A critical review of the historical, epistemologic, and clinical developments of the discipline is provided in order to illustrate the foundations of the dynamic 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
The course attempts to put the psychodynamic approach and the psychoanalytic theory in historical, cultural and epistemological perspective and to consider the differences and the similarities between theories and methods in different contexts (clinical work and research field). The course introduces many central iusses in the field of current different models to promote the undestanding of psychoanalysis as the study of the mental functioning.
Mangini, E. (2001). Lezioni sul pensiero freudiano e sue iniziali diramazioni. Milano: LED.
Concato, G., Innocenti, F. (2006). Manuale di Psicologia Dinamica. Edizioni Psiconline, from p.85 to the end.
Lauro Grotto, R. (2014). Paradigmi metapsicologici. ETS Editore
Learning Objectives - Last names A-K
▶ Knowledge and understanding. The course provides basic knowledge about the psychodinamic approach
▶ Applying knowledge and understanding. Provide knowledges to apply psychodynamic models of interventions and of research planning with respect to the different contexts of psychological interest, including the clinical setting.
▶ Making judgements. Sustain the development of self-reflection and develop the epistemologic background of the student by a guided approach to reading classical psychoanalitic literature.
▶ Communication skills. Sustain the process of making explicit use of the psychological competences that are relevant to the professional context.
▶ Capacità di apprendere (learning skills). Favour an opening to the contact and a basic sensitivity to grasp dynamic phenomena in the context of structured learning experiences.
Learning Objectives - Last names L-Z
a) General goals: To promote the professional developoment of the student by psycodynamic and psychoanalitycal theory and close reading exercises that can help them to undestand the dynamics of human interaction and of their psychic function
b) Goals: To introduce to the history of the development of psychoanalysis and to intoduce psychoanalytic concepts. Illustrate selected psychoanalytic theories about normal and pathological development and psychic function
c) Risultati di apprendimento attesi (sapere, saper fare, saper essere)
Knowledge: To introduce and to extend the knowledge of psychoanalytic thinking
Skills/Know-how: Develop the ability to apply insight form psichoanalytic thinking to work setting with adult, children, adolescent and groups and the ability to integrate osbervationa and theory in the work setting
Learning to be: To extend and deepen an awareness and understanding of human development, interaction e the inter—relationship between exteranl and internal word
Prerequisites - Last names A-K
none
Teaching Methods - Last names A-K
▶ Knowledge and under standing. Frontal lessons.
▶ Applying knowledge and understanding. Frontal lessons.
▶ Making judgements. Close reading, interactive group discussions and experiencial seminars.
▶ Communication skills. Experiential seminars.
▶ Learning skills. Selfguided learning and guided discussions during lessons.
Teaching Methods - Last names L-Z
lectures, seminars, close reading exercises, observational and clinical materials discussions
Further information - Last names A-K
Further details about essays that will be discussed during the lessons will be provided during the lessons.
At cycle of at least four seminars will be devoted to the theme: 'Psychoanalytic perspectives on contemporary suffering'
Type of Assessment - Last names A-K
▶ Knowledge and understanding Open questions
▶ Applying knowledge and understanding) Open questions
▶ Making judgements. Critical discussion of ad essay at students’ choice
▶ Communication skills) Critical discussion of ad essay at students’ choice
▶ Learning skills Critival evaluation of the group experiences andof the experiential seminars attended by the students.
Type of Assessment - Last names L-Z
oral examination
(Reasoning ability about the mental functioning and on personality, correct use of specialisted language, concept and theoretical model, ability to synthesize information n
communication skills, ability to think criticall and flexibility thinking in the use of knowledge
Course program - Last names A-K
The program is developed around the fundations of dynamic psychology: the main theoretical concepts (with particular attention to dreams interpretation, transference, countertransference and the different component of the analytic setting) will be illustrated and critically discussed following the historical, epistemic and structural perspectives. Reading and analysis of selected papers is proposed as a tool to develop an initial sensitivity to the occurrence of dynamical phenomena. The evolution of different perspectives of the psychoanalitic thought, from drives theory to analytic psychology, object relation theory and the intersubjective perspectives will be illustrated and critically discussed. The focus will be maintained on the epistemic pluralism that is characteristic of contemporary psychoanalysis.
Course program - Last names L-Z
The course aims to illustrate to the student teorical and metapsychological tools of freudian and post-freudian psychoanalytic thinking and, in general, of psychodynamic approach, to promote knowledge of the basic psycoanalytic concepts and to highlight the specificity of psychoanalytic point of view. The course is based on relation between clinical and theory in the psychodynamic approach and, in particular, in psychoanalysis. The main topics of the course will be freudian model and post-freudian models (Klein, Bion, Winnicott, Ferenczi, Ogden, Green, ecc..) and the interaction between pulsional and object-relations models about asymbolic, pre-symbolic and symbolic areas of mind. The main subject of the course is the sources for psychic functioning and the personality development in relation with affect and thinking and the symbolic capacity. The psychoanalytic perpective will be insert in a storical, metapsychological and clinical perspectives in clinical work with adult and children