- 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) Self psychology (Kohut)
f) The Bionian model (Bion)
g) The attachment theory
h) Developmental psychoanalysis (Stern)
i) Infant research : the bases of the intersubjectivity
l) Aims of the psychological work
Readings/Bibliography
The books include a manual that analyses all the points of the program, and readings, which will be indicated during the course, further deepening the issues
Blandino G. (2009). Psicologia come funzione della mente. Paradigmi psicodinamici per le professioni di aiuto. Torino: Utet
Reading books:
Winnicott D.W. (1993). Talking to Parents. Boston: Merloyd Lawrence Books
Schmid-Kitsikis (1999). Wilfred R. Bion. Paris: Presses Universitairis de France
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 and discussing about some psychoanalyst' s papers
Assessment methods
Examination: written test
The written test will tend to verify students' knowledge about the Freudian model, the postfreudian orientations,the most recent developments, developmental psychoanalysis and the present lines of development.
Teaching tools
Videoprojector, personal computer and overhead projector.
Office hours
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