INTEROCEPTIVE CONTRIBUTIONS TO WELL-BEING

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

General Module

Course Sheet

Course code:

PB01B

Academic Year of enrolment:

2023

Year of supply:

2023/2024

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Course of 2nd Cycle Degree in PSYCHOLOGY OF WELL-BEING AND PERFORMANCE

Disciplinary Sector:

Psychobiology and Physiological Psychology

Is part of:

PSYCHOBIOLOGY OF WELL-BEING

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

FERRI FRANCESCA

Cycle:

First semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

Objectives

The course contributes to the achievement of the educational objectives of Psychology of well-being and performance course by providing students with the tools for the knowledge and understanding of the main theories of interoception.
The student must be able to demonstrate the ability to collect and analyse enteroceptive data by means of objective measures (tests, response time, motor activity, eye movements, skin conductance, heart rate, etc.) and subjective measures (anamnestic interview, etc.). Finally, he/she must have specialist knowledge of tools aimed at optimising performance and well-being hrough the enhancement of enteroceptive information.

Contents

Mentalizing Interoception: Advances and Challenges.
From Health to Disease: Interoception in Physical and Mental Health.
Towards a Philosophy of Interoception: Subjectivity and Experience.

Extended Syllabus

Interoception and the autonomic nervous system.
Interoceptive Predictive Processing and the Primacy of Self-Models.
Interoceptive Signals, Brain Dynamics and Subjectivity.
The Embodiment of Time: How Interoception Shapes the Perception of Time.
The Neurobiology of Gut Feelings.
The Cutaneous Borders of Interoception: Active and Social Inference on Pain and Pleasure on The Skin.
Interoception and Emotion: Shared Mechanisms and Clinical Implications.
The Somatic Error Hypothesis of Anxiety.
The Relevance of Interoception for Eating Behavior and Eating Disorders.
Cardiac Interoception in Neurological Conditions and its Relevance for Dimensional Approaches.
Interoception, Categorization and Symptom Perception.
Interoceptive Appraisal and Mental Health
From physiology to experience.
Affective background for bodily awareness.
Allostasis, Interoception, and the Free Energy Principle.
Subjectivity as a Sentient Perspective and the Role of Interoception.

Recommended Bibliography

Manos Tsakiris and Helena De Preester (2018) The Interoceptive Mind: From Homeostasis to Awareness. Oxford University Press

Teaching Methods

Lectures 48 hours. 2-3 hours twice a week. Hands-on seminars. Work groups and discussions will be strongly encouraged. Attendance is not compulsory, but highly recommended.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

The test will be carried out by oral questions and interview, possibly supplemented by a multimedia teaching demonstration.

Evaluation grid:

30 cum laude: in-depth knowledge of the contents of the bibliography and lessons combined with a critical language not only precise and congruous but already inclined to the best teaching effectiveness

28-30: in-depth knowledge of the bibliography and of the content of the lessons expressed through an exact and congruous critical language and of appreciable argumentative clarity.

24-27: Good knowledge of the bibliography and the content of the lessons. Critical language with some inaccuracies and not always congruous to the object, presence of excessive simplifications in the exposure.

18-23: Sometimes uncertain knowledge of the contents of the bibliography and lessons. Critical language in which generalizations and inconsistencies are present. Presence of simplifications partially inadequate to the content of the exhibition.

Invitation to repeat the test:
Serious gaps in the preparation both concerning the texts in the bibliography and the subject of the lessons.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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