ABSTRACT
Pichon Pichon Riviere was a unique, multi-faceted figure. His interests ranged from classic to dynamic psychiatry, from psychoanalysis, group psychotherapy, family and couple therapy to social psychology, applied psychoanalysis, and more. He was also concerned with the connection between art and madness, and literature and madness. Pichon Riviere was also one of the first to use psychoanalysis to understand psychosis. He studied the development of the transference in psychotic patients and applied the psychoanalytic method to treat psychoses. Pichon Riviere defines biopsychological needs of love, contact, protection, warmth, and nutrition. Individuals are born with these and other needs, which lead them to undergo experiences from the start. Some of these experiences will be frustrating, and others gratifying. Always interested in soccer, Pichon Riviere uses a metaphor, internal field, to illustrate his notion of the internal group as dynamic and in constant interaction and motion.
