SPECIFIC PARAMETERS OF PSYCHOANALYTIC TRE ATMENTS IN UNFAVORABLE AND DANGEROUS SOCIAL CONDITIONS IN THE FORMER CZECH CULTURE

Psychoanalysis in former Czechoslovakia was practiced since the thirti es without interruption until the present time. It has survived 40 yea rs under the communist regime in underground conditions. The author de scribes the specific and historical features of the Czech underground which has tradition in Czech culture. Specific parameters of the psych oanalytic treatments under unfavourable and dangerous social condition s are demonstrated. Issues of transference and counter-transference pr oblems are discussed. The psychoanalytic theory of reality, its levels and ''compartments'' helps to understand how the safe space in the ps ychoanalytic process could be created and maintained. The special ethi cal role of psychoanalysts in the totalitarian society is underlined. Clinical vignettes are used to illustrate problems of the underground psychoanalytic practice.