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Paolo Rossi (1923-2012) was one of the most well-known historians of science at the international level, in particular for his works on Scientific Revolution, on Bacon and on Galileo. He also had a strong interest in the history of psychology, in the development of experimental research on memory and in the epistemological problems of psychoanalysis. In general, he was also a critical analyst of the relationships between culture and politics in the twentieth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Stimulated by the challenging and accurate article by Stefano Fissi (2024), who draws on the latest works by Anil Seth and Mark Solms to address much-discussed topics in the current phase of the debate on the possibility of a mutual validation between cognitive neuroscience and psychoanalysis, some fundamental themes are discussed, indicating epistemological problems and understandable argumentative weaknesses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting from the very roots of psychoanalysis and by using the image of a military aeronautics manoeuvre called "Pugačëv's Cobra", in this article the Author intends to explore and demonstrate the usefulness and efficacy of unexpected brief interventions in the foreign patient's mother language. Drawing on clinical samples, the essay focuses on the strategic use of these expressions and jargony filler words, as well as gestures, all with intense affective value and, as such, that enable the therapist to approach both the patient's affective area and the sense-of-self, despite the patient defending and protecting these inner spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nature and nature experience are crucial elements in the context of a healthy human development and have a positive impact on mental and physical health. Global crises, such as climate change and environmental destruction, also affect human health. Psychotherapy chambers and associations are therefore calling on psychotherapists to address the issue of climate change and make effective contributions. Nature connectedness and eco-anxiety are two psychological constructs that should be considered in this context. Nature-based (psycho-)therapeutic approaches can, for example, promote nature connectedness, pro-ecological and environmentally conscious behavior and reduce eco-anxiety. This article also offers insights into nature and psychotherapy from the perspective of three psychotherapeutic clusters (psychodynamic psychotherapy, logotherapy and existential analysis, systemic therapy), an appropriate case vignette taken from psychotherapeutic practice, as well as a brief description of the clinical study «Walk and talk psychotherapy for patients suffering from depression». Psychotherapy has the potential to act as an effective «agent of change» within the discourse of «climate – nature – mental health». [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On the occasion of the death of Pier Francesco Galli (November 9, 1931 - July 13, 2024), who among other things founded in 1967 the journal Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane ("Psychotherapy and the Human Sciences"), an interview that the director Francesco Merini did with him in preparation for the movie I settant'anni di un maestro ("The seventy years of a master": https://vimeo.com/308667961) is republished. This movie was a gift given to Pier Francesco Galli on November 9, 2001, for his seventieth birthday. The interview retraces Galli's biography, intertwining his professional life with more intimate and human aspects, memories, and anecdotes, characterized by the typical humor that belonged to him. Galli mentions his childhood and early youth years in Nocera Inferiore (Salerno, Italy) where he was born, the beginning of his professional life in Milan, his experiences in Switzerland, the relationship with his closest friends, his cultural and professional interests, the way he conceived psychoanalysis, etc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, the topic of gender diversity has gained greater visibility, promoting the dissemination of narratives regarding transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people. Unfortunately, this popularity has also led to misconceptions, stereotypes, and prejudices, fueled by the combination of one-dimensional, pathologizing, and stigmatizing narratives from various sources, including psychoanalysis. Nevertheless, recent gender studies have contributed to the development of a more affirmative perspective on gender differences, no longer considering them disorders but legitimate expressions of individual identity, shaped by culture and society. Building on these premises, this article aims to explore the intertwining of narratives that contribute to the formation of TGD identities. Through a psychoanalytic lens, this article explores the main narratives that, interwoven with different intrapsychic realities, developmental lines, and life circumstances, evolve into ‘psychoanalytic trans-narratives’. These narratives represent dynamic solutions TGD populations adopt to become individuals with an authentic and cohesive identity. Some of these narratives pertain to life contexts such as family, school, and healthcare, while others relate to common developmental stages, body narratives, and the diagnosis of gender dysphoria and the associated stereotypical narratives (‘being trans-enough’, ‘it gets better’ and ‘coming-out imperative’). Although each narrative is examined individually, they are intricately intertwined in a ‘narrative web’ or ‘master trans-narrative’. Within this framework, TGD people position themselves based on different variables, which are also the subject of this work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An oft‐repeated and largely unexamined assumption in Jungian psychoanalysis is the notion of "analyzability", that is, of an individual's ability or present capacity to think symbolically. It is often taught that if someone is unable to think symbolically, a depth analysis is not possible. Such an individual may be more aptly suited for supportive psychotherapy, the argument goes, an experience that may very well lead to the development of the ego's capacity for symbolic thought but is not, in and of itself, a Jungian analysis. While this sort of categorical thinking has, at times, crossed over into ontological claims about individuals and groups, the notion of analyzability encountered in psychoanalytic theory and praxis is often cloaked in facially neutral language. The impact, however, has been anything but neutral in effect. In this paper, I propose a softening of our theoretical edges through a genealogy of the category of analyzability within the broader history of psychoanalysis. Through this excavation, I explore the contingent nature of the category of analyzability, how it has constricted knowledge, perpetuated inequality, and, more broadly, obscured ways of knowing. In so doing, I recover the radically democratic potential that lies at the heart of Jungian psychoanalysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A clinical experience from about forty-five years ago is recounted in which a patient suffering from hysterical paralysis of the legs was treated with a brief suggestive intervention which allowed him to regain the use of his lower limbs. The therapist had no experience of hypnosis, and the intervention, which lasted about twenty minutes, was improvised, employing various suggestive techniques and also including attempts to interpret unconscious conflicts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Synchronicity describes a meaningful coincidence of events, which is familiar to us from treatments of our patients, but unfortunately has not yet been empirically substantiated. Adding to previous findings that point out beneficial aspects of synchronicity (Marlo, 2022; Lagutina, 2021; Connolly, 2015), in this paper I will show through a series of five synchronistic moments which happened in the context of therapy and analysis and which have been documented empirically, how synchronicities occur and can be used therapeutically. In my research I found several situational factors that can be considered structural aspects of synchronistic moments. Furthermore, I will show that synchronistic phenomena can have a positive influence if certain relational and transference‐countertransference referential aspects are considered by the therapist and analyst. The concept of synchronicity brings the possibility of a further therapeutical instrument for the patient‐analyst‐dyad. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The present article intends to bring light to a season of intense developments and interdisciplinary interweaving in cultural studies that took place in Italy during the 970s and the 1980s, within which the methodological perspective of the Emotional Textual Analysis came to be formed. In particular, my attention will focus on the connection between ETA and the perspective of microhistory proposed by Carlo Ginzburg, in the field of historical studies, more specifically his circumstantial paradigm. In the first part, I will review a series of writings in which Ginzburg refers to psychoanalysis, in particular to Freud's work; in the second part, I will say in which respect ETA proves to be, in a unique way in the field on psychological sciences, a methodology of a circumstantial type: I will dwell in particular on the study of etymology. The article also provides brief notes on the relationship between aspects of Carli and Paniccia's psychoanalytic cultural research work and Aby Warburg's cultural history of art. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Two brief texts by Pier Francesco Galli are reprinted: the first one, entitled “Pasta and potatoes”, is the first contribution to a column entitled Minuzzaglie (“Bits and pieces”, or “Trifles”) in issue no. 1/2022 of the journal Psicoanalisi e dintorni (“Psychoanalysis and its surroundings”), which is the Bulletin of the Organizzazione di Psicoanalisti Italiani. Federazione e Registro (OPIFeR) (“Organization of Italian Psychoanalysts. Federation and Roster”); the second one is the presentation of that column. These two brief writings want to express the project of the column Minuzzaglie, which aims at collecting the many clinical experiences and anecdotes, even the minor ones, that characterize the daily practice of psychotherapy with all its difficulties and the expedients devised to overcome them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Playing music can be a form of symbolization and helpful in processing emotions. Research shows that therapists use music in clinical settings both as music therapy and as an adjunct therapy to talk therapy. However, unlike other forms of art, music is an objectless form of art, which makes it strikingly similar to inner subjective experiences. This means that the role musical instruments play to connect the two objectless sides is important but is difficult to define causation between the two. The purpose of this phenomenological qualitative research was to understand the role of the musical instrument and the role it plays as the transitional object for adults; the instrument was used as the breast object, in line with Klein's Object Relations Theory. There were 20 interviews with musicians of different ages, instruments, and skill levels to understand the experiences alongside the breast object. The results from the research reveal that participants anthropomorphized their musical instruments and subjectively perceived them as possessing parental attributes and the ones associated with romantic partners. The result can help inform therapists working with patients who have some musical skills to instill an endopsychic structure and repair the impacts of insecure attachment styles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The authors argue that there are good reasons for seriously considering the dynamics of the peer group when discussing psychoanalytical case material. The setting and procedure have to protect and facilitate for the presenter and the group members to work together. The aim of this paper is to discuss the problems connected with presenting and discussing clinical psychoanalytical material in a peer group and to describe one such specific method, which the authors call the Weaving Thoughts method. The design is primarily inspired by Bion's formulation thoughts in search of a thinker. The group participants reflect on the presented clinical material in a way that the authors metaphorically describe as creating a weave of thoughts that emerges from the material. The aim of the method is to facilitate a work-group climate that allows thoughts to wander about, and to avert group members from debating and compromising the integrity of its members by letting basic assumptions come into power. The method is described from theoretical and practical points of view, with two illustrations of seminars according to this design and finally a discussion of the advantages and drawbacks of the method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The first psychoanalytic couple and family therapy training associations were set up in France in the early 1980s. At the time, there were various influences, such as the systemic approach, mother-baby work and couple therapy. Among the pioneers were Jean Lemaire and André Ruffiot. Over time, the psychoanalytical approach to groups, following the work of Didier Anzieu (1985) and René Kaës (1976; 2007; 2015), became increasingly influential in both theoretical and clinical terms. There are now more than a dozen training associations, each with its own specific history, but all of which engage in frequent and fruitful exchanges. This article looks at the current state of the training process in France from a clinical perspective. Different frameworks are discussed, with a particular focus on online training. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Oedipus myth is foundational to depth psychology due to Freud's use of Sophocles' play Oedipus Rex in the creation of psychoanalysis. But analytical psychology's engagement with the myth has been limited despite the importance Jung also places upon it. The absence of a developed Jungian response to Oedipus means the myth's psychologically constructive elements have been overlooked in favour of reductive Freudian interpretations. I examine whether analytical psychology can fruitfully re‐engage with Oedipus by reinterpreting his story as a paternal rebirth. This is achieved by reincorporating those parts of the myth that occur before and after the period portrayed in Oedipus Rex. Such a move reintegrates Oedipus' father, King Laius, into the story and unveils important parallels with the alchemical trope of the king's renewal by his son. Using Jung's method of amplification, Oedipus is recast as Laius' redeemer and identified with the archetype of psychological wholeness, the Self. The contention is that such an understanding of Oedipus supports a clearer recognition of the potentially generative quality of human suffering, restoring to the myth the quality of moral instruction it possessed in antiquity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The political dimension finds various expressions in the sessions, from the most implicit to the most explicit. Yet as psychoanalysts we are less accustomed to listening to the conscious and unconscious social register. There is a certain tendency to theoretically include the individual and society but in clinical practice to separate the private from the public. To which extent can we evade the weight of external reality as the cause of psychic distress in an age of perpetual crisis? This paper aims to analyze some political and social aspects related to the analytic role by discussing opportunities and problems that arise when organizational forms of being with others become the object of dialogue with patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Thirty years after its publication, the Introduction by Pier Francesco Galli to the Italian edition (Anatomia della psicoterapia. Turin: Bollati Boringhieri, 1993, pp. XIII-XV) of Lawrence Friedman’s book The Anatomy of Psychotherapy (Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press, 1988) is reprinted. Lawrence Friedman’s original thought and his critical study of the history of ideas of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy are emphasized, and some critical reflections on the developments of psychoanalysis in the last decades are made. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Introduction to Morris N. Eagle’s book Subjective Experience: Its Fate in Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Philosophy of Mind (London: Routledge, 2024, in press) is pre-published. Subjective experience is of fundamental importance for the human being, and it is at the core of the feeling of being alive. However, it has traditionally been neglected by the disciplines that deal with the study of the mind (such as psychology, psychoanalysis, neuroscience and philosophy of mind). It has been variously viewed as an epiphenomenon, has been seen primarily as manifest content that hides and disguises unconscious latent meanings, and has been reduced to neural processes. Morris N. Eagle’s book Subjective Experience includes the following eight chapters: 1, Consciousness and subjective experience in psychology; 2, Consciousness and subjective experience in psychoanalysis; 3, Consciousness and subjective experience in philosophy of mind; 4, Are consciousness and subjective experience uninvestigable?; 5, Intersubjective experience; 6, Feelings and affects; 7, Consciousness and subjective experience as a continuum; 8, Some summing up and concluding comments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is now recognized that psychological trauma causes a more or less severe disorganization of psychological functions, depending on the impairment of the ability to mentalize and regulate affects. In traumatized individuals, traumatic memories remain in their minds and bodies as unassimilated contents dissociated from other mental functions. After reviewing the seminal contributions of Freud and Breuer, Janet, and contemporary authors (e.g., van der Kolk, van der Hart, Nijenhuis, and Meares) we propose a reading of W. G. Sebald’s novel Austerlitz (2001) according to a comprehensive psychoanalytic approach that takes into account the roles of trauma and dissociation. We want to show how the writer’s narrative confirms the most recent insights into the dynamics of trauma in our discipline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The conclusions of two recent books that evaluate Freud's adamant defense of his Oedipal theory and its effects on modern family life are distilled. Logical reconstruction reveals four pivotal arguments Freud presents in the Little Hans case history to support Oedipal theory. Each argument is brilliant in logic but unsound when compared to the case evidence. Lacking confirmation, Oedipal theory remains an ad hoc attempt to save Freud's sexual theory of the neuroses after the failure of the seduction theory. Regarding the theory's effects, its acceptance changed family power relations in Hans's family and modern families by creating a sense of danger in mother/son physical affection. This led to reduced parent/child physical affection and separation of young children from parents especially at bedtime. The child's "suspect bed" of the anti-masturbation campaign is thus exchanged for the parents' "protected bed," serving the new marital ideal of sexual and emotional satisfaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper attempts to reflect on the value and meaning of psychoanalysis as well as the very fact of what to be a psychoanalyst means. Psychoanalysis is seen as a path towards the possibility of obtaining greater degrees of freedom in life, within the limits of what is possible, by facing the desires, difficulties and fears that growing up entails, such as the need and the fear of needing other, or the very fantasy of being able to find ourselves deprived of the protection that our chains offer us. We don’t grow up alone, but benefiting from our family, as well as from friends and colleagues, from our own analysts and masters who have supported us in our training, searching for our own personal identity in which past experiences can be given new meaning in a new authenticity. A fragment of a clinical experience is presented in which analyst and patient meet, with their mutual personal histories, motivations, and desires, as people with different roles who decide to have a common intention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the philosophical, psychoanalytical, and linguistic framework of Luce Irigaray's project, the notion of mimesis holds a fundamental place. Exhibited by the author as a methodological research resource and as a political praxis, it is a strategy that seeks to dislocate the discursive order that sustains our Western culture, eminently phallocentric and patriarchal. This antidote against uniformity and the original-copy logic that governs our tradition is deployed in her work by virtue of three dimensions (Schor, 1993): masquerade, sly mimesis, and joyful reappropriation or positive difference. In what follows, and articulating these three senses, I am interested in mapping this notion by virtue of some moments of Irigaray's project, attending to its genealogical, ethical, and political aspects. Irigaray's wager on the transformative and creative sense of the resource of mimesis, as opposed to the sense of specular imitation that runs through our single-subject tradition, reflects the double task of his endeavour: the profound critique of the foundations of the Western tradition of thought and the need to generate the conditions for transforming an entire culture [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

L’articolo si concentrerà sulla questione della psicoanalisi in Tender Is the Night di Francis Scott Fitzgerald. In particolare, questa analisi vuole dimostrare come questo romanzo abbia uno speciale significato per analizzare il contesto storico del primo Novecento e i cambiamenti avvenuti nella psicoanalisi. Durante i ruggenti anni Venti si prestava molta attenzione ai disturbi psichici: emergeva la nuova scienza della psichiatria e si sperimentavano nuove terapie, tra cui l’ipnosi, la psicoanalisi, l’“ergoterapia” e la cura con l’elettroshock, la terapia della “rieducazione”, lo stress post-traumatico del meccanismo della “ripetizione”, tutto questo e molto di più è presente in Tender. Inoltre, il contenuto del romanzo è legato alla malattia mentale di Zelda Fitzgerald e al suo ricovero in una clinica psichiatrica svizzera nel 1930. Per questo motivo autobiografico, Fitzgerald diviene abbastanza informato da seguire il suo trattamento e una parte di ciò che ha appreso appare nel romanzo. Questo articolo esplorerà l’uso da parte di Fitzgerald del nascente freudismo e valuterà il peso e il significato del discorso e dei concetti psichiatrici utilizzati nel romanzo. Infine, il tema fondamentale dell’incesto nel romanzo può essere valutato come una malattia contagiosa che esprime una possibile metafora del declino della civiltà occidentale: in particolare, il discorso dell’ambiguità dei generi sessuali tradizionali, che divengono sempre più fluidi dopo la fine della Grande Guerra.

Attraverso una sorta di ‘viaggio nel tempo’, questo lavoro vuole darsi il compito di presentare un breve aggiornamento sui più recenti sviluppi del concetto di ‘cura del soggetto’ in psicoanalisi. In particolare, si pone qui l’accento sulla visione terapeutica che caratterizzava gli albori di questa disciplina, sostanzialmente orientata in senso unidirezionale dal terapeuta al paziente, e sul suo passaggio alla prospettiva attualmente invece dominante, che è diversa in quanto si fonda invece sul concetto di ‘mutualità’. In tale più recente visione, i cambiamenti nel tempo dell’assetto psichico del paziente traggono origine dai cambiamenti che il paziente stesso ha, per lo più inconsapevolmente, a sua volta prodotto nel tempo nell’assetto psichico del terapeuta che si è occupato e si sta occupando di lui. Tutto ciò sulla base di concetti e modelli che sono entrati nella sfera di interesse delle psicoanalisi soltanto in questi ultimi decenni, quali ad esempio la ‘Teoria del caos’ e le varie teorie sistemiche che si sono sviluppate a partire dalla ‘Teoria generale dei sistemi’ di Ludwig Von Bertalanffy sino ai più recenti modelli di interpretazione dei ‘Sistemi complessi dinamici non lineari’.

Within the clinical framework of a case of schizophrenic psychosis confronted with the lockdown, some destabilizing discoveries of quantum mechanics and its implications in neuroscience and psychoanalysis are introduced. Through fractal logic, the Author attempts attempt to understand on the one hand the relationship between microscopic phenomena and macroscopic processes of the psyche and on the other how the idea of reality changes through the counterintuitive laws of modern physics. This leads to the unconscious being described as a wave function capable of processing in parallel and simultaneously, countless overlapping variables, of which only the one considered most adaptive in the relationship with the environment is consciously elected. The complexity of the phenomenon of consciousness is studied here both in the interdependence between immaterial processes (energy fields) and material ones (cellular biochemistry), and in its indeterminacy and non-linearity when the reference context changes drastically. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In questo paper si intende inquadrare i rapporti dell’attivista italiano Mario Mieli con la psicoanalisi, per definirlo come “filosofo queer-freudiano”, nonché raffinato e innovativo interprete del testo di Freud: a questo fine, bisogna innanzitutto chiarire gli elementi di queerness contenuti nei Tre saggi sulla teoria sessuale, genialmente riletti negli Elementi di critica omosessuale di Mieli. Articolerò dunque la teoria dell’ermafroditismo psichico e della bisessualità costituzionale con quella dell’omoerotismo “educastrato”, filtrata dalla lente marcusiana del freudo-marxismo che media la ricezione del Freud di Mieli. La seconda via perseguita riguarda la de-patologizzazione della schizofrenia e l’indagine sulle sofferenze sintomatiche a partire dal nesso omosessualità-suicidio, visto dalla lente psicoanalitica, in un percorso che lega i tre “casi clinici” di Mario Mieli, dell’omosessuale freudiana Dora e dell’Herculine foucaultiana.

The contribution suggests a lecture of Nicola Pugliese’s novel Malacqua. Quattro giorni di pioggia nella città di Napoli in attesa che si verifichi un accadimento straordinario, in which we find a catastrophic natural event that puts a strain on the city from both the material and the cultural- psychological points of view. It tries, at least, to deal with the text from three points of view: the frirst one is the theory of the fantastic, because of the supernatural atmosphere that surrounds the catastrophe; the second one is that of the literary-anthropological studies about the representation of the apocalypse; the last one is the thougt of the waiting/expectation as a typical narrative theme of contemporary writing. Pugliese’s novel didn’t turn out to be a speech aimed to the representation of the apocalyptic instant, that is to say ‘detector of the disaster’. On the contrary it has proven to be a speech designed to the expectation of this ‘extraordinary event’ that can shake from the foundations each perceptive-cognitive category.

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This paper compares presentations of disorders of the sense of body ownership and agency from psychoanalytic and neurological perspectives to demonstrate similarities in symptomatology proposing these similarities arise from adjustments in Friston's generative model of self-organization and selfhood. The implications for the analytic model of the Self, for clinical practice and for neuroscience research are considered. Patients with narcissistic disorders use projective defences resulting in a disordered sense of what belongs to whom. This applies to mind and body of self and other and is central to understanding transference and countertransference. Clinical observations of this disordered sense of ownership and agency mirror findings in neurological disorders. This paper proposes that in both neurological and psychological disorders Friston's 'internal generative model' of selfhood is adjusted. Further to this whilst this adjustment may be either neurogenic or psychogenic, the final neural mechanism and symptomatic outcome are similar. On the basis of these observations the paper compares the concept of the Self from Jungian and psychoanalytic perspectives. Finally, the implications for the concept of the death instinct and Britton's concept of Xenophobia are explored along with the implications of these observations for clinical practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the second novel by Mario Spinella, distinguished Marxist intellectual founder of the magazine «Utopia» (1971-1973), and aims to investigate the ways in which the conventions of dystopic literature are assumed in an ironic key (in line with the author's experimental poetics) without renouncing the vehement denunciation of the social order of the neo-capitalist polis (an ideological position in dialogue with the elaboration, by the exponents of the Frankfurt School, of a radical critique of the System). Spinella's inclination for the human sciences pushes him in Conspiratio oppositorum to bring into play the psychoanalytic categories (from Freud to Lacan: Spinella was among the animators of the magazine «Il piccolo Hans»), political (the book, written from 1968 to 1971, attempts to verify the topicality of the concept of class conflict) and divergent thinking (the ‘unreliable’ perspective of the insane, common to the contemporary novels of Volponi and Malerba, is made to interact with Foucaultian theories on the total institution).

The art movements of Cubism and Abstract Expressionism, influenced by Jung and Freud, emerged as a symbolic representation of the collective unconscious, and became an expression of the challenging times of a culture in transition. Similar to the technique of interpretation in psychoanalysis, Cubist painting was a method of demarcation, rather than an imitation of what was seen in the physical world. Also, as an expression of collective experience, the avant-garde movement of Abstract Expressionism emerged out of Cubism. It moved away from the logical idealism of Cubism into an expression of felt experience. This paper will review the art of the avant-garde Cubist and Abstract Expressionist movements. The psychology of the artistic process will be explored in relation to psychoanalysis and collective experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This co-written editorial by the two guest editors of this special 'field' edition of the journal outlines some of the most important roots of psychoanalytic field theory, from Lewin to the Barangers to Bion and Ferro. It introduces the articles that follow, by Mazzacane, Civitarese, Boffito, Fagundes and Mojovic, and touches on some of their implications for theory and practice. It concludes with acknowledgements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author reflects on Field Theory, a clinical concept that prioritizes lived experience in the consulting room, and that, thanks to its plasticity, has evolved and made a big contribution to psychoanalysis. Without dwelling in detail on the theory, the author delves into his working relationship with three patients, an infant, an adolescent and an elderly man, reporting, within the bounds of confidentiality, the microscopy of the analytical encounter. The psychoanalyst considers these to be emotionally true encounters of rare beauty. The psychoanalyst highlights the construction of a dynamic field in which the analyst and patient are co-authors of a truth, in a deep meeting of both their minds. The psychoanalyst draws attention to the fact that empathy with suffering, with the mental pain of the patient, is the vehicle for forming a partnership and together living the dream of the session, so that both partners are in unison with the truth of the moment, in the here-and-now of the session. It is a living moment, which can only be experienced when the psychoanalyst is committed to being human. It is impossible to narrate in its entirety. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

«From psychoanalysis to juridical thought» (Contri, 1994): this is the direction of the theoretical thinking of Giacomo B. Contri (1941-2022), a Freudian after Lacan, as shown in the articles and interviews published in the journal Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane [Psychotherapy and the Human Sciences] from 1989 to 2016, which we retrace here. Contri develops a revolutionary paradigm, with the twofold result of advancing the science of the unconscious inaugurated by Freud and correcting the errors of his master: «From Lacan I learned to be a Freudian» (Guerrieri & Contri, 1993, p. 103). If the unconscious is a third law after nature and nurture, since the thought elaborates the conditions of satisfaction from the very beginning by means of another person, the psychoanalyst treats the unconscious in crisis by means of the thought itself. The step taken by Contri in 2010 was decisive: noting that a School leaves the teacher/pupil model intact - mass psychology - he founded the Società Amici del Pensiero "Sigmund Freud" [Society of Friends of Thought "Sigmund Freud"], thus radicalizing the detachment from the Lacanian paradigm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In questo articolo l’autore tende a mostrare come possa funzionare l’integrazione tra ricerca clinica e ricerca empirica secondo il modello della perturbazione reciproca tra i dati e le osservazioni prodotte da due distinti sistemi di conoscenza. Viene messa in evidenza come esista un forte influenzamento della ricerca clinica sulle ipotesi che vengono testate negli studi empirici e il potenziale effetto dei dati empirici sulla chiarificazione e messa a fuoco di questioni fondamentali per la pratica clinica e la riuscita dei trattamenti. Da qui il potenziamento di ‘buone pratiche’ rispetto ad errori e importanti disconoscimenti dei fattori che determinano l’esito delle terapie. Conseguentemente l’interesse si orienta sui percorsi formativi nella prospettiva di favorire un approccio in cui l’attenzione del clinico in formazione si equilibra tra ‘punti di ancoraggio’ osservabili, mutuati dalla ricerca, approfondimenti intuitivi e quei pattern descrittivi derivati dalla esperienza clinica che arricchiscono la letteratura psicoanalitica.

Global living standards have increased considerably as a result of the progress brought about by human civilization. However, ecological crises, global nuclear armament and an increasing sense of psychological discontent are among a list of things that bring into question the nature of modernity. Often these large-scale collective issues seem too overwhelming for the individual to ponder in any great depth and thus the question, 'how are we, as individuals, supposed to address the problems facing broader humanity?' remains. This paper suggests that it is the underlying conceptual dualisms that prevent an answer to this question, and by mapping the interaction between psyche and civilization, the actions necessary to correct the trajectory of Western civilization may become apparent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers a reading of some significant works by Giuseppe Penone starting from a key theme of his scultural practice: the skin. These works are connected with Didier Anzieu’s essay, The Skin-Ego in which is specified the fundamental role of the skin in the human being, in particular in the formation of an ego – filter and interface between the subject and his milieu – and in which he suggests the idea of a “creative skin” recently resumed by Stéphane Dumas as a paradigm of artistic creation.

This paper aims to contribute to the reflection on clinical psychological intervention with a psychoanalytic orientation capable of intervening within the most different contexts, while maintaining its specificity. The goal of this contribution is to develop a thought on the psychoanalytic function within the juvenile court and in particular with respect to the role of the juvenile honorary judge. Through an exploration of the context of the juvenile court and the role of the juvenile honorary judge, we intend to build a hypothesis on the possibility, in a context crossed by an individualistic, prescriptive and factual culture, to reintegrate elements of subjectivity, relationship and context; the goal is to deal with the competence of families to manage the events of coexistence and to contain violence, which risks becoming exasperated within the culture of prescriptions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this work is to deal with the models of psychoanalytic intervention in support of the development of relational competence within the school organization. For this purpose, through the reporting methodology, we will discuss the construction of a psychotherapeutic function within a service of “counselling and psychological support in the context of strategies to prevent disadvantage and early school leaving” in a Roman high school. We intend to highlight how an interpretation of the social mandate regarding dropout and early school leaving through a model of intervention that considers not the individual, but the individual – context relationship, has allowed the promotion of relational competence in a way that was useful for the achievement of the school’s objectives. First, a critical synthesis of the history of psychological intervention in the school, from the roles that organized it to the laws that regulated its presence, will be proposed by reconstructing the culture that has contributed to the current symbolisation of this intervention as mainly individualistic. Then, we will propose the usefulness, for psychotherapeutic intervention in the school, of a model of the individual – context relationship; finally, we will account for how the intervention has developed within the school. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work aims at contributing to the development of hypotheses regarding the intervention on motherhood, which can support the creation of psychoanalytically oriented services. In particular, an intervention addressed to new mothers that was carried out in the first semester of the pandemic will be reported. In this work, the experience of motherhood is intended as the product of a shared symbolization within the systems of social coexistence, rather than a given change that one has to adapt to in a conformist way. Through the intervention it was possible to find that considering motherhood as a cultural event opens up the possibility for new mothers to identify desires and resources that can be activated to pursue them within the relationships they are involved in. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The writing remarks on the beautiful and original book by Paolo Milone, in its undoubted literary quality and at the same time in its value as a testimony about the difficult task of taking care of madness. It is also an opportunity to return to the tangled thread that is the relationship between psychiatry and psychoanalysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the current collective unrest, we and our analysands are living in real time and need vantage points from which to make meaning, as subjective experience of time is collapsing. For many analysands, the past is being relived in the present, with no imaginable future. During the time of COVID-19, dreams are providing a valuable mechanism in working with atemporal emotional trauma, previously uncontextualized. Dream metaphor can provide a transitional space to move around in within the analytic framework. This paper explores a variety of dreams from individual analysands demonstrating different ways of conceptualizing personal and collective experience, bridging between the past, present, and future. Parallels between feeling states related to the current condition and unprocessed implicit memories from the past will be examined, as a vehicle for processing past trauma. Dreams expressing current states of dread for an unimaginable future, as well compensatory dreams showing a hopeful vision of the future will be considered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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