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Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
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Objectives
Contents The main topics are:
- What is Dynamic Psychology and what is it about? The psychological genesis of self-representations, intrapsychic processes and interpersonal relationships.
- The main theories of dynamic psychology: from psychoanalysis to phenomenology.
- The contribution of dynamic psychology to the study of psychopathology.
- The devices of vulnerability: conflict, trauma, emotions and consciousness.
- The relationship between consciousness and the unconscious and the methods of exploring consciousness and the unconscious.
Extended Syllabus - What is Dynamic Psychology?
- What are the main theories of 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 unconscious
- 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 1) G. Stanghellini, M. Rossi Monti: Psicologia del patologico. Una prospettiva fenomenologico‐dinamica (Cortina, Milano, 2009).
2) Lecturer-provided handouts.
Teaching Methods Classroom-taught lessons with detailed documentation of case studies from the Teacher’s own clinical practice and from the classics of Dynamic Psychology.
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
Contacts/More Information Attendance is not compulsory but highly recommended.