17314 - Dynamic Psychology Theories and Techniques

Academic Year 2012/2013

  • 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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