The basis for this article lies in Lacan's developments for examining the role of love in the relationship psychotic patients establish with the world. The difficulties concerning love in psychosis demand a specific approach to transference in order to create new ways for the subject to bond with the world. Tracing back to the Greek origins of friendship, denoted by the term philia, will help us understand how one can develop and maintain a transference friendship. The search for and construction of a possible solution for transference is presented and its management in the collective experience is discussed.
Psychosis; love; psychoanalysis; mental health