CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Knowledge of the fundamental concepts of Psychology and the psychological aspects of suffering and illness. In particular, acquisition of the communication and relational skills necessary to adequately manage the therapeutic relationship and evaluation of the symptoms that present themselves under clinical observation, also trying to grasp their underlying existential meaning.

Frontal and theoretical-practical lessons.

If the teaching is taught in mixed or remote mode, the necessary variations may be introduced with respect to what was previously stated, in order to respect the program foreseen and reported in the Syllabus.

Freud's discovery of the importance of the mother for a daughter

According to Freud, at the beginning: the little girl's first love object is her father; Freud seduced by the female enigma; The process of feminization; A constitutive lack; A reinterpretation of femininity; Why does the little girl have so much difficulty separating from her mother? The little girl's question to her father; The Oedipus dismantled; According to Freud, in the end: the little girl's first love object is her mother.

How does the little girl fit into her mother's desire?

Structural alienation; The question to the Other; The mother and her power; The first enigma: the mother's desire; The divided subject; “Tell me who I am”; The mother as destiny; It is up to the mother to preserve the place of the lack.

The little girl is left with nostalgia

The child's first enrollment; The game of deception between mother and child; The pacifying function of the father; “I am a daughter of silence”; “Who am I as a woman?”; “What to think of the relationship between my parents?”, asks the daughter; The eternally unsatisfied demand.

Oedipus makes the man, it does not make the woman

The woman partially escapes Oedipus; Female enjoyment of which we know nothing; The female position in sexuation; The child, object of enjoyment in the maternal fantasy; The recovery of enjoyment; Can the Other lose me?; The little girl and her mother's longing look; Between hate and pain: devastation.

“A son will be my son until he meets a woman, but a daughter will be my daughter all her life”

The mother imagines the child before he is born; The constitution of the body image; The imaginary other; “Tell me mirror, whose image is this?”; Does a mother love one daughter more than another?

“Mom, what does being a woman mean to you?”

An unfinished mirror in the woman's life; The masquerade: the invention of femininity; “Mother, what have you done with me?”; Where does the mother begin, where does the woman end?; Between mother and daughter: the necessary separation of bodies, desires, enjoyments; What, above all, does a little girl ask her mother?; Becoming a woman.

Introduction

The discordant song of cicadas

Lives at the limits of life

The Border universe; Birth of a concept; Oedipus is a tax; One, two and three: outcomes of Oedipus; The decline of the symbolic; Is the postmodern condition the post-Edipian society?; The imaginary in power or the power of the imaginary; The misery of the creator; Symbolic and imaginary; The spectacular as a form of civilization; The Father ATM; Emptiness and anguish; How does the subject arise?; Impossible separations; The weak paternal metaphor; The Verleugnung; The SUV metaphor; The story is not over; The social denial of castration; Capitalism does not like the truth; The splitting of the ego in the Borderline; Again about the split; Become an object and become an object; The perverse mask.

The perverse background of borderline society

The era of the Inconshow; The parallel world of entertainment; Knowing and not wanting to know; The parade; The Nomination; Narcinism; The imaginary phallus; One's own image as spectacle; The sacrifice of the perverse; The elimination of the competitor; La Advertising; Border Television; Children tele seduced; The modern children's catechism; Video-transmitted sentimental education; Eternal children; Question of Audience?; The anguish and fascination of the horrible; The stunned spectator; The function of the ugly; More real than real; Are we all in danger?; Contemporary racism; He who is afraid is not afraid; Anguish and perversion; Borderline Current Affairs.

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2. Lolli F. L’epoca dell’inconshow. Dimensione clinica e scenario sociale del fenomeno borderline. Ed. Mimesis, 2012

The exam consists of an interview in which at least n. 3 questions that focus on at least 3 topics of the program. The test allows you to verify: i) the level of knowledge of the main concepts of Psychology; ii) the acquisition of the communication and relational skills necessary to adequately manage the therapeutic relationship iii) evaluation of the symptoms that present themselves under clinical observation, also trying to grasp their underlying existential meaning. The following parameters will be taken into account for the attribution of the final grade:

Score 29-30 cum laude: the student has an in-depth knowledge of the main concepts of Psychology, promptly and correctly demonstrates that he has acquired the communication and relational skills necessary to adequately manage the therapeutic relationship; promptly and correctly evaluates the symptoms that arise during clinical observation, also grasping their underlying existential meaning;

Score 26-28: the student has a good knowledge of the main concepts of Psychology, demonstrates having acquired the communication and relational skills necessary to adequately manage the therapeutic relationship; evaluates the symptoms that present themselves upon clinical observation, also trying to grasp their underlying existential meaning;

Score 22-25: the student has a fair knowledge of the main concepts of Psychology, even if limited to the main topics; evaluates the symptoms that present themselves upon clinical observation, but is unable to grasp their underlying existential meaning;

Score 18-21: the student has minimal knowledge of the main concepts of Psychology, demonstrates a modest acquisition of the communication and relational skills necessary to adequately manage the therapeutic relationship, evaluates the symptoms that present themselves under clinical observation not always in an correct and does not always manage to grasp the underlying existential meaning;

Exam not passed: the student does not have the minimum required knowledge of the main contents of the course. The ability to use specific language is very poor or non-existent and he is not able to apply the acquired knowledge independently.

Oedipus according to Freud

Structural alienation

The question to the Other

The constitution of the body image

The other imaginary

The masquerade: the invention of femininity

The decline of the symbolic

The perverse mask

Narcinism

Children seduced by television

Borderline current events