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Abstract: Angelo Silvestri The author, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal, referring to an extended conception of the mind, articulated between somatic and cultural dimensions, reflects on what the training needs for the psychoanalytic psychotherapist of the twenty-first centu-ry are. He proposes that the latter should be able to pass through this multi-layered complexity. He then briefly illustrates the contents of this booklet by highlighting three main nuclei: the theme dedicated to addictions without substance, the reflec-tion on the Fiesole Experiential Workshop and the challenge of multiculturality. PubDate: Sun, 15 Feb 2020 8:00:00 GMT
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Abstract: Luciana Bianchera, Giorgio Cavicchioli, Stefano Mennella, Angelo Silvestri, Alessandra Furin, Cristiano Di Salvo In this interview Salvatore Inglese, an Italian psychiatrist and a pioneer of eth-nopsychiatry, discusses the current, international migration phenomenon with some members of the Gruppi editorial board. Various issues are approached, such as the conflict between the wish to meet and mingle with strangers and the need to experience a strong feeling of belonging, guaranteed by well-defined borders and traditions. If experiencing a conflictual feeling when meeting a foreigner is una-voidable and accepting to take care of his/her needs inescapable, then ethnopsy-chiatry is very much at the forefront when trying to face the unbridgeable differ-ence between the parties involved. The very theoretical assumptions of Western clinical practice and psychopathology are therefore questioned, and special con-sideration is given to those who are directly involved in offering assistance to im-migrants in the welcoming communities. As far as theoretical assumptions are concerned, Salvatore Inglese deals with three further subjects: the unconscious and the group, which are seen as natural elements, and the therapeutic setting, which is described as a well-defined element which can highlight and dynamize the relationship between the two former elements. Special reference is made to Georges Devereux’s and Tobie Nathan’s works when discussing how linguistic dif-ficulties influence the setting arrangement. As for providing care to caregivers, rel-evance is given to the necessary effort to bear with the feeling of "estrangement" which is experienced when trying to cast a bridge between diversities that are dif-ficult to reconcile. PubDate: Sun, 15 Feb 2020 8:00:00 GMT
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Abstract: Nicoletta Jacobone This short paper offers an introduction to the use of psychodynamically ori-ented group therapy in treating pathological addiction. The current forms of addic-tion are rooted in narcissistic frailty, a condition in which individuals often resort to various forms of addiction in an attempt to counterbalance a frail and vulnera-ble Self. PubDate: Sun, 15 Feb 2020 8:00:00 GMT
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Abstract: Antonia Morelli, Giuseppe Parisi, Cristina Marogna The main objective of this article is to highlight the phenomenon of love addiction both theoretically and clinically, treated in a psychodynamic oriented therapy group aimed at women only. It was primarily considered an overview of laws protecting women victims of gender-based violence. Subsequently, after considering the group therapeutic factors, emphasis was placed on the inclusion of a silent observer, in order to understand any changes in women’s hostile perception of the male figure. Particular attention has been paid to the participants’ life stories and predominant emotions, through clinical examples. The method used for conducting the group is based on the psycho-dynamic psychoanalytic model, through the analysis of the dynamics of transference-countertransference, dreams and associations. The conclusions reached, in agreement with the literature, confirm the fundamental role of the childhood experience of abandonment and neglect in the genesis of affective addiction in adulthood, the intense need for childhood love to be satisfied as the basis and presupposition for the future capacity to love, the progressive perception of freedom by women in telling themselves in front of a non-judging male figure, and the decisive role of the group framework in supporting and promoting the well-being of the participants. PubDate: Sun, 15 Feb 2020 8:00:00 GMT
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Abstract: Fabrizio Seripa In this article we wanted to show the functioning of the Rien ne va plus group, an outpatient project promoted by CeIS Roma onlus aimed at addictions without substances in particular at the Pathological Gambling Game GAP. To do this, the historical and methodological framework of the CeIS institution was described, before entering the clinical practice of the group also characterized by the use of Analytical Psychodrama. The Rien ne va plus group combines work on abstinence and on compulsion with an analytical one of a dynamic nature. PubDate: Sun, 15 Feb 2020 8:00:00 GMT
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Abstract: Michelangelo Grenci , Irene Fonti Some reflections are proposed, exchanged at a distance between a teacher and a pupil, on the presentation of the Atlas of Group Analysis by Paola Marinelli and Fiora Pezzoli, held on October 4, 2019, at the Turin headquarters of the School of Psychotherapy of COIRAG. Thanks to the unusual dialogical model adopted, for which the contributions of the teacher and the pupil follow each other intertwin-ing, the warm, affective meeting’s atmosphere between authors and present is well highlighted. The educational value of the Atlas fully stands out both for those ap-proaching Group analysis, and for those who, already formed, want to deepen the concepts and meaning that has within the culture COIRAG. PubDate: Sun, 15 Feb 2020 8:00:00 GMT
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Abstract: Matteo Albertinelli The author proposes a critical reading of an article where Donald Fairbairn ex-presses his point of view on the rehabilitative function of group psychotherapy. The author begins by contextualizing Fairbairn’s article in its own historical period, which was characterized by Bion and Foulkes’ discoveries at Northfield’s. Follow-ing an article by Hinshelwood, the author utilizes the characteristics of the work of the latters as an example of two particular dimensions of group psychotherapy, that of treatment and that of rehabilitation, which are compare in Fairbairn’s arti-cle. Fairbairn essentially proposes: 1) that patients who have a compromised rela-tionship with the group they belong to benefit more from rehabilitation interven-tions than from treatment interventions; 2) that group psychotherapy has a preva-lently rehabilitative nature. To comment on Fairbairn’s work, the author then pro-poses to analyse the concept of rehabilitation both as something that supposes to manifest the limits of group psychotherapy and also as the expression of the weight of external reality in group psychotherapy.The author is especially con-cerned with the usefulness of thinking about reality as a presence inside of a sub-ject’s mind; the author proposes that starting from this point of view would make it more clear how rehabilitative intervention and group psychotherapy work to re-establish a dialogue between a subject and the reality outside and inside him. PubDate: Sun, 15 Feb 2020 8:00:00 GMT
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Abstract: Clara Cortellazzi The article deals with the 6th edition of Franco Fasolo’s days, essential educa-tional and research meeting organized by COIRAG and open only to members or graduated. Main topic of 2019 edition was the internal institutional changement in COIRAG, due to a new Legislative Decree (n.117/2017). It forces the Association to selfexplore different methodologies to launch a deep reorganization process. This project aims to an evolution into an institution able to aggregate, design and supply services with public interest. Switching by medium and wide group works, partecipants focused themselves on different topics, turning on a generative and developmental debate. PubDate: Sun, 15 Feb 2020 8:00:00 GMT
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Abstract: Maria Cristina Gatto Rotondo The author explains some brief reflections taken from the reworking made as "internal" observer in the context of an Asvegra day reserved to the members and focused on the transformations of the institutional and organisational structure of COIRAG. The writing underline the evolutionary scope of the steps under way, taking into consideration what has been experienced "there and then" but neces-sarily placing itself on another level, which concerns the possibility of traveling in the delicate boundaries among inside and outside, with the aim of making a good link between thought and communication. PubDate: Sun, 15 Feb 2020 8:00:00 GMT
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Abstract: Alessandra Furin PubDate: Sun, 15 Feb 2020 8:00:00 GMT
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Abstract: Antonino Aprea In this short paper Antonino Aprea, the dean of the COIRAG Institute for train-ing in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, describes the National Workshop institu-tional framework. The author underlines how this event reflects the epistemology of the COIRAG Association, which the Institute is part of. The National Workshop - whose title is: "Polis: psyche, culture and society" - is a distinctive feature of the COIRAG Institute training program, both in terms of methodology and train-ing objectives. In fact, the Workshop device was specifically conceived so as to provide psycho¬therapists-to-be with first-hand experience of one’s own cultural and social matrix. PubDate: Sun, 15 Feb 2020 8:00:00 GMT
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Abstract: Giuliana Tonoli, Claudia Guidi, Alice Mulasso The following paper is the first of a series of contributions with the aim of highlighting the value of the National Workshop as an essential part of the COIRAG advanced training program in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. After a brief survey of its historical origins and a description of its format from its incep-tion till 2014, the authors describe the Workshop’s current formula which foresees participation of all trainees - 1st to 4th year included - attending the COIRAG insti-tute in five centres across Italy. Special mention is made of all distinctive elements of this training device: among others, heterogeneity in group formation; the pos-sibility for trainees to experience different and yet intertwined settings; its residen-tial setting. A section of this paper is devoted to highlighting the training value of the enlarged group as proposed in the Workshop program. All these traits are unique and cannot be compared to any other training context. Mention is made of further training elements which are peculiar of the ongoing Workshop mainte-nance, such as continual attention to the holding environment and conduction by the professors’ team. Experiencing different settings favours the emergence of themes, phenomena and dynamics linked to social and cultural aspects, thus offer-ing the chance to explore the meaning of citizenship (being citizens of the COIRAG training community) and the social unconscious. In this paper, special attention is given to the first emerging theme that characterized past Workshop editions: technology. PubDate: Sun, 15 Feb 2020 8:00:00 GMT
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Abstract: Cristina Testa, Alice Mulasso, Roberta Biolcati, Benedetto Gustini In this paper Cristina Testa, who has been the Workshop director since 2016, and three group conductors of experiential, large and median groups discuss their experience as Workshop staff members. Some members of the Osservatorio board prepared a series of questions exploring what the COIRAG Workshop really was, what its origins were and how it changed in the course of the years. The Workshop director and the group conductors were also asked to describe this pecu-liar training device and to produce an image expressing their feelings both as staff members and as individuals taking part to experiential groups. Since the interview focused on one and the same experience, the interviewees’ answers were somehow similar, yet they also revealed each conductor’s specific, methodological and technical viewpoint. PubDate: Sun, 15 Feb 2020 8:00:00 GMT
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Abstract: Alessandra Furin, Silvia Formentin, Chiara Cucchiara, Samir Koshakji, Matteo Albertinelli, Alessandra Malmesi, Paola Merlin Baretter, Simone Schirinzi, Francesco Rizzo, Vincenza Avallone This paper was written by a group of COIRAG trainees and postgraduates. They all answered a series of questions aiming at collecting impressions and feel-ings tied with the national Workshop, one of the most challenging and interesting parts of their training. All interviewees gave very personal and diversified, yet somehow similar answers. The Workshop residential setting seems to touch train-ees deeply, while arising feelings such as disorientation, fragmentation and anger. However, final feelings of enrichment and gratitude offer each trainee a chance to dream, to find new meanings, to verbalize aspects of one’s Self and to talk about the group settings experienced during the event. PubDate: Sun, 15 Feb 2020 8:00:00 GMT
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Abstract: Simone Schirinzi Taking inspiration from Gabriele Profita’s paper: "Malinteso e conflitto, il sot-tile confine tra negoziare e agire", which was published in this Journal in 2014, the author discusses some case studies while also drawing parallelisms with other pro-fessions. Some aspects of the phenomenon: "misunderstanding" are thus investi-gated from the patient’s and the psychotherapist’s point of view, while also keep-ing in mind norms and theories. Exemplifications will help to define misunder-standings arising from a condition of suffering which is difficult to verbalize, when both patient and therapist are confronted with unpredictability and the unknown. PubDate: Sun, 15 Feb 2020 8:00:00 GMT
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Abstract: Anna Iannotta Taking the start from a text by Gabriele Profita, the author reflects on possible group therapy work with individuals experiencing aggressive bonds in their lives. To what extent can therapy help individuals to feel recognized and to relive crys-tallized identifications belonging to one’s personal life history in a developmental perspective' According to the author, group therapy can favour a different repre-sentation of one’s Self. PubDate: Sun, 15 Feb 2020 8:00:00 GMT
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