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The group as an operative tool in the functioning of a therapeutic équipe which works in Institutions oriented by Psychoanalysis

1 January 1970/in Ezio De Francesco, The different applications of the group device, within clinical, social and organizational institutions/by @dmin

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This article examines the theme of the group as an operative tool of a therapeutic équipe which works in Institutions oriented by psychoanalysis.
Freud is the starting point, then it follows the contribution of W.R. Bion, and it is finally presented the application of the concept of the group without a leader used by Lacan in the field of the Cartel’s device.
There are also shown two clinical experiences which took place in two Institutions, called Ce.cli (Clinic Centre of Psychotherapy and Applied Psychoanalysis), and DAI Read more

Being disturbed: the impact of severe personality disorder on professional carers

1 January 1970/in Robert D. Hinshelwood, The different applications of the group device, within clinical, social and organizational institutions/by @dmin

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Ogden Nash’s quip implies a perfectly neutral attitude on the part of a professional to the affairs of the people he deals with. Perhaps it is a familiar view of professional people. We need our accountants, lawyers and so on to give us an objective view of our affairs. Maybe that should be what is needed from the caring professions. However, I have argued that within psychiatry carers are particularly disconcerted by the work they do (Hinshelwood, 1999; 2004). In the present paper, I wish to look in some closer detail at these interpersonal processes that occur between carers and those they care for, with particular emphasis on personality disordered people.
This Chapter will take a critical perspective, questioning and problematising the standard approach to care provision based on the consumer model as developed since about 1990 in the NHS. The critique will involve a perspective based on a relational model, in which ‘users’ will be recognised as in relation with their carers, rather than merely objects of care; and indeed ‘carers’ are, equally, in a relationship with their users. In other words the critical position is to focus on ‘users’ in context, and in the relational environment of care. Increasingly the discovery of the notion Read more

The device of the group without a leader, for intervening during the emergency followed to the earthquake

1 January 1970/in Sabrina Di Cioccio, The different applications of the group device, within clinical, social and organizational institutions/by @dmin

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This article testifies about the work of short intervention realized in a camp of evacuees built and managed by an Association of Civil Protection’s Volunteers, two weeks later the earthquake which damaged Emilia Romagna on the 20th of May 2012.
This paper is questioned by the two founding arguments of the experience discussed in it.
1) What kind of the emergency’s treatment is it possible where the natural catastrophe dictated the advent of a “before and after” which irreversibly draws the familiarity with the usual everyday life?
2) And what kind of presence is it requested to the psychologist called to intervene in a circumscribed time within the community which Read more

The group activities in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Psychiatric Services

1 January 1970/in Alessandra Marzano, Giuseppe Ducci, The different applications of the group device, within clinical, social and organizational institutions/by @dmin

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In all the western countries has established the model of community psychiatry. In this model, the aims of the wards for acute pathologies (Psychiatric Emergency Ser-vices) are slowly passed from the historical ones, of the control of agitation, anger and despair, with the limitation of the most disturbing expressions on the social level, taking no notice of diagnosis and evaluation of the causes of the crisis, to the most modern ones, which measure the quality and success of a inpatient acute psychiatric ward not on the number of patients seen and stabilized, but instead entrusted with success in long-term therapy project.
In this perspective, the group activity within the Italian Diagnosis and Treatment Psychiatric Services (SPDC, the inpatient acute psychiatric ward of the NHS) takes a significant value, both for the management of the emotional atmosphere inside the ward, that for the development or the reinforcement of those social cognition skills that will be, at discharge, decisive for the recovery of adequate cognitive skills.
The article is the exact transcription of the lesson happened in 2012 within the course of Theory and Practice of the Intervention in Groups, at the Faculty Read more

Why psychoanalysis in times of poverty?

1 January 1970/in Alessandro Americo, The different applications of the group device, within clinical, social and organizational institutions/by @dmin

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The psychoanalytical group is characterized by a self-representative work and what happens within it, is considered as an useful material for putting in meaning the same group. Thoughts, affections, somatic expressions, sounds, noises, etc. tend to form a multi-dimensional tissue called with a good term, by Francesco Corrao (1979), <<self-interpreting context>>.
By this way the group can be operationally defined by the setting which establishes its limits but it is at the same time, in a dynamic relation with the reality’s levels in which it is immerged.
I try of placing with this article, some founding moments of Bion’s model which came from his experiences, in the way of highlighting, referring to the case of groups applied within institutional contexts, the importance since the origins, of a field’s perspective in which the clinic practice will never be a technical operation extracted from the institution but an integral part of it.
In a “ill” institution it is highly improbable that “healthy” groups can born and develop. The function of psychoanalysts during times characterized by a deep crisis of the human being, is the same of the poets in the Hölderlin’s poem which gives the title to this work: in other words the duty of de-objectifying reality from its de-symbolizing dimensions, bearing the darkness and the Read more

Institutional dynamics within psychoanalytic training

1 January 1970/in Paola Russo, The different applications of the group device, within clinical, social and organizational institutions/by @dmin

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The inherent difficulties within psychoanalytic training are revised in the light of the phenomena of mourning and of incest with whom each student has to deal at the end of his/her personal analysis before entering the training. I hypothesize that a satisfactory “defusion” from the phantasm of the personal analyst and from the related processes of idealization is particularly hampered by the institutional Read more

Working with Children Victims and/or Witnesses of Violence: the laboratory, in the centre for women and children in need, La Ginestra- Valmontone (Rome)

1 January 1970/in Matteo De Lorenzo, The different applications of the group device, within clinical, social and organizational institutions/by @dmin

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The present essay describes a particular kind of institutional work as it takes place in the laboratory held at La Ginestra – Valmontone (Rome, Italy), with children who have been victims of and/or have been witnessing episodes of violence.
The laboratory’s practice is inspired by some key ideas of the pratique à plusieurs also followed by a number of institutions that deal with Applied Psychoanalysis across many Read more

Group psychotherapy with alcoholic patients: some theoretical and clinical issues

1 January 1970/in Marc Hebbrecht, Ronny Vandermeeren, The different applications of the group device, within clinical, social and organizational institutions/by @dmin

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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 also from the work of Monjauze on the alcoholic part of the personality. Furthermore, we are thinking of ways in which we could apply the work of René Kaës in our group psychotherapeutic work with this population. His description of the psychic formations in the three psychic spaces, and especially his concept of the phoric function within a group has caught our attention. It is our hypothesis that in a group of alcoholic patients the group psychotherapist is confronted with a specific kind of phoric function. We see it as an inherent part of the alcoholic group that one of the group members chooses to be, and at the same time is chosen by the other Read more

Intersections between small group and institution

1 January 1970/in Alessandro Bruni, The different applications of the group device, within clinical, social and organizational institutions/by @dmin

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After a historical overview on the reasons which make it difficult for Italian people to share the group dimension, the paper presents a synthesis of Wilfred Bion’s model of the analytic group and also the experience of the Italian colleagues who tried to apply this model to public health institutions. Later, a “Clinical case” of institutional impasse will be commented and an ideal model for open institutions Read more

The Group of Multifamily Psychoanalysis

1 January 1970/in Andrea Narracci, The different applications of the group device, within clinical, social and organizational institutions/by @dmin

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The Group of Multifamily Psychoanalysis is a flywheel of the therapeutic and rehabilitative activities promoted by a Mental Health Department (DSM), in the field of the serious mental illness, which involves patients and their relatives.
It does not substitute but it integrates the other forms of psychotherapeutic intervention, making also possible within it, the collaboration between professionals with different Read more

The presentation of the new edition of the Italian web journal Funzione Gamma: The different applications of the group device, within clinical, social and organizational institutions

1 January 1970/in Sabrina Di Cioccio, The different applications of the group device, within clinical, social and organizational institutions/by @dmin

What is the topicality of working with groups, 70 years after the article of Bion and Rickman on the Northfield’s experience?
What developments could be opened by the pioneering importance of that research, which took its fundaments from the Freud’s discovery, the unprecedented discovery of the unconscious?
What is the constant which nowadays permits to psychotherapists of different trainings, of dialoguing and debating on the functionalities of a device born to face the difficulties of the institutional case?
This edition grants the papers of ten authors and each of them testifies starting from his characteristic theoretical and clinical vertex, the possible encounter with the efficacy of a tool which permits since the origins of its applications, to treat the Institution’s symptom.
This point was that on which it was possible a number of Funzione Gamma that reflects on that field’s dimension, within the individual’s Read more

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