CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Course Sheet

Course code:

27006

Academic Year of enrolment:

2017

Year of supply:

2019/2020

Divisions:

Cognomi I-Z

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Disciplinary Sector:

Clinical Psychology

Is part of:

CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

MUCCI Clara

Cycle:

Second semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

136

Prerequisites:

None; a capacity and a disposition to listen and focus on the teaching and interrelational activities in a big class, in required, in order to be in tune with the relational educational and formative processes. (Needless to say, no mobile phone use is allowed in class).

Objectives

1 to acquire the knowledge and to be able to discuss in detail the three levels of trauma of human agency in the complex mind-body-brain system at individual and collective level and to be able to contrast the effects of trauma of human agency from trauma due to natural catastrophe; 2 to be able to apply the knowledge acquired about the different traumatic levels in the realm of caregiver-infant relationship towards a first level of diagnostic evaluation and relational capacity. 3.to acquire the necessary autonomy of judgement and the communicative skills within the relational interpersonal process of self-other, starting from an awareness of the IWMs in oneself and in the other including the capacity to recognize the neurobiological underpinnings of secure, insecure and disorganized attachment. 4 To acquire the mental capacity to recognize the relevance of syntonization between caregiver and child in lieu of the formation of a healthy personality in the mind-body-brain system. 5 to learn how secure insecure and disorganized attachment are formed, together with the neurobiology of intersubjective development of the self-other imprinting and how they facilitate or interfere with the formation of psychopathology, relational and social capacities, such as altruism and empathy and how they are relevant towards the process of humanization and empathic collective response.6 to know and to differentiate the basic principles of the therapeutic relations and intervention starting with the capacity to listen empathically and to be tuned intersubjectively, both for the development of a human being and the formation of the basic therapeutic qualities. 7 To be able to differentiate a borderline from a narcissistic or antisocial disorder, including depressive element in the diagnosis. 8 To acquire the basic elements of the communicative ability in clinical psychology as pertains both to the linguistic constructs and the relational human qualities in the dyadic aspects, with the necessary capacity to be a Witness and to be empathically tuned to the suffering of the other.

Contents

Psychodynamic fundamentals in Clinical Psychology.
New definition of "unconscious" according to cognitivism and psychodynamic views: Allan Schore's concept of the Un-conscious. Implicit Memory and somatic memories. First two years of life and mechanisms of attachment: secure, insecure, disorganized. Affective Disregolation in psychopathological and destructive behavior and as evident in attacks onto the body. Affect disregulation as the aftermath of the first level of trauma (early relational trauma, Schore) and second level of trauma.
Communicative capacities in the relation with the other and diagnostic elements in the clinical interview and in the listening attitude.
Different psychodynamic treatments, in the expressive-supportive continuum. Brief and long term psychodynamic treatment. Ethical and therapeutic role and meaning of the concept of "testimony" in the encounter with the other and in the collectivity.
Mood disorders: psychodynamic cpmprehension of depression and suicidality in severe patients (also in borderline patients). Disorders correlated to traumatic and stressful events and dissociative disorders. Difference between dissociation and repression (as in the modern views of trauma and the Freudian view).
Personality disorders of Group B (in DSM -5) (borderline patient) del gruppo B (paziente borderline and group C (narcissistic and antisocial patients). developmental and multidimensional models of personality disorders. Concept of "borderline organization" as in Kernberg.
Health and stress in the mind-body-brain epigenetic model .

Trauma of human agency ves trauma of catastrofic natural origin (Liotti). Three traumatic levels of trauma of human agency: early relational trauma (Schore); maltreatment, neglect, abuse and incest (Ferenczi); massive trauma ( Shoah, war and genocide). intergenerational consequences of trauma: Dori Laub, Y Kogan, R. Yehuda and other authors. Real Trauma versus fantasmatic trauma (differences in the theory and practice of Freud and Ferenczi) and contemporary applications attuali applicazioni of Ferenczi's theory to relational psychotherapy. Differences between PTSD as in DSM-5 and Complex PTSD as in PDM-2.
.IWMs (Bolwby) and their repetition in different relational settings. Repetition compulsion and attachment.

Extended Syllabus

Fundamental principles of psychodynamic psychiatry, Treatment of psychodynamic psychotherapy in individual psychotherapies, Affective disorders, disorders related to traumatic and stressful events, personality disorders and diagnosis (cluster A, B, C), Psychoanalysis of trauma, childhood relationship trauma and massive social trauma , transgenerational transmission of trauma, mourning, connectedness, creativity and the practice of forgiveness. Treatment of the Borderline Patient. Sexuality, Gender, and Identity
Diffusion in Severe Personality Disorders

Recommended Bibliography

Gabbard, G. Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice. Fifth edition. American Psychiatric Press.
Mucci, C. Beyond Individual and Collective Trauma. Routledge. CMucci. Borderline Bodies. New York, Norton.

Teaching Methods

Lectures in class; individual work on the deepening of the topics as discussed in class will be encouraged, with the possibility of expressing personal opinions and fostering a dialogue in the class to discuss the various issues.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

written exams with 30 multiple choice questions; if the exam is passed with a minimum of 18/3o the student will go on to the oral exam.

Contacts/More Information

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