- Docente: Fiorella Monti
- Credits: 8
- SSD: M-PSI/07
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
- Campus: Cesena
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Sciences of Behaviour and Social Relations (cod. 0988)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the formative activity, the student:
1. knows the basic concepts of the freudian
model and of the post-freudian models
2. knows the fundamental models and orientations
of psychoanalytical theory and is able to compare between
them
3. gains competences on the psychodynamic models
of development and of developmental psychopathology
4. is able to understand and analyze the
influence of child experiences on the development of personality
and of relational styles
Course contents
- The Freudian System: basic concepts
- The Postfreudian orientations:
a) The first debates (Abraham, Ferenczi)
b) Ego psychology
c) Object relations theory (Klein)
d) The independents (Winnicott)
e) The Bionian model (Bion)
f) The attachment theory
g) Developmental psychoanalysis (Stern)
h) Infant research : the bases of the intersubjectivity
i) Aims of the psychological work
Readings/Bibliography
The books include a manual that analyses all the points of the program, and books further deepening principal issues
Blandino G. (2009). Psicologia come funzione della mente. Paradigmi psicodinamici per le professioni di aiuto. Torino: Utet
Winnicott D.W. (1993). Talking to Parents. Boston: Merloyd Lawrence Books
Vallino D., Macciò M. (2004). Essere neonati. Osservazioni psicoanalitiche. Roma: Borla.
Teaching methods
The course, from the didactic point of view, will concern:
- frontal lessons about the psychoanalytic model from Freud to up-to-date developments.
- practices/activities, by reading, video and discussing about some psychoanalytic aspects
Assessment methods
Examination: written test
The written test will tend to verify students' knowledge through close and open questions about the indicated books and the issues of the lessons. The written test concerns three parts: First Part (cap.1-8 of Blandino's book, score 0-10); Second Part (cap. 9-22 of Blandino's book, score 0-10); Third Part (cap. 23-31 of Blandino's book plus Winnicott's and Vallino, Macciò's books, score 0-10). The examination is passed with a score = or > 6 in every part. About the questions : 0-1 score for the close ones; 0-2 for the open ones. The examination isn't passed if one part gets score < 6.
There are not any itinere exams.
Examination of the previous accademic years is about the program of the a.a. 2013-2014.
Teaching tools
Videoprojector, personal computer and overhead projector.
Office hours
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