Rivista di Psicoanalisi applicata FRENIS Zero

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January  Janvier Gennaio 2020

 

              

 

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NUOVO LIBRO "ESSERE NELLA CURA"  

 

 

Autori: Giacomo Di Marco, Isabella Schiappadori

Editore: Frenis Zero

Collana: Confini della Psicoanalisi

Anno di pubblicazione: 2019

Pagine: 210

ISBN: 978-88-97479-17-8

Dalla presentazione degli Autori: <<La cura introduce nella storia della persona un processo di identificazione che trae vita da ciò che fa: l’atto della cura ci appartiene  e s’incontra con le persone a cui è destinato. In questo moto di identificazione sul quale si fonda la natura della relazione, avviene un processo per cui tratteniamo nel nostro mondo psichico e nell’orizzonte della nostra mente le varie modulazioni del prendersi cura. Esse ci aiutano a pensare i valori impliciti nella relazione di cura, specialmente quando la consideriamo nel passaggio dal piano della possibilità alla dimensione spazio-temporale dell’esistenza e della realtà attuale, nei modi in cui possiamo realizzarla.

In questi ultimi anni dominati da una sorta di ecumenismo psichiatrico, che ha favorito la retorica del dialogo a tutti i costi tra i vari modelli, e ha comportato il fiorire di derive e derivati che hanno svuotato di senso l’agire psichiatrico, ci pare indispensabile sostenere con forza il nostro punto di vista. Non possono essere efficaci le pratiche che non si fondano sul rispetto della soggettività del paziente e dell’operatore. Tenere in conto la soggettività è il fondamento di ogni discorso psicologico e psichiatrico.

Il privilegio, che questo testo attribuisce al “saper essere nella cura”, rappresenta una risposta, un contributo, nella sua parzialità, per ribadire con convinzione la centralità della dimensione relazionale  nel curare.  Pensiamo che la cura possa recuperare visibilità, rispetto e credibilità, se si rinuncia sempre più all'illusione di guarire  e si scopre il piacere di curare, nel duplice aspetto di sentirsi in grado di “funzionare” terapeuticamente  e di offrire alla soggettività sofferente  forme di integrazione evolutiva.>>

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NUOVO LIBRO (in inglese) su ENACTMENT  E PSICOANALISI  

 

 

 

A cura di Giuseppe Leo & Giuseppe Riefolo

Scritti di:   Efrat Ginot  Jay R. Greenberg  Jessica Kraus, Giuseppe Leo, Giuseppe Riefolo,   Jeremy D. Safran

Editore: Frenis Zero

Collana: Confini della Psicoanalisi

Anno di pubblicazione: 2019

Pagine: 326

ISBN: 978-88-97479-15-4

Il libro è dedicato a Jeremy Safran ed a Lewis Aron, eminenti figure di psicoanalisti, recentemente scomparsi, che hanno dedicato pionieristici contributi all’argomento dell’”enactment”. Come ha scritto Safran, sebbene l’enactment sia un concetto problematico e fonte di confusione tra i differenti approcci, esso può conferire alla psicoanalisi, il cui stato di disciplina ‘liminale’ cioè al confine con altre non sempre ad essa epistemologicamente commensurabili (neuroscienze, infant research, antropologia culturale, ecc.), una significativa fonte di vitalità. Il libro esplora il tema dell’”enactment” in relazione a tali confini o aree di transizione, specie nell’introduzione di Giuseppe Leo che ne analizza la genesi storica ed il ruolo di concetto-ponte tra psicoanalisi e psichiatria, tra psicoanalisi e neuroscienze, tra psicoanalisi e pratiche trans-culturali ed esplorandone altresì la valenza trans-generazionale. Jay Greenberg nel suo capitolo discute le varie modalità di partecipazione dell’analista per cui, sebbene un certo grado di azione e ‘mutualità’ possa essere considerato espressione di un modo  meno formalizzato di interazione coll’analizzando,   molte delle vignette cliniche maggiormente influenti nella letteratura contemporanea sottolineano una maggiore tendenza del clinico ad assumersi dei rischi, cosa che però richiede una discussione critica ed attenta ai confini del setting. Giuseppe Riefolo nel suo capitolo, utilizzando vignette cliniche provenienti da setting differenti (psicoanalitico, psichiatrico nel servizio pubblico) esplora un percorso che dall’azione (concepita come qualcosa che impedisce il processo analitico in quanto antitetico rispetto al ricordare ed al rielaborare nelle prime formulazioni teoriche) passa per la relazione (per cui l’enactment diventa un processo e non più solo un evento) fino ad una concezione dell’enactment come espressione di una conoscenza relazionale implicita incarnata che può essere condivisa tra analista e paziente per produrre nuove configurazioni terapeutiche. Nel loro capitolo Safran e Kraus, pur nella consapevolezza che le rotture dell’alleanza terapeutica, le ‘impasse’ e gli ‘enactment’ siano inevitabili, illustrano il loro programma di ricerca che è stato formalizzato in una metodologia di formazione per gli psicoterapeuti volta ad individuare e ad affrontare costruttivamente tali eventi potenzialmente portatori di un esito terapeutico negativo. Infine Efrat Ginot nel capitolo conclusivo espone come, rispetto all’’enactment’ ed all’empatia, sia le osservazioni cliniche che la recente ricerca neuroscientifica forniscano sempre nuove evidenze su ciò che accomuna piuttosto che solo su ciò che  distingue tali due processi intersoggettivi.Un video riassume le tematiche del libro Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deyhMirpeoY

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LIBRO (in inglese) su INFANT RESEARCH  E PSICOANALISI  

 

 

 

 

Dagli articoli di precedenti numeri della rivista di psicoanalisi Frenis Zero  è uscito l'ultimo libro delle nostre edizioni per il momento in inglese e prossimamente in italiano. Il libro è dedicato a due pionieri del dialogo tra psicoanalisi e psicologia dello sviluppo, Daniel Stern e Berry Brazelton. Gli autori del libro sono Beatrice Beebe (New York), che vi ripercorre il suo "viaggio" personale che dura 40 anni all'interno di questo ambito di ricerche, Karlen Lyons-Ruth ed altri che trattano delle rappresentazioni materne della confusione dei ruoli genitoriali,  Colwyn Trevarthen (Edimburgo), che ripercorre la storia delle sue ricerche a contatto con personaggi come Bruner e Brazelton, ed   Edward Tronick (Boston) che tratta delle implicazioni psicoterapeutiche della creazione diadica del significato.La introduzione è di Giuseppe Leo che è anche il curatore.  Il libro è acquistabile su Amazon: amazon.com

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GIORNATA DELLA MEMORIA 2020

 

 

Nel nostro canale YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve0gr6XUNqk Intervista alla psicoanalista Luciana Nissim Momigliano (1919-1998) sulla sua deportazione a Auschwitz-Birkenau.

 

 

NUMERO ON-LINE SU "LA PSICOANALISIS  IN UN'EPOCA DI CONVALIDA EMPIRICA"

 

L'ultimo numero di Frenis Zero (n.33, anno 17, gennaio 2020) è tutto in inglese, si intitola "PSYCHOANALYSIS IN AN AGE OF EMPIRICAL VALIDATION".  

Dall'Editoriale di Giuseppe Leo: <<In quest'ultimo numero della nostra rivista abbiamo pubblicato articoli accomunati da un interesse: in una situazione in cui la psicoanalisi rischia di soffrire di un relativo isolamento rispetto agli altri approcci psicoterapeutici e al "legame coi metodi della biologia, della psicologia, e della psichiatria e, soprattutto, ad una mancanza di sufficiente materiale empirico in grado di supportare l'efficacia del trattamento psicoanalitico" (J. P. Jimenez, in "Psychoanalysis and its Borders",  Edizioni Frenis Zero 2012, a cura di Giuseppe Leo, traduzione del curatore), abbiamo il compito di diffondere una letteratura psicoanalitica non solamente basata su principi ermeneutici, ma aperta alle discipline confinanti (neuroscienze, 'infant research', ecc.) allo scopo di rafforzare quella 'base di evidenze della psicoanalisi' in accordo con cui essa "dovrebbe (...) sviluppare più stretti legami con dati alternativi accogliendo metodologie disponibili nelle moderne scienze sociali e biologiche" (Fonagy et al., 1999, in Fonagy, Kaechele, Krause, Jones, Perron, "An open door review of outcome studies in psychoanalysis: Report prepared by the Research Committee of the IPA at the request of the President", University College, London).

Christian Roesler nell'articolo "Development of Research Designs for Investigating Concepts of Analytical Psychology and the Efficacy/Effectiveness of Jungian Psychotherapy" ("Sviluppo di Progetti di Ricerca per investigare i concetti della Psicologia Analitica e l'efficacia della psicoterapia junghiana") afferma che ciò che emerge in molti studi sugli esiti è che "non è il metodo ad essere cruciale per (prevedere) l'esito della psicoterapia, ma la persona del terapeuta e come egli riesca a creare aspettative positive nel cliente come anche nel gestire la relazione terapeutica. In particolare la capacità del terapeuta di  adattarsi in modo flessibile ai particolari bisogni del paziente così come ai suoi cambiamenti nel corso della terapia sembra essere il fattore cruciale" (Roesler, ibidem).Ciò implica che non abbia molto senso sottolineare l'importanza degli approcci manualizzati, come quelli promossi dalla terapia cognitiva comportamentale. è importante che i candidati siano ben formati in vista di diventare psicoterapeuti competenti: ciò è un prerequisito per qualsiasi studio e progetto sugli esiti delle psicoterapie.

 Jakub Przybyla nel suo articolo "Philosophical and methodological problems concerning   ("Problemi filosofici e metodologici riguardanti la neuropsicoanalisi") critica l'idea di integrare neurobiologia e psicoterapiain base soprattutto allo studio della psicoanalisi e della neuropsicoanalisi. L'autore si concentra sui problemi filosofici e metodologici che scaturiscono dai tentativi di compiere una tale integrazione. L'articolo presenta la tesi che tale approccio porti ad un dannoso riduzionismo. Esso propone anche uno sguardo alla relazione tra psicoterapia e neurobiologia come area di cooperazione che eviti la confusione dei linguaggi teorici.

Al riguardo della comprensione neuroscientifica dei processi di memoria, in particolare nei disturbi dissociativi post-traumatici, è l'articolo di Jelena Radulovic, Royce Lee e Andrew Ortony "State-Dependent Memory: Neurobiological Advances and Prospects for Translation to Dissociative Amnesia". Gli autori cercano di rispondere alla domanda sul perché la memoria per alcune esperienze traumatiche possa essere compromessa mentre altre esperienze altrettanto traumatiche vengano ricordate bene. Essi introducono nel loro articolo prospettive cliniche, cognitive e neurobiologiche sulla ricerca sulla memoria, in particolare esaminando il ruolo della memoria stato-dipendente e discutono in che modo i progressi neurobiologici su questo tipo di memoria, raccolti tra gli studi su animali, possano essere trasferiti agli esseri umani.

Più vicini ad una prospettiva clinica sono gli articoli di Beate Schumacher "'We are all born naked' -  is the rest drag? Some thoughts on gender identity development and psychoanalysis" e di Pilios-Dimitris Stavrou "The consequences of childhood sexual abuse on the conjugal life of a young woman and the effects of the psychoanalytic psychotherapy as a method of treatment".

Infine, l'articolo di Michael Forrester "Psychoanalytic Underpinnings of Socially-Shared Normativity" considera la proposta che il pensiero psicoanalitico possa informare la nostra comprensione del modo in cui la normatività condivisa socialmente emerga durante la prima e la seconda infanzia. 

 

 

Il sommario è al link: http://web.tiscali.it/freniszero 

 

 

 

 

PSICOANALISI E CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI  

Alla pagina http://web.tiscali.it/cispp/schinaia.htm una intervista a Cosimo Schinaia

 

    

 

30° ANNIVERSARIO DELLA CADUTA DEL MURO DI BERLINO

 

Nel nosto Canale You Tube il video il cui testo, scritto da Gerhard Schneider, traenndo spunto dal film "Good-bye Lenin", dà un'interpretazione psicoanalitica al processo che ha portato a tale evento storico. Il video ha sottotitoli in inglese, ma per seguirlo in italiano si può andare al Link: http://web.tiscali.it/freniszero/schneiderfrenis.htm 

 

 

RECENSIONI BIBLIOGRAFICHE

 

Pubblichiamo la recensione, scritta da Brad McLean del libro di Jessica Benjamin "IL RICONOSCIMENTO RECIPROCO. L'intersoggettività e il Terzo" (2019)- Link: http://web.tiscali.it/cispp/benjamin.htm 

 

SEMINARIO CLINICO "LA CURA E LE ISTITUZIONI"  

 

 Il 7 marzo 2020 si  svolgerà nella nostra sede del Centro di Psicoterapia Dinamica "Mauro Mancia" (via Lombardia, n.18 - Lecce)  il seminario "LA CURA E LE ISTITUZIONI" con il dott. Giacomo Di Marco (psichiatra, psicoterapeuta ad orientemento psicoanalitico, Rovereto), Giuseppe Riefolo (psicoanalista SPI, psichiatra ASL ROMA/E), Isabella Schiappadori (psicoterapeuta di formazione psicoanalitica, Mantova). Per info ed iscrizioni contattare la segreteria organizzativa all'indirizzo email assepsi@virgilio.it 

 

VIDEO-RECENSIONE CINEMATOGRAFICA

Prendendo spunto dal film di François Ozon "Grazie a Dio" un excursus psicoanalitico su "Trauma, Terapia, Testimonianza e Perdono" nei casi di abuso infantile. Link del nostro canale YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFOVet8tLeA

 

 

CANALI YOUTUBE DI FRENIS ZERO

 

 1) Nel nostro canale YouTube il video della conferenza di Otto Kernberg "Technical Implications of Transference Structure in Personality Disorders". Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS_pe-13hUM 

 

 

2)Nel nostro canale YouTube il video della conferenza di Ghita El Khayat "Traumi e Migrazioni". Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdkV2-pYmyM

 

3) Nel nostro canale YouTube il video attinenente alla relazione di Jacques André  

"Une psychanalyse de rêve" (5 octobre 2019)

 

 

4) Nel nostro canale YouTube il video attinente alla relazione di 

Miguel BENASAYAG su ibridazione e digitalizzazione

 

5) Nel nostro canale YouTube i video attinenti alla giornata sull'enactment (Lecce, 7 giugno 2019) con interventi di Stefano Benegiamo (medico, psicoanalista AIPA, Lecce), Paolo Boccara (psichiatra, psicoanalista SPI, Roma), Giuseppe Leo (psichiatra, editore Frenis Zero, Lecce), Giovanni Meterangelis (psichiatra, psicoanalista SPI, Roma), Giuseppe Riefolo (psichiatra, psicoanalista SPI, Roma). Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACyl8cyF6ww https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W4-gkXA8_U

 

 

 

6) Nel nostro canale YouTube il video sulla relazione di Stephen Seligman (18 maggio 2019) su Psicoanalisi ed "Infant Research". Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksfHNeqHm0Q 

 

 

7) Nel nostro canale YouTube il video sulla relazione di Nancy McWilliams (16 marzo 2019) "Psicoanalisi oggi e domani". Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-MZLcv7w34 

 

 8) Nel nostro canale YouTube ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoIdc5p6Mx0 ) l'omaggio ad Agnes Heller, la sociologa ungherese attenta alla psicologia degli affetti che è deceduta il 19 luglio 2019 

LIBRO (in Italiano) DELLE EDIZIONI FRENIS ZERO "PSICOANALISI, LUOGHI DELLA

 RESILIENZA ED IMMIGRAZIONE"  

 

AA. VV. "PSICOANALISI, LUOGHI DELLA RESILIENZA ED IMMIGRAZIONE" a cura di Giuseppe Leo 

 

 

 

S. Araùjo Cabral,  L. Curone,  M. Francesconi,  L. Frattini, S. Impagliazzo, D. Centenaro Levandowski, G. Magnani, M. Manetti, C. Marangio,  G. A. Marra e Rosa, M. Martelli, M. R. Moro,  R. K. Papadopoulos, A. Pellicciari,  G. Rigon, D. Scotto di Fasano, E. Zini, A. Zunino, Psicoanalisi, luoghi della resilienza ed immigrazione, Collana "Id-entità Mediterranee", Frenis Zero   2017, ISBN 978-88-97479-11-6, € 39,00,  pagine 372. 

 

 

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 NOVITA': LIBRI IN PRIMO PIANO 

 

"PSICOANALISI IN TERRA SANTA" a cura di A. Cusin e G. Leo

 

H. Abramovitch,  A. Cusin, M. Dwairy, A. Lotem, M. Mansur, M. P. Salatiello, "Psicoanalisi in Terra Santa",  prefazione di Anna Sabatini Scalmati, Postfazione di Christoph U. Schminck-Gustavus, Note di Nader Akkad, Collana "Id-entità Mediterranee",  Frenis Zero   2017, ISBN 978-88-97479-12-3, € 29,00 (rilegatura rigida), euro 20,00 (rilegatura economica). 

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PSICOLOGIA DELL'ANTISEMITISMO (2.a edizione) di Imre Hermann

 

 

Imre Hermann, "Psicologia dell'antisemitismo",  a cura di Giuseppe Leo, Collana "Cordoglio e Pregiudizio",  Frenis Zero 2017, ISBN 978-88-97479-10-9, € 18,00. 

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ESSERE BAMBINI A GAZA. IL TRAUMA INFINITO di Maria Patrizia Salatiello 

 

Maria Patrizia Salatiello, "Essere bambini a Gaza. Il trauma infinito",  Collana "Id-entità Mediterranee",  Frenis Zero   2016,        ISBN 978-88-97479-08-6, € 35,00.

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PSYCHOANALYSIS, COLLECTIVE TRAUMAS AND MEMORY PLACES (English edition) (edited by Giuseppe Leo, prefaced by Robert D Hinshelwood) 

 

Altounian, Bohleber, Deutsch, Halberstadt-Freud, Hinshelwood, Gampel, Janigro, Leo, Papadopoulos, Ritter, Varvin, Wirth, Psychoanalysis, Collective Traumas and Memory Places,(English Edition) Collection "Mediterranean                   Id-entities",  Frenis Zero   2015,        ISBN 978-88-97479-09-3, € 35,50.

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  LIBRO DELLE EDIZIONI FRENIS ZERO:

 

Lene Auestad, Werner Bohleber, Sverre Varvin, Vamik Volkan, Linden West

FUNDAMENTALISM AND PSYCHOANALYSIS 

a cura di Giuseppe Leo

Edizioni Frenis Zero - collana ID-ENTITA' MEDITERRANEE - 2017 - pagg. 214

 

 

 

 

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ULTIMO NUMERO (N.33, anno XVII,  gennaio 2020) della RIVISTA TELEMATICA "FRENIS ZERO"

E'  consultabile sul sito internet della rivista di psicoanalisi "Frenis Zero" (link: http://web.tiscali.it/bibliopsi/frenishome.htm ) il numero 33 (anno 17, gennaio 2020), numero semestrale monografico intitolato "Psychoanalysis in an Age of Empirical Validation".  

 

 

 

  PSYCHOANALYSIS IN AN AGE OF EMPIRICAL VALIDATION

 

 

 

INDICE N.33, anno XVII, gennaio 2020 

Editoriale di Giuseppe Leo

<<DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCH  DESIGNS FOR  INVESTIGATING CONCEPTS  OF ANALYTICAL  PSYCHOLOGY  AND THE EFFICACY/EFFECTIVENESS  OF  JUNGIAN  PSYCHOTHERAPY >> di Christian  Roesler

 <<PHILOSOPHICAL aND  METHODOLOGICAL  PROBLEMS  CONCERNING  NEUROPSYCHOANALYSIS>> di Jakub Przybyla

 <<STATE-DEPENDENT MEMORY:  NEUROBIOLOGICAL ADVANCES  AND  PROSPECTS  FOR TRANSLATION TO DISSOCIATIVE AMNESIA>> di Jelena Radulovic, Royce Lee, Andrew Ortony

<<'WE ARE ALL BORN NAKED' - IS THE REST DRAG?  SOME THOUGHTS ON GENDER IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT AND PSYCHOANALYSIS>> di Beate Schumacher

<<THE CONSEQUENCES  OF CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE ON THE CONJUGAL LIFE OF A YOUNG WOMAN AND THE EFFECTS OF THE PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY AS A METHOD OF TREATMENT>> di Pilios-Dimitris Stavrou

<<PSYCHOANALYTIC  UNDERPINNINGS  OF  SOCIALLY-SHARED  NORMATIVITY>> di Michael  Forrester

 

 

 

 

    Newsletter en français: notre newsletter (A.S.S.E.Psi. NEWS) sera envoyée à  tous qui en demanderont (le formulaire est à  la page web : 

http://web.tiscali.it/bibliopsi/mail.htm  ).   

1)      Au lien de Frenis Zero (http://web.tiscali.it/bibliopsi/frenishome.htm) Vous pouvez lire le sommaire du Numéro 33, an 17 (janvier 2020) de notre journal, dédié au sujet de <<Psychoanalysis in an Age of Empirical Validation>> (articles en anglais). 

 

 

 

2) Chaîne You Tube de Frenis Zero: "René Roussillon parle du dialogue entre Psychanalyse et Psychothérapie" Lien: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbsuPrTx1g4  


3) Chaine You Tube de Frenis Zero: Jacques André parle d'une psychanalyse de rêve. Lien: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0H14YfoP3E 


 

 

  Newsletter in English: our newsletter (A.S.S.E.Psi. NEWS) will be sent to everyone who requests it (the form is at the link 

http://web.tiscali.it/bibliopsi/mail.htm  .

 

 

 

1)  We  are glad to announce the issue of the last number (n.33, year 17, January 2020) of Frenis Zero on-line journal: "PSYCHOANALYSIS IN AN AGE OF EMPIRICAL VALIDATION". The table of contents is at url: http://web.tiscali.it/bibliopsi/frenishome.htm . The papers are  in English. 

 

From the Editorial written by Giuseppe Leo: << In this last number of our journal we published some papers sharing one common concern: in a situation in which psychoanalysis risks to suffer for a relative isolation from other psychotherapeutic approach and <<methodological links to biology, psychology and psychiatry, and, above all, lacking in sufficient empirical research to support the efficacy of psychoanalytic treatment>> (J. P. Jimenez, 2012, in "Psychoanalysis and its Borders, edited by G. Leo, p.127), we have to spread a psychoanalytic literature not solely based on hermeneutic principles, but open to confining fields of science (neuroscience, Infant Research, etc.) in order to strengthen "the evidence base of psychoanalysis" in accordance with which psychoanalysis <<should (...) develop closer links with alternative data gathering methods available in modern social and biological science>> (Fonagy et al., 1999, in Fonagy, Kaechele, Krause, Jones, Perron, "An open door review of outcome studies in psychoanalysis: Report prepared by the Research Committee of the IPA at the request of the President University College, London, p.45)

Christian Roesler in his article "Development of Research Designs for Investigating Concepts of Analytical Psychology and the Efficacy/Effectiveness of Jungian Psychotherapy" maintains that what emerges in many outcome studies   << it is not the method which is crucial for outcome in psychotherapy, but the person of the therapist and how he/she succeeds in creating positive expectations in the client as well as in handling the therapeutic relationship. Especially the capacity of the therapist to adapt in a flexible way to the special needs of the client as well as to their changes over the course of therapy seems to be a crucial factor.>> (Roesler, ibidem). This implies that emphasizing manualized approaches, like the ones promoted by CBT, does not make really sense. It is important that candidated could be well trained  in order to become competent psychotherapists: this is a pre-requisite for any outcome psychotherapy project and study. 

Jakub Przybyla in the paper "Philosophical and methodological problems concerning neuropsychoanalysis" criticizes the idea of integrating neurobiology and psychotherapy based mainly on the study of psychoanalysis and neuropsychoanalysis. The author focuses on the philosophical and methodological problems which arise from attempts to carry out this integration. The article presents the view that this approach is a harmful reduction. It also proposes a look at the relationship between psychotherapy and neurobiology as an area ofcooperation that avoids the confusion of theoretical languages. 

Concerning neuroscientific understanding of memory processes, particularly in post-traumatic dissociative disorders, is the paper by Jelena Radulovic, Royce Lee and Andrew Ortony "State-Dependent Memory: Neurobiological Advances and Prospects for Translation to Dissociative Amnesia". The authors try to answer to the question of why memory for some traumatic experiences is compromised whereas other comparably traumatic experiences are remembered well. They introduce in their article clinical, cognitive, and neurobiological perspectives on memory research, in particular examining the role of state-dependent memory and discuss how advances in neurobiology of this kind of memory, gleaned from animal studies, might be translated to humans. 

Closer to a clinical perspective are the papers by Beate Schumacher "'We are all born naked'- is the rest drag? Some thoughts on gender identity development and psychoanalysis", and by Pilios-Dimitris Stavrou "The Consequences of Childhood Sexual Abuse on the Conjugal Life of a Young Woman and the Effects of the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy  as a Method of Treatment".  

Finally, Michael Forrester's article "Psychoanalytic Underpinnings of Socially-Shared Normativity" considers the proposal that psychoanalytic thinking might inform our understanding of how socially shared normativity emerges during infancy and early childhood. First, a framework is sketched out that highlights the fact that from the beginning, an infant’s earliest experience is bound up with those procedures, practices, and social actions that make up what conversation analysts call members’ methods. Second, comparisons are drawn between conversation analysis and psychoanalytic accounts of early experience for infants during the first years of life. Discussion then moves to the Kleinian notion of object relations and the concept of projective identification. Essentially, this is a theoretical account of how “what-was-once-one” (the mother-infant unit) somehow differentiates resulting in the gradual emergence of the “individuated being.” What is often glossed over in this account is the discursively embedded nature of projective identification; a process that is itself interdependent with the embodiment that makes up the infant’s lived engagement with the world. Whatever might constitute consciousness emerges from somatic, embodied, material-physical, tactile/affective experience – that is, a fundamentally social milieu. Ultimately, this raises the question of how transformation (i.e., from the social to the individual) occurs. One answer may be Winnicott’s idea of the transitional space, where the “good-enough” parent is said to be somebody, who can “contain” both negative and positive identifications coming from the infant, transform and re-project such identifications, but in modified form. In this way, the infant begins to recognize/experience what it is they are “feeling.” Such projective identifications are conveyed within and through the prevailing discourses that constitute all social practices. Concluding comments note that conversation analysis may find in psychoanalytic thinking a framework for understanding the interdependence between affect and action, given that in psychoanalytic thought, we find a thoroughly relational conception of human nature.    

 

 

 

 

 

2)Some psychoanalytic notes about TRAUMA, THERAPY, WITNESSING, and FORGIVING taking the cue from François Ozon's film "By the Grace of God" (texts by Giuseppe Leo) Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFOVet8tLeA 

 

 

3) We  are glad to announce the issue of the last book  published in English by Edizioni Frenis Zero: "ENACTMENT IN PSYCHOANALYSIS" edited by Giuseppe Leo and Giuseppe Riefolo, writings by Efrat Ginot, Jay R Greenberg, Jessica Kraus, Jeremy D Safran. Collection "Borders of Psychoanalysis", Frenis Zero publisher, Lecce 2019, pp.326.

 

 

The book is dedicated to Jeremy Safran and Lewis Aron, whose recent  loss drove the editors as well as the publisher to gather these contributions about enactment, a topic to whom Safran and Aron devoted many papers of theirs. As Safran wrote, though problematic and source of confusion among different psychoanalytic approaches, the epistemological status of psychoanalysis, related to its condition of ‘liminality’, is a meaningful source of vitality for the discipline. The book explores the subject of enactment in relation to boundaries in psychoanalysis, referring to a series of viewpoints that lead to many crucial areas. 

 

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4) We  are glad to announce the issue of the book  published in English by Edizioni Frenis Zero:"INFANT RESEARCH AND PSYCHOANALYSIS" edited by Giuseppe Leo, writings by Beatrice Beebe, Karlen Lyons-Ruth, Jeremy P. Nahum, Elisabet Solheim, Colwyn Trevarthen, Edward Z. Tronick, Lauriane Vulliez-Coady. Collection "Borders of Psychoanalysis", Frenis Zero publisher, Lecce 2018, pp.273.

 

 

This book has the hard task to cover an interdisciplinary area in which psychoanalysis has to deal with infant research. The development of infant research methodologies is illustrated in the present book by the contribution written by Beatrice Beebe, whose ‘journey’ leads us through the ‘creating’ of a discipline with its creators, her traveling companions, such as Daniel Stern, Frank Lachmann, Joseph Jaffe and many others. Trevarthen’s chapter is a discussion of his work with T. Berry Brazelton, passed away on March 2018. Brazelton used his trust and enjoyment of innocent company to greet a newborn infant as a friend, and he showed that the baby is read to share friendship with mother and father, giving them joy. Brazelton’s belief in innate human nature transformed pediatric care and early diagnosis of developmental disorders, guiding treatment, not ‘of’ the baby, but ‘with’ him/her as an individual with unique expressions of vitality. The last two chapters, instead, deal with clinical implications of infant research. Tronick’s contribution focuses on mother-infant dyad as well as on analyst-patient one, conceived as open dynamic systems, capable of meaning making, in which coherence is at best imperfect, and coordination alternates with mismatching. In open dynamic systems messiness itself is inherent to the process of meaning making because of limitations in their capacity, «their different time scales, the many polymorphs of meaning that have to be integrated, and because of the many kinds of meaning making processes» (including affective, cognitive, memorial, linguistic, bodily and psychodynamic meaning making processes, such as a dynamic unconscious, projective identification and transference). «Dyadic states of consciousness» Tronick writes in the chapter «are joint creations and, as such, bring together the messy, unpredictable and inchoate features of two individuals’ state of consciousness, not just the messiness of one». But meaning meaning processes and security making ones, though normally overlapping each other, are not the same, and this heterogeneity between motivational systems (Lichtenberg et al., 2011) can cover the heterogeneity of psychopathological conditions. Lyons-Ruth and colleagues’ chapter is focused on the representational world of the mother, particularly on the assessment of mother’s representation of role-confusion in her relation with her child. The authors call attention to the dimension of sexualisation in the relationship, a high indicator of role-confusion. This emerging body of work points to the importance of being alert to indicators of role-confusion in the clinical setting. The findings can inform and enrich counselling and psychology practice by familiarizing clinicians with how to listen for indicators of role-confusion while talking with parents about their relationship with the child.

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Two videos, in Frenis Zero YouTube channel, devoted to Daniel Stern and Berry Brazelton, take a cue from the chapters in this book:

a) "A Tribute to Dan Stern". Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LggjzmUeO4

 

b) "Tribute to Berry Brazelton". Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQER32NadVo 

 

 

5) NEW VIDEO about the Holocaust Remembrance Day: Interview with Luciana Nissim Momigliano (1919-1998) about her deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau in our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve0gr6XUNqk

 

6) NEW ARTICLE IN ENGLISH: "REFLECTIONS OF A ROCK 'N' ROLL DRUMMER-ANALYST" by Heather Ferguson.  

 

Link: http://web.tiscali.it/cispp/ferguson.htm 

 

 

7) Book "FUNDAMENTALISM AND PSYCHOANALYSIS", Giuseppe Leo (Editor), Prefaced by Vamik D. Volkan, writings by Lene Auestad, Werner Bohleber, Sverre Varvin, Linden West. Collection "Mediterranean Id-entities", Frenis Zero publisher, Lecce 2017, pp.214. 

 

 

The collection “Mediterranean Id-entities” is devoted to publish books in order to investigate the role of Mediterranean cultures from a psychoanalytic point of view, in front of the anthropological transformations concerning human societies and social institutions in the contemporary world. This book has the hard task to cover an interdisciplinary area in which psychoanalysis has to deal with fundamentalism as a social phenomenon and therefore with ‘bordering’ disciplines (such as religion history, transcultural studies, cultural anthropology) often with epistemologies that for origin and history appear to be incomparable to it. Lene Auestad intends to integrate the psychological analysis of the subject with its social embedding. She investigates the importance of the social unconscious and its effects on the prejudiced intentions of the individual apart from its own active interpretations. She highlights the importance the psychoanalytical approach provides in understanding the unspoken, unconscious contents of the social phenomena and how much the socially critical approach is able to enrich the analytical view which merely focuses on the subject regarding the effects of the social consensus. While Auestad’s scrutiny aims at the social convention’s role as an agent affecting the individual’s deeds and thinking, Linden West’s contribution draws on ‘psycho-social’ understandings, combining psychoanalysis and critical theory, as well as the work of John Dewey, to interrogate Islamic fundamentalist groups in a post-industrial city. It explores processes of self-recognition in groups and paranoid-schizoid modes of functioning, in which unwanted parts of self and of culture are split off and projected on to the other. The world is correspondingly divided into good and bad, pure and impure. John Dewey makes a crucial distinction between processes of democratic education and closed groups, which is what fundamentalist groups are, by reference to the quality of relationship to the other, and to experiential and narrative openness. However, it is also suggested that fundamentalism is ordinary, in that each of us can feel out of our depth, at times, and we may grab at ideas promising truth and nothing but the truth, which is ultimately illusion. Except not everyone reaches for a Kalashnikov, which is where individual biographies matter for subtler understanding of difference within commonalities. Fundamentalism has increasingly become a part of the political discourse in Western countries and is to a large degree associated with Islamic Jihadism. Fundamentalism has, however, been a concern in all religions, and Werner Bohleber in this book discusses its connections with violence in monotheistic religions. Fundamentalism is also a concern in professional organisations and in this book Sverre Varvin discusses the relation between fundaments for a science and fundamentalism in psychoanalysis. This is related to general trends of fundamentalism in religious and political contexts. A central question is how adherence to fundamentals, understood at basic principles for a profession or a religious-political movement, may develop into fundamentalism and how this may develop into more violent forms. Psychoanalytic understanding of mass psychology and unconscious processes at group levels are developed in this book by each of the outstanding authors in order to understand present Islamic and other forms of fundamentalist movements in the European context.

 

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8) "NEUROSCIENCE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS", G. Leo (ed.), prefaced by Georg Northoff, writings by  David Mann, Allan N. Schore, Robert Stickgold, Bessel A. Van Der Kolk, Grigoris Vaslamatzis, Matthew P. Walker, Collection "Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience", Frenis Zero Publisher, Lecce 2014, pp.300, € 49,00.

The book gathers some papers concerning the dialogue between neuroscience and psychoanalysis. Following the Introduction written by Georg Northoff, concerning the possibility of overcoming the highly impasse generating contraposition between localizationism and holism, G. Vaslamatzis deals with a “Framework for a new dialogue between psychoanalysis and neurosciences”. In this chapter the author describes three points of epistemological congruence: firstly, dualism is no longer a satisfactory solution; secondly, cautions for the centrality of interpretation (hermeneutics); and, thirdly, the self-criticism of neuroscientists. David W.Mann in his contribution “The mirror crack’d: dissociation and reflexivity in self and group phenomena” tries to show how reflexive processes generate each of three levels of the human system (self, relationships, group) and integrate them one to another, while dissociative processes tend throughout to pull them apart. Health and illness within the self, the relationship and the group can be understood as special states of the dynamic equilibria between these cohesive and dispersive trends. In “Sleep, memory and plasticity” Matthew P. Walker and Robert Stickgold outline a review of the researches following the discovery of rapid eye movement (REM) and non-REM (NREM) sleep, and specifically of those that began testing the hypothesis that sleep, or even specific stages of sleep, actively participated in the process of memory development. The last two chapters, “Clinical implications of neuroscience research in PTSD” by Bessel A. Van Der Kolk, and “Dysregulation of the right brain: a fundamental mechanism of traumatic attachment and the psychopathogenesis of PTSD” by Allan N. Schore, demonstrate how the psychopathology of traumatic conditions can be a fertile field of dialogue between neuroscience and psychoanalysis.

 

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  9)  "PSYCHOANALYSIS AND ITS BORDERS",  G. Leo (ed.), writings by J. Altounian, P. Fonagy, G.O. Gabbard,  J.S. Grotstein,  R.D. Hinshelwood,  J.P. Jiménez, O.F. Kernberg,  S. Resnik. Collection "Borders of Psychoanalysis", Frenis Zero Publisher, Lecce 2012, pp. 348, € 19,00. 

Eight outstanding theoreticians of contemporary psychoanalysis reflect on psychoanalysis and its borders and boundaries between it and adjacent disciplines such as neuroscience, psychiatry, and social sciences. The book celebrates ten years of existence of Frenis Zero psychoanalytic journal.
You can view a video introducing the book in our You Tube Channel ( www.youtube.com/frenis0 )
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10)  Video launching the next number of Frenis Zero psychoanalytic journal (june 2017) about "Fundamentalism and Psychoanalysis"

 

Fundamentalism and Psychoanalysis from Frenis Zero on Vimeo.

 

 

 

11) "JAAK PANKSEPP (1943-2017) A HOMMAGE". In Frenis Zero video Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJsWvpqIRlg&t=335s 

 

 

 

12) "PARENTALITY AND CAREGIVING MOTIVATIONAL SYSTEM" by Joseph Lichtenberg in Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_BOVnsNt28&t=103s 

 

 

 

 

 

13) "ANXIETY" by Joseph LeDoux  in Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ydqgx_zerc 

 

 

14) "HANNAH AND FORMS OF VITALITY. A review by Giuseppe Leo" https://assepsi.wistia.com/medias/enhtfz3lpi 

 

 

 

 

 

15) "LADY BIRD". A review by Sandra E. Cohen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkdUAW_uY04 

 

16) LEWIS ARON ABOUT GENERATIVE ENACTMENT. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGbZ4Wm9VG8 

 

17) LEWIS ARON TALKS ABOUT HAROLD SEARLES. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIHK7SGzudo 

18) "GENDER IDENTITY AND SELF VITALITY IN THREE MOVIES". Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zVwkeZdOHk 


                   19) "ROCK & PSYCHOANALYSIS" by Giuseppe Leo    Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcsFGlY6UuQ 
                    20) "THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER. Review by Giuseppe Leo"    Link (Linkedin): https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6494517152308043776 
 

21) "THE SELF AND ITS TIME" by Georg Northoff Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuLkh2qRsyo 

22) "PSYCHOANALYSIS TODAY AND TOMORROW" by Nancy McWilliams (Mar 16, 2019). Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-MZLcv7w34 
23) "STYX" reviewed by Giuseppe Leo. Link:https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x794y9k 

 

 

 

 

 

24) N-Psa Newsletters, New York Psychoanalytic Institute and IPA newsletters

 

(source: N-PSA newsletter)

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:


NYPSI EXTENSION COURSES

Fall 2019 - Spring 2020
 

PSYCHOANALYTIC PRINCIPLES OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT    
October 21 - November 18, 2019
Instructor: David Sawyer, M.D.
Fee: $150

INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOANALYTIC  PSYCHOSOMATICS --- NEW COURSE!
October 24, 2019 - February 6, 2020
Instructors: Francis Baudry, M.D. and Christine Anzieu, M.D., Ph.D.
Fee: $185


THE INTERPERSONAL APPROACH TO WORKING WITH VETERANS
November 9, 2019
Instructors: Andrew S. Berry, Ph.D., Psy.D. and  Captain Nate Emery, USMC (Ret'd)
Fee: $85


A PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH TO PSYCHOSIS --- NEW COURSE!
January 6 - February 24, 2020
Instructor: Thomas Wolman, M.D.
Fee: $185


PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY OF CANCER PATIENTS
January 16 - January 30, 2020
Instructor: Norman Straker, M.D.
Fee: $115


PSYCHOANALYTIC COUPLE THERAPY
March 12 - March 26, 2020
Instructors: Graciela Abelin-Sas Rose, M.D. and Peter Mezan, Ph.D.
Fee: $115


SHAME AND CONFLICT--- NEW COURSE!
April 2 - April 23, 2020
Instructor: Ian Buckingham, M.D.
Fee: $150 

For more details, visit: nypsi.org/class-schedule/#extension

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 


A Psychoanalytic Approach to Psychosis

Thomas Wolman, M.D.
Mondays, January 6 - February 24, 2020
7:00 - 8:15 p.m.
6 classes  /  $185
Location: NYPSI ( 247 East 82nd Street, NYC)
To register, click here, visit nypsi.org or call 212-879-6900
Extension Program:  A Psychoanalytic Approach to Psychosis
This class will present the outline of a comprehensive approach to psychosis from the psychoanalytic perspective. It will begin with an examination of various models of psychotic functioning put forth by investigators such as Freud, Searles, Bion, Ogden and Lacan. These models permit a revised view of diagnosis that differs from the standard psychiatric viewpoint laid out in DSMV. The class will lay particular emphasis on the practical import of correct diagnosis. The diagnostic process will need to be broad enough to include patients with a history of psychosis who are not currently psychotic, as well as so-called "ordinary psychotics". The syllabus will then proceed to a discussion of treatment that includes changes in the therapeutic format and setting and modifications in the type of intervention used. In considering these changes, the class will take up the question of the aim of treatment: How it differs from traditional approaches while still qualifying as authentically psychoanalytic.

7.5 CME/CE credits offered for the course in its entirety. 
Thomas Wolman, M.D. was born and raised in in New York City. He moved back here recently after having lived in Philadelphia for 45 years. He attended Johns Hopkins University and the Pennsylvania State University Medical College. Subsequently he trained at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, where he taught in both the psychoanalytic and psychotherapy training programs. He has taught at Jefferson Medical College, the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and most recently, the psychiatry residency at Temple University School of Medicine. He has written on Winnicott, Mahler, Kohut and Lacan, as well as on contemporary film and literary themes. He is married with two adult children and three grandchildren.

"The Language of the Mother and the Language of the Father: 
Sabina Spielrein's Anticipation of the Concepts of Jacques Lacan, Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray "

Klara Naszkowska, Ph.D.
Wednesday, January 8, 2020 | 8:00 pm
New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute
247 East 82nd Street, NYC (btwn 2nd and 3rd Aves)
$20 - General Admission
$15 - Student Admission
No charge for NYPSI members/students
Register HERE, visit nypsi.org or call 212.879.6900
Works in Progress Seminar:  The Language of the Mother and the Language of the Father

Sabina Spielrein (1885-1942) was a Russian-Jewish forerunner of child analysis. I will focus on her model of the development of language and thought first formulated in the presentation delivered at the International Psychoanalytic Congress held in The Hague in 1920, and then expanded in a number of papers. I will show how Spielrein's model anticipated by thirty years Jacques Lacan's concept of the three orders, Real, Imaginary and Symbolic, and how her concept of the autistic primitive language associated with the mother anticipated the theories of Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray who postulate a non-symbolic feminine language associated with the mother, corporality and feminine  jouissance .

No CME or CE credits offered.
Klara Naszkowska, Ph.D., cultural historian, founding director of the International Association for Spielrein Studies ( www.spielreinassociation.org), and 2019/2020 Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Union Theological Seminary (Columbia University). Recent and forthcoming publications: "Passions, Politics, and Drives: Sabina Spielrein in Soviet Russia" in:  Sabina Spielrein and the Beginnings of Psychoanalysis: Thought, Word, and Image (Routledge, 2019) and "Sabina Spielrein: Searching for her own path" in:  Psychoanalysis in the Shadow of War and Holocaust (in Polish, Universitas, 2020). Klara is the main organizer of the first International Conference "Sabina Spielrein and the Early Female Pioneers of Psychoanalysis" (2-4 April 2020, Warsaw).
Works in Progress Seminar
 
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of 
Cancer Patients

Norman Straker, M.D.
January 16 - 30, 2019
Thursdays, 7:15 - 8:45 pm
3 classes  /  $115
Location: NYPSI (247 East 82nd Street, NYC)
To register, click here, visit nypsi.org or call 212-879-6900
NYPSI Extension Course: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Cancer Patients
This course will provide the therapist with an introduction to psychoanalytic psychotherapy for cancer patients and their families. The first session will address the unique challenges for the therapist  of helping the patient face cancer at various stages of the disease. Death anxiety in both the patient and therapist has tended to result in avoiding this painful discussion in psychotherapy at all stages of the disease. Session two focuses on how countertransference avoidance of death can best be managed by interventions that are based on empirical studies and forty years of clinical experience. These new interventions can now permit the therapist to be fully present for the dying patient. Session three will highlight the challenges facing the spouses of dying cancer patients, including preparation for death and managing grief and mourning. A video "The Courage to Survive: Facing the Loss of Your Soul Mate" will illustrate the psychoanalytic treatment of a spouse during the terminal phrase of his wife's illness and after her death.
Norman Straker, M.D. is Clinical Professor, Weill Cornell Medical Center; Consultant, Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; and Attending Psychiatrist, New York Presbyterian Hospital. He is the author of Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Treatment. Dr. Straker is on the faculty of NYPSI.
4.5 CME/ CE CREDITS OFFERED.

 

"On Having Whiteness"

Presenter: Donald Moss, M.D.
Discussant: Dorothy E. Holmes, Ph.D.
Tuesday, January 14, 2020,  8:00 - 10:00 pm
New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute
247 East 82nd Street, NYC (btwn 2nd and 3rd Aves)
$30 - General Admission
$20 - Student Admission
No charge for NYPSI members and students

Register HERE  
visit 
nypsi.org  or call 212.879.6900
This presentation will focus on Whiteness as a condition one first acquires and then one has- a malignant, parasitic-like, condition. The condition is malignant because it spreads/metastasizes, targeting an ever-widening sphere of objects. It is parasitic in that it is contagious, passed on by other infected people.  Biologically "white" people have a particular susceptibility to "Whiteness". This susceptibility is grounded in pre-existing hierarchical representations of self and object - in any representation that organizes self and other in a vertical relation, powerful and powerless. The condition is foundational, generating characteristic ways of being in one's body, in one's mind, and in one's world. Parasitic Whiteness renders its hosts' appetites voracious, insatiable and perverse. In order to preserve and defend its original hierarchies, it must continuously engender new and expansive ones. For Whiteness, the most perceptually available category over which to establish hierarchical relations is "color". Race provides "Whiteness" its easiest target.

2 CME/CE credits offered. 
 

 



 
 

 


 








LAST ARTICLES IN ENGLISH:

"ENACTMENT AND BOUNDARIES IN PSYCHOANALYSIS"  by Giuseppe Leo

"From action to Relationship. Enactment as a Process" by Giuseppe Riefolo

"Reflections of a Rock 'n' Roll Drummer-Analyst" by 

Heather Ferguson

"Memory Reconsolidation: Hope for a Terminal Analysis?" by Kate Mehuron

"The Dead Sibling: A Family Secret and its Consequences" by Massimiliano Sommantico

"Presence and Lingering: Psychoanalysis in a Mindfulness Frame"  by Chin Li

"Vaginal Veritas. Thoughts on Misogyny, Psychoanalysis, and Democracy" by Jill Gentile

"Remembering Jeremy Safran" by Sara Weber

"Reactivity, Regulation, and Reward Responses to Infant Cues among Mothers with and without Psychopathology: an fMRI study"                     by K. Lyons-Ruth et al.

Special number about "Vitality and Psychoanalysis", Frenis Zero, n.30, June 2018:

Colwyn Trevarthen, Jonathan T. Delafield-Butt, <<Autism as a Developmental Disorder in Intentional Movement and Affective Engagement>>

Giacomo Rizzolatti et al., <<Vitality Forms processing in the Insula during Action Observation>>

 

 

Special number about "Fundamentalism and Psychoanalysis", Frenis Zero, n.28, June 2017:

 Linden West, <<The psychoanalytical inspiration and critical theory: comparing adult education and Islamic fundamentalism>>

Sverre Varvin, <<The fundamentalist fantasy>>

 (to read the papers click on the below link) 

url: http://web.tiscali.it/freniszero 

 

 

And about Psychoanalytic Supervision:

Nancy McWilliams, "Some observations about Supervision/Consultation Groups"

 

 

 

FRENIS ZERO ONLINE JOURNAL:

DIRETTORE RESPONSABILE:  Giuseppe Leo

DIRETTORE EDITORIALE:  Nicole Janigro 

SCIENTIFIC BOARD

Janine Altounian (Parigi), Leonardo Ancona (Roma), Brenno Boccadoro (Ginevra),  Werner Bohleber (Francoforte sul Meno), Mario Colucci (Trieste), Lidia De Rita (Bari), Santa Fizzarotti Selvaggi (Bari), Patrizia Guarnieri (Firenze), Robert Hinshelwood (Londra), René Kaes (Lione), Otto Kernberg (New York), Massimo Maisetti (Milano), Lidia Marigonda (Venezia), Predrag Matvejevic' (Zagabria), Franca Maisetti Mazzei (Milano), Laura Montani (Roma), Marie Rose Moro (Parigi), Salomon Resnik (Parigi), Mario Rossi Monti (Firenze), Mario Scarcella (Messina), Sverre Varvin (Oslo), Vamik D. Volkan (Charlottesville, USA).


 

 

Le illustrazioni contenute in questa  Newsletter sono tratte da:  "From Neurology to Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud's Neurological Drawings and Diagrams of the Mind" di Lynn Gamwell and Mark Solms.

La prossima newsletter verrà  inviata nel mese di Febbraio 2020. 

Cordiali saluti...

 

  La prochaine newsletter sera envoyée en  Février 2020. Cordiales salutations.

 

 

  The next newsletter is in February 2020.

Best regards.

 

 

 

 

Giuseppe Leo

Direttore Responsabile (Editor) rivista di psicoanalisi applicata Frenis Zero

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

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