others.

Lunch break. In the APA hall sandwiches, drinks and coffee will be available for sale.

Team and colleagues in training at the Multifamily Parent School.

Theory and Clinic. Experience of 20 years.

Intervention in a vulnerable community in Bajo de San Isidro.

Vulnerable communities, social GMF, prevention, capillary communication.

The paper reports the treatment carried out between the Mental Health Service hospitalization and the outpatient treatment of a patient with a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder and cocaine dependence. The therapeutic devices used within the hospitalization were individual psychotherapy, multifamily psychotherapy, group psychotherapy of patients and pharmacological treatment. In outpatient treatment, individual psychotherapy and pharmacological treatment.

The articulation between García Badaracco's ideas and Bronfrenbrenner's Bioecological Model presents itself as an enriching perspective for understanding and treating the suffering of family systems with minors, allowing us to evaluate and intervene in all those variables that directly or indirectly affect intra- and extra-family interactions during human development. These variables will be decisive in determining whether or not the person adapts as a subject within the culture in which they live. The GPMFIJ constitutes an expanded microsystem where, based on each person's proximal experiences, pathological and pathogenic identifications are recreated and transformed, while, from an ecological perspective, this group and its interactions constitute a space where the relationships between incorporated and/or introjected systems are modified. 

Este trabajo se apoya en la observación directa de las transformaciones vividas en los grupos multifamiliares. El análisis surge del propio campo clínico y no de una articulación teórica posterior, tomando como referencia las viñetas y discusiones registradas por Jorge García Badaracco en los grupos de Psicoanálisis Multifamiliar (PMF) en el año 2000. En estos registros, García Badaracco concibe el rescate de la vivencia como un proceso de recuperación de experiencias encapsuladas —no su mera observación— entendido como una fuerza transformadora. 

Destaca que los pacientes ponen en juego una energía psíquica que circula y se reorganiza en el grupo, de acuerdo con una concepción del inconsciente más próxima al modelo energético y simbólico junguiano que al modelo pulsional tradicional. En el PMF, el grupo no solo contiene: transforma y lo hace no por la interpretación, sino por la puesta en acto de una dimensión compartida del sufrimiento y del lenguaje. En ese contexto, la vivencia se convierte en símbolo vivo, capaz de reorganizar el campo afectivo y movilizar la energía psíquica latente. 

The group operates as a symbolic transformative matrix, where personal and primordial images emerge—abandonment, filiation, forgiveness, reparation—that are not explained, but rather relived and acquire new meaning. This reading does not propose an external articulation between two authors: Jungian influence is recognised in García Badaracco's praxis, not in an explicit quotation, but in his clinical and creative appropriation of Jungian ideas, especially those referring to the energetic dynamics of the unconscious and the symbolic value of shared emotional experience. 
Keywords: Multifamily Psychoanalysis (MFA); shared symbolic field; living symbol; collective unconscious; group resonance; clinical and social sustainability.

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This article proposes a theoretical reflection on the experience of Multifamily Groups (GMF), developed from the framework of Integrative Psychoanalysis elaborated by Eduardo Mandelbaum. The model has its origins in the tradition of Maxwell Jones' therapeutic communities and in the first experiences at the Borda Psychiatric Hospital in Buenos Aires. Over time, it has been configured as a clinical device capable of articulating psychoanalysis with contributions from other psychotherapeutic currents, privileging a complex and non-reductionist view that links biology, conflict and history through words and group exchange.

The onset of a mental illness is not only de-structuring for the subject, but also for those close to him/her. It has a devastating effect that generates experiences of guilt and some reactive to it: overprotection, hostility, among others. It can also cause havoc due to excessive love, or destruction due to abandonment.

Three questions will be addressed: Why early intervention in severe pathologies? Why multi-approach with group devices? Why and why include family members in the treatment?

The need to provide accommodation to families will be discussed in depth, since the appearance of symptomatology in the patient aggravates the dysfunctionality already existing in them, making psychic change more difficult.

The value and the specificity of the group will be based on an experience in a Public Hospital called “Open Group of Relatives and Patients”, usually “La Multi”.  It will be exemplified with a clinical vignette.

25 year’s experience in an child’s hospital.

We will work on integrating practices and theories in dialogue: dialogical practices and multifamily psychoanalysis.