Presentation
Abstract
In this presentation I describe the positions of this issue alternating between the crisis areas of psychiatry and the resources of groups in their various forms, without forgetting to look at the social and clinical Read more
Acknowledgements
The most important acknowledgements in this era of the middle are those intended, “upstream and downstream”, for those people who have helped us exist and find a dreamibility of experience.
Thanks to Stefania Marinelli and Claudio Neri for the continuity of their activities and the development of “works” for a perspective on the care of mental disorders, accompanying the complexity of our growth, with the knowledge of how fortunate we are to be alive, not just biologically, but in living thoughts as they evolve. The gratitude I feel towards them is also linked to my affection for having looked after my “child thoughts”, long ago, with respect and acceptance; it is precisely the acceptance of thoughts, without the fear that they may not be perfect or complete, that allows us to think them again, to “assemble and disassemble” them, exercising doubt in temporarily losing certainties in order to recompose others. Read more
Family field therapy: from the dialogue between generations of therapists to that with contemporary patients. A clinical research project on therapy for individuals and their transgenerational family field
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This text is dedicated to research on the setting and therapy provided by a research team that worked on the relationship between the extended family mind and the individual, where the former becomes an ectopic storage space for the individual’s content. The team acts as a container for issues that the individuals of the family group Read more
In my mind, in our mind
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The work starts from an experience of conducting a homogeneous group with eating disorders with the variant of the insertion of a male subject in a group of women.
The therapeutic factors of group dynamics and emotional growth of patients and therapists were Read more
Generations of analysts, generations of patients: non-symbolizable destructiveness in contemporary patients
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This article focuses on contemporary psychological problems, given the frequent difficulties in analytic work with patients and the relevance of contemporary analytical treatments. The author gives a particular attention to destructiveness and provides a working hypothesis with patients that present a deficit in symbolization. It seems important to develop areas of psychic work not only bounded in the relationship between two subjects, but that are also widespread in the mental state of a generation or more generations. It seems also important to identify a group/state of mind that exists between different longitudinal degrees of kinship. In addition, this work takes place in an area that, I imagine, exists before, or around, the psychoanalytic treatment, even if it involves analytical thought, without which it would have no meaning. These themes are treated from the perspective of destructiveness, of desubjectification, and the difficulty of symbolization, as conditions that Read more
Psychoanalytic supervision and consultancy: promoting containment and support in institutions
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In conjunction with personal analysis and theory/technique seminars, clinical supervision represents one of the three pillars of psychoanalytic training. Since several years, however, ‘supervision’ is also a term which describes consulting for staff groups in health and social institutions, a practice standing at the crossroad between training and consultancy, offered to teams more and more heterogeneous and involved in an often confused network of related services. The Authors developed their hypotheses by reflecting about their work as consultants/supervisors providing staff support systems within various institutions. The first part of the paper focuses on similarities and differences between individual and institutional supervision, with particular attention to clinical supervision, experiential team building, organizational development, and the issues involved in the relationship, overlapping and conflict among training, support and administrative functions. The second part examines the notion of institutional container, word which has become a magical passepartout in healthcare organizations. The AA explore the functions implied by such notion in the light of: Winnicott’s concept of ‘holding’; Pichon-Rivière and Bleger’s concepts of ‘deposit’ and ‘context’; Bion’s theory of container/contained; Abadi’s paper on paradigmatic shift from the boundary to the network. The last part discusses how the so called ‘managed care’ has indeed created new institutional scenarios. The AA look at the analysis of Read more
Monosymptomatic groups with anorexic and boulimic patients and basic assumptions: the somatic dimension in these patients and the position of the analyst
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It is important to reflect upon Bion’s concepts about the basic group, as these groups are more and more growing. Many of them are centred and formed upon a symptomatology in which the somatic dimension is an important part in the subject disease entering the group. I believe that the first Bion purpose (1), -concerning his reflections upon basic assumptions – was to give a method and not only a theory to be tested Read more