A critical review of the historical, epistemologic, and clinical developments of the discipline is provided in order to illustrate the foundations of the psychodynamic paradigm. Attention is devoted to the bond between teorical and conceptual assumptions and methodologic and technical implications for the dynamic psychologist.
Course Content - Last names L-Z
Psychodinamics and structures in the psycho-affective development.
Theoretical foundations of the science and its developments.
The main models, theoretic and clinical, including therapeutical applications.
Basic concepts of the psychodinamics, as anguish, drive, desire, “psychic reality”, defences, conflict, and so on, by a critical comparison between the two main orientations, evolutionist and structuralist.
Concato, G., Innocenti, F. (2006). Manuale di Psicologia Dinamica
Antonio Alberto Semi: Il metodo delle libere associazioni. Raffaello Cordtina Editore, Milano, 2011.
Adolf Guggenbühl Craig: Al di sopra del malato e della malattia. Il potere «Assoluto» del terapeuta, Raffaello Cortina, Milano 1987
Caluori S. (a cura di) (2003), Le storie che durano. Edizioni ETS, Pisa.
Caluori S., Tilli S.A. (2010), Una psicoanalisi che cammina da sola. Appunti critici sul sintomo, l’inconscio, la rappresentazione. In pubblicazione.
Freud S. (1915-17 e 1932), Lezioni scelte da Introduzione alla psicoanalisi (prima e nuova serie di lezioni). Boringhieri, Torino.
Klein M. (2000), Invidia e gratitudine. Martinelli, Firenze.
Lis A., Stella S., Zavattini G.C. (1999), Manuale di psicologia dinamica. Il Mulino, Bologna.
Mitchell S.A., Black M., L’esperienza della psicoanalisi. Storia del pensiero psicoanalitico moderno (1996). Bollati Boringhieri, Torino.
Nasio J.-D. (2005), L’Edipo. Il concetto cruciale della psicoanalisi. Ediz. Magi, Roma.
Winnicott D.W. (1971), Gioco e realtà. Armando Ed., Roma.
Zino L. (2008), Un bambino che ha paura. Infanzia e psicanalisi. Edizioni ETS, Pisa.
Learning Objectives - Last names A-K
The course provides basic knowledge about the psychodinamic theory and approach. The development of self-reflection by a guided approach to reading classical psychoanalitic literature will be sustained. The Course intends to favour an opening to the contact and a basic sensitivity to grasp some psychodinamic phenomena in the context of structured learning experiences.
Learning Objectives - Last names L-Z
Understanding of the psychoanalytic pattern as the ground of psychodynamics. Following and actual developments.
Developing a critic thinking in a comparison between theories, and different areas and patterns, with a particular regard for some theoretic and clinical trends: intrapsychic, relational, representational, structural.
Acquisition of a complex-critical thinking for listening psychical reality.
Prerequisites - Last names A-K
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Prerequisites - Last names L-Z
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Teaching Methods - Last names A-K
lectures and seminars
Teaching Methods - Last names L-Z
lessons
Further information - Last names A-K
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Further information - Last names L-Z
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Type of Assessment - Last names A-K
oral examination
Type of Assessment - Last names L-Z
Oral examination
Course program - Last names A-K
I Modulo (n. 3 CFU) Argomento: This Course provides a critical overview of the basic concepts in dynamic psychology, by following their historical and epistemologic development and by enlightenenig them via the analysis and group reading of relevant essays.
Obiettivi formativi: Introduce the student to the theory of the analytic relationship. Provide basic knowledge on transferal and countertrasferal phenomena, on the fuctions of the setting and on onirical activities in analysis.
Testi d'esame:
Concato, G., Innocenti, F. (2006). Manuale di Psicologia Dinamica.
The list of the essays that will be read and commented in class and more suggestions for the students will be available in the web page of the Course.
II Modulo (n. 3 CFU) Argomento: The evolution of psychoanalitic theories from the pulsional paradigm to the object relation, interpersonal and intersubjective perspectives.
Obiettivi formativi: The Course enlights the movement of the psychodynamic thought towards the epistemic pluralism that is typical of the contemporary debate.
Concato, G., Innocenti, F. (2006). Manuale di Psicologia Dinamica.
The list of the essays that will be read and commented in class and more suggestions for the students will be available in the web page of the Course.
III Modulo (n.3 CFU) Argomento: A critical view on the mental asset of the therapist with attention to the methodologic implications of theory.
Obiettivi formativi: The Course provides clinical examples in order to illustrate the way in which it is possible to favor a better approach to experience, learning and grow. Some aspects of the therapeutic relationship with respect to power and asymmetry will be considered. The Course intends to favour a reflexive attitude towards deonthological issues and their link with methods.
Testi d'esame
Antonio Alberto Semi: Il metodo delle libere associazioni. Raffaello Cordtina Editore, Milano, 2011.
Adolf Guggenbühl Craig: Al di sopra del malato e della malattia. Il potere «Assoluto» del terapeuta, Raffaello Cortina, Milano 1987
The list of the essays that will be read and commented in class and more suggestions for the students will be available in the web page of the Course.
Course program - Last names L-Z
Introduction to dynamic psychology as a critical-complex approach to the mind.
Insights on the relationships between theory and clinic in dynamic psychology. The primacy of affectivity, the unconscious, the conflict, the symptom in the psychodynamic perspective.
The concept of psychical reality. Psychoanalytical clinic as a complex dynamical experience, where trauma, desire, phantasy and narration articulate among themselves.