The Group of Yoruba Gods
Abstract This contribution, based on the research carried out by Pierre Fatumbi Verger, intends to look into the following points: who are the Yoruba, the slave trade and syncretism and the Orisha pantheon
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Group psychotherapy with alcoholic patients: some theoretical and clinical issues
/in Marc Hebbrecht, Ronny Vandermeeren, The different applications of the group device, within clinical, social and organizational institutions/by @dminAbstract With this article we hope to illustrate how changing theoretical views within the psychoanalytic understanding of the mind and psychopathology of the alcoholic patient have lead to a shift in our clinical approach of these difficult patients. Starting from a more object relational approach we have integrated important contributions from self psychology and recently […]
Women Victims of Trafficking: theoretical overview and exploratory study on the phenomenon. Attachment and emotional-relational functioning
/in Although we are women, Luca Cerniglia, Marinella Paciello, Serena Bernabè/by @dminAbstract Within the theoretical and clinical framework of Attachment theory, the present pilot study aims to assess whether and how potentially traumatic experiences suffered by women victims of trafficking may have negative consequences on emotional-relational functioning and intends to consider the role of mediation of attachment assessed by using the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI). The […]
Dreams in a group session: telling a dream as an instrument to develope one’ s own individuality
/in A.M. Celli, Dream and Group two/by @dminAbstract In this paper some reflections will be formulated about a possible use of the dream as a useful tool to understand and have a view on the state of individual mind, related to group work, in a brief number of sessions of a psychotherapic group, managed in a Psichiatric Public Clinic. Then the process […]
A short term group of formation with medical staff who work in oncological wards. Stefania Marinelli (Part one)
/in Antonio Fazio, Clinical and training in Homogeneus Group/by @dminAbstract This paper is about an experience of a group of formation with doctors and nurses on the theme of cancer that we conducted in the oncological ward of the San Filippo Neri Hospital in collaboration with the Psychiatry Service within that hospital. It lasted three months with a weekly frequency. The group was conducted […]
Two dreams by Piero della Francesca
/in Enzo Scotto Lavina, Mith Dream and Group/by @dminAbstract The author studies the contribution that emerges from Piero’s dream vision. He notes the relationship doctor/patient is replaced by the painter/viewer one: the dream isn’t the problem but the solution, it isn’t a puzzle that needs to be reconstructed piece by piece, but rather a global narration governed by the painter/viewer’s eye, controlled by […]
Introduction
/in Mario Giampà, Truth and evolution in O in Bion s work/by @dminAbstract In this introduction, after a brief account of the advantages and application areas of group psychotherapy as a method of intervention in developmental age, they are briefly summarized all the articles that make up the volume. In this way, it is given an overview of the content, following a
Therapeutic groups and the institutional container: curative factors of the psychiatric institutional field and its destructive elements
/in About institutional containing. Containing and transformation in contemporaries organizations, Franca Fubini, Giovanni Foresti, Mario Perini/by @dminAbstract Starting from increasing destructiveness of symbolization processes in contemporary psychopathology, this paper try to suggest connections between institutional containers , subjective mind and group (mostly bionian one), allowing everyone a way to keep available oniric elements for the care
Presentation “Group and Migration”
/in Alfredo Lombardozzi, Group and Migration/by @dminAbstract In the introduction some fundamental ideas that are relative to the analysis of immigration processes and cultural exchange are illustrated according to psychoanalytic parameters. In addition, a new, in depth interpretation that suggests both points of connection and divergence between the different essays in the issue is given. This clarifies the central theme of […]
The Individual, the Group and Nature
/in Individual Group and Nature, Martin Ringer/by @dminAbstract In this article, the author proposes to consider the complexity of the interconnections between individual, group and nature. Is there a link between mental representations of nature and psychological well-being. If the child is not, and ‘entity’ separate from the mother, the individual can not be seen isolated from its physical world. The relationship […]
The rush of political dreams in analytic group
/in Franco Di Maria, Mith Dream and Group/by @dminAbstract The author formulates the hypothesis that the group – analytical “resounds”, at a emotional/cognitive level, also because of the deep macro – structural transformations. To bound this resonance he presents a methodical observation, about 2 years long, of two groups of analytical therapy, to notice the influences over the subjective backgrounds (especially the dreams) […]
A family matter (inside). Notes on group aspects in eating disorders
/in Group with anorexic patients therapeutic factors, Laura Selvaggi/by @dminAbstract I’ll try to connect some of the bionian ideas about individual-group relationship to the specific manifestations of eating disorders, with regards to the fact that some of these remarks could be valid also for different pathologies. The aim of this paper is not so much to propose alternative aetiological explanations, as to stress the […]
Reflections on a Story: Group, on the Processes of Change and Identificatory Reorganization
/in Clelia Manfredi, Leonardo Linetzky, The psychoanalytic field according to the model developed by analysts of APdeba. Groupal aspects of the mind and their influence in groups/by @dminAbstract The authors present a story that does not represent the analytic situation, but a testimony that needed the presence of other, with capacity for reverie, able to contain a space of meanings to enable the processing and reprocessing of phenomena of the lived experience, interwoven in a symbolic plot. The story is about the […]
The Love that moves the Sun and the other Stars (1) Short Presentation of the edition: “Although we are women” (2)
/in Although we are women, Stefania Marinelli/by @dminI would like to a give a special thank you to Silvia Cimino and Luca Cerniglia, for their editorial collaboration; and to Claudio Neri, who gave life to the first working group within the course “Female groups” “I do not know us” were the first words spoken by Bion, after an intense silence at the […]
The movie is about a special form of creative nostalgia
/in Luca Di Donna, Psychoanalysis and Cinema: “Through a glass”/by @dminAbstract Midnight in Paris” by Woody Allen is a movie that deals with the concept of remembrance of the past. I have used a some conceptual ideas proposed by the late analyst Pier Mario Masciangelo. In his work Masciangelo elucidated in a very creative manner the function of nostalgia as an important aspect of psychic […]
Traumatic representations associated with separation. Acting as dreams that can not be dreamed
/in Dream and Group two, Luisella Zerbi Schwartz/by @dminAbstract The presentation deals with the reactions to the absence of a therapist. The re-enactment, triggered by the absence of a therapist, provokes an automatic response of hyper-arousal that deprives the patients of the ability to modulate and control anxiety and aggression. This enhances the probability of acting-out. An acting can be regarded as a […]
Candomblé: A small glossary
/in Antonella Rita Roscilli, Ginevra De Bellis, The group of gods from Anthropology to Group Psychotherapy/by @dminGlossary Alapini: supreme high priest of the Egungun cult. Axé: sacred energy, vital strength that can be found in man, animals and vegetables. Babalaò: high priest of Ifà, the divination Orixà. Babalorixà: same as pãe de santo, leader of the religious community. Barracão: the room in which the public rituals take place. Bùzio: shells that […]
Self-help groups with women victims of intimate partner violence
/in Although we are women, Francesca Esposito/by @dminAbstract The “social” importance of the debate concerning the phenomenon of intimate partner violence and the possible forms of intervention feasible in its regard is now well established within various scientific disciplines, including the psychological one. The specific contribution that psychology can give, as well as the understanding of the phenomenon, is specifically linked to […]
Experiental group and dream
/in Dream and Group two, Paolo Cruciani, Sergio Stagnitta/by @dminAbstract The experiential group has a duration defined, a beginning and an end, known by the participants. A purpose, not therapeutic, but explicitly and programmatically “experiential”. A conductor having acquired expertise on the events – the “effects” – the unconscious, is able to perceive what is happening in the group and not only to provide […]
The person internal to the hospital who acts as intermediary and guarantor of the experience. Simonetta Bruni (Part two)
/in Clinical and training in Homogeneus Group, Simonetta Bruni, Stefania Marinelli/by @dminAbstract This paper is about an experience of a group of formation with doctors and nurses on the theme of cancer that we conducted in the oncological ward of the San Filippo Neri Hospital in collaboration with the Psychiatry Service within that hospital. It lasted three months with a weekly frequency. The group was conducted […]
Fiction Film as Group Dreaming: Criteria, Interpretations
/in J. Michailov, Mith Dream and Group, S. Michailova/by @dminAbstract The authors describe a technique of work with some patients, that they name as film analysis, sometimes called film therapy, cinematology et al. They find the work with films most advantageous for the clients who are the inhabitants of the former Soviet Union, because in Soviet times psychological work with clients was prohibited. Their […]
Identification Processes in Group Organisation
/in Haydée Popper-Gurassa, Play bond and change in Psychodynamic Group Therapy for Children/by @dminSummary The group framework is the cause of a first moment of identity-based anxiety, characterized by the non-differentiation of the group members and the projection of cleaved aggressive and libidinal elements. The group becomes a real object, represented and invested by its members as they organize it into a container/ constructor of their primal anxieties. […]
The institutional container in severe pathologies
/in About institutional containing. Containing and transformation in contemporaries organizations, Anna Ferruta/by @dminAbstract This paper analyzes the problematic interlacement in Psychiatric Therapeutic Communities between the process of subjectivation, which is singular, and the intersubjective dimension of psychic sufferings, which is plural. Two tools are indicated to support the clinical function of Psychiatric Communities: Psychoanalytic
The Time of Kali: Violence between Religious Groups in India
/in Group and Migration, Sudhir Kakar/by @dminAbstract The author focuses on the theme of violence between Hindus and Muslims in India in great depth and detail. He conducts an analysis of the phenomena by integrating various points of view: religious, historical, social, economic and psychological. He closely examines the psychological reasons that are the base of the conflicting relationships between the […]
Introduction, Group Psychoterapy with Psychotic and Borderline Patiens
/in Francesca Natasha Vasta, Group Psychoterapy with Psychotic and Borderline Patiens, Howard D. Kibel, Mariaclotilde Colucci/by @dminI am honoured to present the fourth number of Funzione Gamma Journal edited by my Italian colleagues and me, about “group psychotherapy with psychotic and borderline patients “. The Funzione Gamma Journal has met with remarkable success, presenting papers coming mostly from a European tradition; with this number we establish a profitable, communicative connection with […]
Genius Loci: The Spirit of a Place, the Spirit of a Group
/in Claudio Neri, Individual Group and Nature/by @dminAbstract The author divided the discussion is divided in three parts. The first, which is very synthetic, will cover some of Bion’s theories as regards “Work Group Mentality”, “Basic Assumptions Group Mentality”, and their respective leaders. In the second he introduced J. Bleger’s “Syncretic Sociality” concept, which introduces a third type of “Group Mentality” different […]
The fate of transference: infinite transformation of original fantasies
/in Bernard Duez, Mith Dream and Group/by @dminAbstract Understanding new forms of psychic suffering in our society, especially in the border-line states, is much more relevant if we are able to consider their conduct as being an occurrence of the primal fantasies pertaining to two orders : that of the ritual and that of the myth. Very often, the antisocial behaviour of […]
Bulimic images. Interpersonal rereading of a dynamic of a Photolangage© group
/in Group with anorexic patients therapeutic factors, Luciano Gheri, Nicoletta Calenzo/by @dminAbstract The Photolangage revealed to be an instrument able to stimulate a dialogue among people closed up in the silence of their own experience.Preceding studies and clinical experiences demonstrated its strength in providing a container for the emotions emerging in group paths.This important feature of it permitted us to use the instrument respecting its own […]
Group Field and School Context.
/in Diana Zac, Isabel Mansione, Marta Viola, The psychoanalytic field according to the model developed by analysts of APdeba. Groupal aspects of the mind and their influence in groups/by @dminAbstract We have chosen the previous quotation because we consider it accounts for some unconscious beliefs shared by the social groups which are part of the community, such us parents, journalists, teachers, students, politicians and leaders. Based on Bion’s approach to groups, we could say that the aforementioned groups show beliefs that make them work […]
From counsciousness raising to women’s groups of the 21st century
/in Although we are women, Chiara Valentini/by @dminAbstract Female sociality, which began in spaces and times far removed from domestic society, has been organizing itself in modern societies as the feminist movement, of whose history is evoked by the author, generating through the various historical stages new representations of women, that are able to contribute to the possibility of a new