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Teoria dell’attaccamento e psicoanalisi. Considerazioni su patologia e terapia

Wed, 15 Mar 2011 8:00:00 GMT

Marcello Panero
The article takes into consideration the large amount of papers and works about the implications of the Attachment Theory and its recent developments on the adults’ diagnosis and psychotherapy. Convergencies and differences with psychoanalytic theory and clynics are discussed here. The paper questions the usefulness of the classifications and measures derived from Strange Situation, Adult Attachment Interview and Reflexive Function Scale, Particularly, it points out the implications of the "language coherence" concept and the meaning of the "safety" concept within the Attachment Theory and in the psychoanalytic psychotherapy, first of all concerning the therapist’s role of "attachment figure". Finally, Bateman & Fonagy’s "therapy based on mentalization" and the dialectics between the "development of psychological fundamental functions", the exploration of conflicts and interpretations are taken into consideration.

Gli aspetti psicologici della diagnosi prenatale: uno spazio comune di prevenzione tra il somatico e lo psichico

Wed, 15 Mar 2011 8:00:00 GMT

Sylvain Missonnier
Sylvain Missonnier stresses the "extreme" nature of the pre-birth diagnosis, that has become a standard routine in Maternal Wards nowadays. If a new-born hits the enigmatic foundations of our being, an embryon or a foetus drives us to assume stronger defences, that root in the "uncanny" domain. Particularly, the visual encounter with a foetus by ecography produce a large arrow of strong paradoxical reactions into the staff. They lead to unescapable uncertainties and anticipatory processes. The Author shows his consulting interventions in individual, couple and family settings, the group birth-preparing activities, the Balint groups with the medical, nursery and ecographist staff in the Maternal Ward. All those activities let them build the "group psychic apparatus" (René Kaës); it "carries out a particular psychic working, that is to produce and hand the psychic reality of the group and within the group". The paper focuses on the clinics of informing parents that their foetus/new born presents some disability, of scheduling the labour (labour by appointment) and of lightening the ecographic results. As a psychoanalyst, Missonnier starts from the triangular exchange between the foetus’ pictures, parents and ecographists, so determinig the dynamics of the parenting processes. The potential role of the ecographic encounter between these tree subjects is to organize the psychical parenting and to constitute a stepping stone for a multidisciplinary cooperation in order to accept the diagnosis and its implications on the individual and social elaboration of the tremendous uncertainty due to a conception that stands and opens between death, informity and monsterbounderies.

I segni ambigui: psicoanalisi del soggetto etico

Wed, 15 Mar 2011 8:00:00 GMT

Davide Cavagna
The article points out the topic of ambiguity through a psychoanalytic inquiry of the ethic subject. First the author explains the distinction between morals and ethics, then he outlines the main psychoanalytic contributions on the topic. The critical reading of one famous novel by Jonathan Littell, The Kindly Ones, follows, in order to light the ambiguous signs of the dis-recognition of the unconscious level, that are the specific markers of the ethic subject. Finally, several figures of ambiguity are drawn, which we meet in the psychoanalytic work.

L’ambiguità e la responsabilità del terapeuta

Wed, 15 Mar 2011 8:00:00 GMT

Daniela Federici
The author intends to develop a reflection on the possible causal links between certain tendencies of our contemporary era and the expression of new forms of discontents, by hypothesizing that the primitive anxieties are being exacerbated in our society because of an imperfect development of the thought processes to work out them. For the therapist, the delicate balance between the respect for the patient’s self determination and their own disalienating function reveals interesting and complex nuances. The reflection on society’s discomforts becomes an important epistemic indicator because it compels us to question ourselves with respect to what our beliefs are on what is developmental and what constitutes our ideal of a person’s subjectivization. If conformism is able to sabotage the identificatory process and to compromise the ideal of moral functioning due to adaptive restructuring, then it is crucial to be vigilant from both the ethical and clinical standpoint with respect to everything in today’s culture that opposes thought and causes one to fail to question one’s own existence.

Psicoterapia psicoanalitica dell’autismo infantile: storia o attualità?

Wed, 15 Mar 2011 8:00:00 GMT

Paolo Vassallo

Un ossimoro praticabile

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Secondo Giacobbi

"Il Professore" visto dalla luna

Wed, 15 Mar 2011 8:00:00 GMT

Mattia Maggioni

Per una psicoanalisi che guardi oltre i suoi confini

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Gioia Gorla

Notizie

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