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.
Course Content - Last names L-Z
The course intends to deepen the bases of the psychoanalytic model of the mind, the topographic model and the structural model. The main authors in the field of psychodynamics, the theory of object relations and the theory of the self will be studied in depth and the key constructs in this area will be analyzed. The course also intends to deepen the psychodynamic diagnosis of personality disorders and the principal steps in the clinical case formulation.
-Morris, E. (2011)From Classical To Contemporary Psychoanalysis: A Critique and Integration.
From Classical To Contemporary Psychoanalysis: A Critique and Integration
Close reading of original papers, provided on the Moodle platform.
McWilliams, N. (2012). Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process.
McWilliams, N. (1999).Psychoanalytic Case Formulation.
Auchincloss, E.L. (2015). The Psychoanalytic Model of the Mind
Learning Objectives - Last names A-K
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
Learning Objectives - Last names L-Z
a) General objectives: to promote the student's professional development through knowledge of the psychodynamic approach and psychoanalytic theory of the mind;
b) Specific objectives: To introduce the history of the development of psychoanalysis and the fundamental psychodynamic concepts. Illustrate a series of psychoanalytic models dealing with normal and pathological development and psychic functioning. Understanding the main personality disorders from a psychodynamic point of view.
Prerequisites - Last names A-K
No
Prerequisites - Last names L-Z
None
Teaching Methods - Last names A-K
lectures, seminars, close reading exercises, observational and clinical materials discussions
Expected learning outcomes (knowing, knowing how to do, knowing how to be)
To know: To introduce and improve the knowledge of psychodynamic thinking
Know-how: Develop the ability to apply psychoanalytic intuition in the workplace with adults, children, adolescents and groups and the ability to integrate observation and theory in the workplace
Knowing how to be: To broaden and deepen the awareness and understanding of human development, human relations and the interaction between the external and internal world.
Type of Assessment - Last names A-K
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)
Type of Assessment - Last names L-Z
Written: closed and open questions
Course program - Last names A-K
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
Course program - Last names L-Z
The course aims to provide the student the theoretical tools related to the psychodynamic approach in order to promote the clinical reasoning. After analyzing the thinking of the main authors in the psychoanalytic and psychodynamic fields (Freud; Jung; Kohut; Kernberg; Fonagy etcc ..) the course aims to provide the tools to formulate an integrated psychodynamic diagnosis for arriving at a personalized case formulation. In particular, the course aims to understand and analyze the various personality disorders with reference to the defense mechanisms, the capacity for mentalization, the ability to establish relationships, the transference and countertransference, and other elements considered useful in the diagnosis in the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual in its second edition (PDM-2).