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Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
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Objectives
Contents What is Dynamic Psychology and what is it about? The psychological genesis of Self representations, psychic processes and interpersonal relationships
In which way it is propedeutic to the study of Psychopathology? It provides those concepts that Psychopathology applies to the study of psychic disorders
Which are the main vulnerability apparatuses? Conflict, trauma, emotions and consciousness
How are consciousness and the unconscious related? Which are the methods for the exploration of consciousness and the unconscious?
Extended Syllabus What is Dynamic Psychology?
What is Clinical Psychology and how is it related to Dynamic Psychology?
The profession of the clinical psychologist
Theoretical apparatuses and clinical apparatuses
First-, second- and third-person understanding
Explanation and explication
Levels of diagnoses: nosographic, psychopathological and psychodynamic diagnosis
Word and language in the clinic of mental disorders
Psychology and hermeneutics
Understanding conscious experience and the unconscious
Dynamic unconscious and other kinds of uncoscious
Why humans are vulnerable?
What is vulnerability?
Elements of clinical anthropology: eccentricity and intentionality
Conflict: being in two minds
Trauma: the need to make sense of what happens
Emotions: engagement, attunement, enactment
Consciousness: the doublets of knowing who and what we are
Recommended Bibliography G. Stanghellini, M. Rossi Monti: Psicologia del patologico. Una prospettiva fenomenologico‐dinamica (Cortina, Milano, 2009).
A selection of papers in English by the Teacher on the topics of the Course is available.
Teaching Methods Classroom-taught lessons (8 CFU) with detailed documentation of case studies from the Teacher’s own clinical practice and from classics in Dynamic Psychology. Seminars and lectures held by outstanding experts. Attendance is not compulsory but highly recommended. During the Course students will be given to opportunity to test what they have learnt via simulation of the final examination
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
Multiple choice test (with 5 filter questions);
30 questions (1 point of each right answer) Allotted time: 40 minutes
Contacts/More Information Prof. Stanghellini is available for students every Wednesday from 3 till 4.30 pm. Junior tutors are also available by appointment. Attendance is advised but not compulsory
Address: giovanni.stanghellini@unich.it