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Presentation, Disease and the Group

10 May 2012/in Disease and the Group, Raffaella Girelli/by @dmin

I have the pleasure of presenting NO 18 of Funzione Gamma: “Disease and the Group”. On the whole, the different contributions in this number have the aim of exploring the notion of disease and pointing out how such a notion acquires a greater complexity, and is enriched conjunctively with further keys to the reading and therapeutic potentialities when the phenomenon disease is seen and treated in a small analytical group. The interest in deepening the notion of disease has absorbed Claudio Neri and his chair (Basis of group dynamics) for many years by setting up connection with experts coming from different disciplines Read more

The conception of Disease: historical, anthropological and clinical observations

10 May 2012/in Claudio Neri, Disease and the Group, Raffaella Girelli/by @dmin

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The authors present a dialogue aimed at illuminating the concept of disease, within a complex and multidisciplinary. Following a historical development of the concept, are first identified the elements of the value of Hippocratic medicine, and then articulate the notion with the developments that it has received as part of psychoanalysis and group psychoanalysis. To better understand the concept of disease in the latter area, are also used contributions from the anthropological studies of some cultures that have Read more

Disorders heal each other in Group Analysis – a relation pathology perspective

10 May 2012/in Disease and the Group, Robi Friedman/by @dmin

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In this article, the author discusses the concept of pathology in its relational aspects, and the ability to obtain a therapeutic effect by group analysis, which takes into account both intrapsychic experiences, both interpersonal attitudes. The novelty consists in considering the relational disorders according to a broader view, considering the effectiveness of the therapeutic effects are obtained by group analysis that is able to manage the relationship patterns, rather than focusing only on the individual. The Read more

The disease of a person and a group unaware of being it

10 May 2012/in Disease and the Group, Luisa de Bellis/by @dmin

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Reflecting on a clinical history with a happy end, on an event which has, all of a sudden, unexpectedly, given back to much more than it had seemed we had been involved with, is without any doubt passionate; but I want at once to move out of any suspicion I want to do << wild psychosomatic>>. (Ferro 2006) how one could suppose from the Read more

The group in a Mental Health Ward on listening to the suffering of the Self

10 May 2012/in Disease and the Group, Giuseppe Di Leone, Giusy Dittoni, Martina Lucini/by @dmin

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The authors of this paper emphasize the importance of group psychotherapy has in recent years in the Mental Health Centers. The individual psychotherapeutic work, was considered more profitable, while contact with the group was considered as a source of disturbance and threat to the individual. In time and ‘happened to the group process enhancement. The Read more

The specificities of the analytical setting in institutional situations

10 May 2012/in Disease and the Group, Egle Giardina/by @dmin

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In this article, the author explores the dynamics that develop in an analytic setting within an institution, which becomes the container of multiple psychic functions, and in turn interferes with the structural and symbolic dimensions of the setting.
In the institutional context, the different, and the gratuitousness of the setting, make the complex job of processing and Read more

Communication in surgical theatre An innovation at “Agostino Gemelli”

10 May 2012/in Albertina Del Lungo, Daniele Malizia, Disease and the Group, Laura Minguell, Massimiliano Luciani/by @dmin

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A new experience since 2004, sees these trainees in the surgical area of the Psychologists’ University Hospital Agostino Gemelli in Rome, called in Surgical Theatre. The service, made the start on the initiative of Pietro Bria, Analyst S.P.I. and Primary Institute of Psychiatry, as a journey with very few methodological details, but rich in ideas, images and personal experiences. Soon, “learning experience” has begun to define a ‘”transitional area” between the inside and outside, between the body and mind, between the word and look. A corridor, metaphorical and mental, that Psychologists involved in service have learned to walk smoothly by bringing together patients, relatives, health care. Their function is to carry the emotion, form and content, resulting in a
context, so highly technical and specialized, with a space of dignity and the recognition of their co-primacy. Well known in the literature specifically related anxiety of waiting for a surgery. Anxiety often more acute and disturbing in relative rather than the person concerned. In the latter, however, the presence of an acute anxiety state, and untreated, can be dysfunctional to the same effect of anesthesia and Read more

Balint groups: place and space of knowledge of the sickness as experienced in the operator-patient relationship

10 May 2012/in Disease and the Group, Domenico Agresta/by @dmin

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This article contains insights and considerations by the author on Balint groups, and especially on the therapeutic relationship between the operator and patient.
In the group, the doctor uses himself as a “drug” and while the speaker speaks of a clinical case experience, relives this story in the hic et nunc .
The group leader and therefore observe the countertransference of the speakerand therefore the group Read more

Illness and cure. Ritual contexts of sharing

10 May 2012/in Alfredo Lombardozzi, Disease and the Group/by @dmin

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The disease event, in this article, is examined both from an individual perspective, and socially. Thus, in Western society, the parameters of individual psychology are rethought in group psychotherapy, in a manner such as to create conditions to facilitate the sharing of suffering and disease.In different contexts, rituals, suffering, disease, and the states of crisis, are addressed in complex rituals of social sharing of the disease. Therefore, there is a connection point between traditional therapies in the contexts of native Read more

The use of the therapeutic group in the cure of serious organic illnesses

10 May 2012/in Disease and the Group, Maurizio Salis/by @dmin

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The article describes the author’s experience with cancer patients. The therapeutic institution as well as offering space and hospitality, from ‘the opportunity to rethink your situation not only in organic terms, but also psychological. In the paths of these groups shows a thought linked to the disease, linked to the vicissitudes of life, where the disease becomes an opportunity Read more