Entries by @dmin

Interview with André FERTIER

musician composer, music therapist, expert in cultural accessibility, artistic and inclusive cultural policy. Music therapy researcher for people with autism, cerebrospinal handicap, people in comas, and Alzheimer’s patients. Composer of stage music, World music and songwriter performing pop/rock songs; creator of functional sound spaces.

Interview with Marco Fierro

edited by Adelina Detcheva  Question: The first question concerns osteopathy seen a little more closely. What is it about? Answer: Osteopathy is a mainly manual technique that tries to find a balance in the person. A balance both from a mechanical point of view but also from a physiological point of view. Having said this, […]

Interview with Maurizio Koch

by Adelina Detcheva Question: Well, I would be very curious to have some information regarding your choice of field and the profession of physician and gastroenterologist in particular. Answer: So, the story begins like this: I was fascinated by our family doctor who lived in via del Governo Vecchio 67. We were then in via […]

The skin screams what my voice cannot express

Abstract The skin as the first image of ourselves, the first contact with the outside world and with our mother, is a privileged organ in relational life. It reveals what is going on inside us, as it is a visible organ that blushes, pales, sweats, freezes, etc. It represents the organ of touch, harbinger of […]

“When I took drugs I felt better.” Considerations on the body, from the abuse to the therapeutic community

Abstract The article explores the anatomy of the body dimension in drug addiction, it considers how body changes at the same pace as the transformations of relationships that the individual has with the substance of abuse and with the context. The word anatomy, derived from the Greek ἀνατέμνω that means to cut, manages to represent […]

The “Mente Ampliada” as a living body of the Multifamily Psychoanalysis Group

Abstract Between the two references of Peter Brook (1968), in which this reflection on the body of and in the group begins and ends, there is that empty, creative space, indispensable in the theatre as in the work of the Multifamily Psychoanalysis Group.  In the background, the containing function of the group as of the […]

Fusional experiences and fantasies in the analytic group

Abstract: The present article aims to explore the fusional levels of the analytic group. First of all, a definition of the term fusionality is reported, taken mostly from the work of Neri et al., (1990). Then the fusional functioning of the psychoanalytic group is investigated. Given that these conceptualizations are still in their infancy, it […]

“Support beyond the Distance”: the creation of a working group and its function of containment. New settings in psychological intervention in COVID-19 care contexts

Abstract The article presents the professional and emotional experience of the working group of psychologists engaged in home care and the management of the COVID-19 emergency. The emotional impact of traumatic events for the individual and the community requires the set-up of a multi-level containment structure.

A Primary Care Psychologist together with the Family Physician: the experience of the Health Psychology School of Rome

Abstract It is known that at least 50% of the requests that people make to family physicians, behind the proposal of a somatic symptom, express relational/existential distress, often in very early phases, in which the intervention could be short and easy: the doctor, however,  is not always in the position to offer an answer, and […]

The body between metapsychology and mentalization. Lines of research in psychoanalysis, after Freud

Abstract The authors reconstruct the question of the body in Freudian writings, indicating its multiple theoretical and clinical aspects, and highlighting its conceptual complexity through the various phases of evolution of psychoanalytic discovery, from the origins, with hysteria, to the silent manifestations of the dead drive: extreme vertices of the Freudian research path which, on […]

From soma to psyche. The journey of the Sapiens

Abstract – for all contributions Ferrari’s psychoanalytic hypothesis is based on the idea that the mind acquires the drive for its own evolution from the body. From this approach also derives the idea that disharmonious balances can be created between the components of the individual system, especially between the body dimension and the psychic dimension, […]

Evolution of the psychoanalytic theory of anorexia

Abstract The author carries out a brief theoretical and bibliographic review on the various psychoanalytic perspectives that have tried to focus on multiple aspects of anorexia and introduces her hypothesis by exploring new points of knowledge on the disorder through the presentation of a case of early anorexia. The article focuses on the complex intrapsychic […]

Water is taught by thirst. Some reflections on the bodily self

Abstract Starting from a verse by Emily Dickinson, this work proposes a reflection on the body self understood as a continuous and bidirectional exchange between body and mind, based on the feeling of authenticity and vitality of being. The focus is on the manifestations of conflict and rupture of this dialogue,

The parental couple and the group of caregivers in the care given to the baby: hypochondriac mirrors

Abstract The parental couple, the group of perinatal and early childhood caregivers, are subject, in the care given to the baby, to ordinary hypochondria. Taking care of a baby, a subject who does not yet speak verbally, requires work on interpreting his various signs, especially bodily ones. If the primary parental preoccupation, the primary caring […]

Group therapy with bodily mediation for obese teenagers. Therapeutic containment when loosing weight

Abstract our reflection centers on the utility of the psychoanalytic body-based group as a way to take charge of teenager obesity. Indeed, the therapeutic group can work as a containment for obese teenagers when they are losing weight. Indeed, in this period they show a lack of both transitionality and psychic containment which results in […]

The psychoanalyst and the yoga lesson

Summary This dissertation, centered on the Hatha yoga course, develops a reflection from three initial questions, stemming from the readings and practices of yoga, the experience of the carpet (hence its title). These are: the recurrent attack of the Ego, the absence of the group, and the absence of sexuality, in a reflection on the […]

Polyphony of body in psychoanalysis. The body in the psychoanalytic research. New pathologies and psychoanalytic clinic

Presentation The actual curation of this journal issue began a year after it had been proposed to the editorial staff. For a full year there had been no response from the authors. Coronavirus arrived. And there came a flood of contributions, a widespread enthusiasm was animated: themes, styles, models, original and valuable lexicons multiplied with […]

Could psychoanalysis be considered a science? Interview with R.D. Hinshelwood: Part One

Question. Dr. Hinshelwood, your coming in Rome the next 3rd and 4th of October, will open a debate around a question nowadays always more important for the psychoanalytical field: Could psychoanalysis be considered a science? In your book, “Research on the Couch: Single Case Studies, Subjectivity and Psychoanalytic Knowledge” (Routledge, 2013), you point to that […]

Bodies Under Siege. Interview to Armando R. Favazza

Question. Dr Favazza, in May 2011 the Johns Hopkins University Press has published the 3rd edition of “Bodies Under Siege: Self-Mutilation, Nonsuicidal Self-Injury, and Body Modification in Culture and Psychiatry”, that since 1987 it is regarded as the most important work on self-injurious behaviours and body modification practices, explored in their complexity by cultural and […]

Music, Group and the Unconscious

N.46 – edited by Édith Lecourt and Stefania Marinelli. Pablo Picasso, 1921, Three Musicians. Oil on canvas, 200.7 x 222.9 cm The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Federico Dazzi, Soundtrack for a painting, Rome, 2020 – – Ici, pour la version française