The Working Party on the Specificity of Psychoanalytic Treatment Today is a research method founded by Evelyne Sechaud, who developed the work of the clinical groups by widening the ideas of Johan Norman, Bjorn Salomonsson and Jean-Luc Donnet. The method is based on an analogical relation between the analytic sessions and their narration. The Working Party has found that owing to the associative thinking of analysts working together, the clinical research group functions as a magnifying echo of the transference-countertransference relation between patient and analyst. . .

In the seventies Wilfred Bion wrote Attention and Interpretation: a Scientific Approach to Insight in Psychoanalysis and Groups, in which he proposed a sort of scientific psychoanalysis to address the following problem: The importance of the unconscious must not blind us to the fact that in addition to our unconscious memories and desires, dealt with psycho-analytically, there is a problem to solve in the handling of our conscious memories and desires.  What kind of psychoanalysis is required for the conscious?

Often, we can find our truth only in foreign lands, it is never very far, but there is the strange and constant fact that only after a devout journey to a distant region, a foreign country, an unknown land, the meaning of the voice interior that must guide our research can be revealed to us.