Entries by @dmin

From Trauma to Memory The “internal group” of origin and belonging in migrant children

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Abstract The intertwining between identity and memory in young underage immigrants is examined through a series of sessions that took place in a Welcome Centre. In the specific situation that involves children occupied in a migratory transit, the construction of the individual memory finds itself engaged on two fronts, as it implies not only a […]

A model of group psychoterapy for persons with cronic mental illness

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Abstract Significant advances in the pharmacotherapy of many major psychiatric syndromes occurred in the final decade of the last millennium. However, medications neither proved to be an ultimate cure nor did they eliminate the human suffering attendant with these illnesses. As a consequence, a great number of individuals remain significantly impaired by their illness. Persons […]

Psyche and enviroment

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Abstract The psyche, in the totality of conscious and unconscious processes, is revealed through the image, thought, and language, and within the group phenomena in relation with the environment. Within this framework are the concepts of protomental and psychoid, respectively, in Bion and Jung, as well as the implications of transference and countertransference, but also […]

Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytical Field: the experience of alterity

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Abstract Freud postulated that going through “an experience of the unconscious” is the only possible way of becoming an analyst. Psychoanalysis is a method, an asymmetric device that carries in its core the seed of the interplay of relationships of which this experience consists. It is a novel form of social link that promotes tan […]

Women in groups in Italy today and yesterday. Social change and inner transformations in three decades

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Abstract Author’s reference theory As group Psychoanalyst the author refers to Ferdinando Vanni’s Interactive Group Theory (1988, 1992). In F. Vanni’s theory Interactive groups are characterized by interactional communicative exchanges among participant. In these exchanges an “interactive” self emerges: the “self-in-others”. This “self-in-others” presents itself as an indifferentiated Self which allows parts of personality to […]

Of monsters, spirits, soldiers and the power of imagination. A psychoanalytic lens on Victor Erice’s “The spirit of the beehive” (El espíritu de la colmena)

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Abstract My article on Victor Erice’s The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) looks at the ambivalent fantasies of two Spanish young girls, excited by the screening of the film Frankenstein in their village town-hall. I offer an interpretation of their fantasies in the context of those children’s psychological development, of their relationship with emotionally distant […]