The singularity of psychoanalytic listening with psychotic patients requires of the professionals who are willing to work with this class of patients a level of detachment that goes beyond the limits of the transference, and such detachment may at first seem unreachable. The management of the transference through the writings of a female psychoanalytic patient is described here, as well as a discussion on the expansion of the psychoanalytic space that clinical work with psychotic patients may require.
Psychoanalysis; psychosis; transference; literature