and
history of the group of Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane
["Psychotherapy,
Humanities, and Social Sciences"]
Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane
continues the initiatives that started 1960 by the Milan Group for the
Advancement of Psychotherapy - Study Center of Clinical Psychotherapy of Milan,
Italy, led by Pier Francesco Galli, M.D. This group begun to meet informally in 1960 around the book series "Library of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology"
founded by Pier Francesco Galli, M.D., in collaboration
with Gaetano Benedetti, M.D., and published by Feltrinelli
of Milan. The explicit philosophy of the group was based on the following:
a connection, in real time, with international psychiatry, psychotherapy,
and psychoanalysis, in order to fill the gap existing in Italy at that time
dissemination of small continuing education groups that could multiply by
themselves, with a centrifugal impetus, decreasing
the institutional dependency and fostering the responsibility of
individual training processes (at least three of the most influential
psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic schools in Milan are an outgrowth of the Milan
Group for the Advancement of Psychotherapy)
in the original group and in the following organizations there
was a continuous theoretical and clinical confrontation among colleagues
belonging to different approaches: the first group was made of Freudians, Dasein-analysts
(phenomenologists), interpersonalists, Jungians, and Kleinians
simultaneously with these private training activities, several initiatives
of psychiatric and psychotherapeutic training in the public sector (psychiatric
hospitals and Community Mental Health Centers) were activated; for example, in 1961 the Milan
Group for the Advancement of Psychotherapy introduced in Italy the Balint groups
method and the psychiatric and psychoanalytic
culture of Silvano Arieti, Frieda
Fromm-Reichmann, Clara Thompson, and Harry Stack Sullivan
a "lay" view of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, i.e., not
conceived as a subspecialty of psychiatry or clinical psychology but as a
critique to culture, science, and preexisting equilibriums,
as irreducible to other disciplines, and - differently from religions and
ideologies - as void of assertiveness and consolatory aspects
the exercise of critique as a method of knowledge and research
a project of continuing education rather than formal training programs
the exploration of the space between "psychoanalism" and the
"psychotherapies"
the epistemology of deconstruction
the link between psychoanalytic culture and social sciences (the
humanities)
In 1962 the first training course, titled "Problems of
Psychotherapy", was organized at the Museo della Scienza e della Tecnica
("Science and Technology Museum") of Milan. Between 1963 and 1965 six more training courses were organized, always
in the same setting, with the participation of the best experts that psychiatry,
psychotherapy and psychoanalysis of the time, both in Italy and abroad, could
offer
(see for example the Proceedings
of the One-Day Course of October 10, 1965, with papers by Pier
Francesco Galli, Gaetano Benedetti, Christian Mueller, Johannes Cremerius, and
Michael Balint; P.F. Galli's paper was followed by interventions of Mario Moreno, Franco Basaglia, Antonio Jaria,
Franco Giberti, Giuseppe Maffei, Dario De Martis, Piero Leonardi, Edoardo
Balduzzi, Giorgio Zanocco, Antonino Lo Cascio, Cesare Musatti, and Cornelio
Fazio). In 1966 and 1967 two more courses were organized.
The original group used to meet regularly every month with Gaetano
Benedetti of Basel since 1963, with Johannes Cremerius of Friburg in Br. since
1966, and with Marcelle Spira of Geneva from 1965 to 1967; an integrative
approach, then, characterized the group of Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane since
the beginning (see also the 1984 interview to Pier
Francesco Galli titled "Psychoanalysis
and psychoanalytic institution in Italy").
In 1963 in Milan, first in Via Lanzone 7, and later in the
"historical" headquarters of Piazza S. Ambrogio 2, a weekly continuous seminar
started, which was very much attended and out of which many groups and
ideas that will characterize the history of psychotherapy in Italy originated (for
example, the first 13 issues of the journal Fogli di Informazione, that has
been for many years at the center of the network of experimentations of
alternative psychiatric practices of the Italian "anti-psychiatry"
movement and of the group of Psichiatria Democratica, were printed in
this office).
In 1966 and 1967 the training courses became residential, respectively in Arenzano
(Genoa) and Vietri sul Mare (Salerno).
In 1971 the weekly Milan seminar was terminated and
substituted by small seminars, of about 15 participants each, in Milan, Genoa, and Bologna.
Four times a year there was a plenary meeting in every one of these cities plus
a meeting in Zurich together with the "Zurich Psychoanalytic Seminar"
(Psychoanalytisches
Seminar Zürich [PSZ]).
Il
project of the journal, which remains the same today, was presented in the following
editorial of issue
no.
1/1967:
«The
interdisciplinary approach, in the recent history of social sciences or of
the humanities, is a moment of reflection beyond immediate functional
schemas. The present historical period follows a
phase of technicality in which empirical research and methodological sophistication offered
an alibis to escape fundamental problems. The credo in objectivity,
residue of the positive world, is represented by technicians to whom
interdisciplinary approach, far from being an anthropological convergence,
is a sterile confrontation among methods. The search for a common language
becomes a futile exercise in which semantic barriers mark the limits of
false epistemological conscience. The ideology of the method grants a sort
of pseudo-knowledge, while gradually abandoning the premises of an
anthropology. Technicians of psychological cure, arithmeticians of social
knowledge, synthesis of operational outcomes whose price is the reduction to
an heuristic dimension of thought. Collectors of data gather in the research
movement, and at times technique, accused of being responsible of splitting
the human being, leaves room to an undifferentiated need of synthesis where
irrationality emerges as ideology of a praxis in which experience is merely stereotyped
repetition. We see a rejection to draw consequences out of knowledge data, a
world of technicians of the interdisciplinary approach as an institutional
meeting place, a refusal to think publicly, the private thought deadened in the data and in objectivity as mythical criteria of scientific
citizenship. We see an official, bureaucratic interdisciplinary approach,
characterized by perfect scientific careers at the service of conservationism.
The technicians unfortunately have too often given up their social presence.
The
psychotherapist, as a technician of social sciences, faces the alternatives
of being the instrument of society in order to treat deviant behavior,
or of using the consequences of the knowledge of his or her own research
method in order to provoke social change. A newly acquired awareness of the
psychotherapists as a professional group goes beyond the individual or
private experience as social or political figures. Psychotherapeutic
knowledge requires active participation to the reality that has to be built,
and does not leave room to "technicisms".
The
attempt to know each other and, at one hand, to bring within our profession,
presented with its concrete and characterizing aspects, themes and problems
of neighboring disciplines, and, to the other, to offer to the latter the contributions
of psychotherapeutic research, represent the aim of this journal. The premises of an anthropological discourse, within the
limits of our history and of our culture, is first of all, in this phase, a
problem of reciprocal knowledge. It is a commitment to a research in which
our technical loneliness can find an answer in the technical loneliness of
others. Insecurity, daily feeling of the psychotherapist at work, is taken
responsibly as an interplay between conflicting poles within the social
sciences, toward a clarity beyond the false empirical knowledge» (p. 1 of issue
no. 1/1967 of Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane; reprinted on p. 298
of issue no. 3/2006).
In
line with these premises, the journal Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane
publishes psychoanalytic papers side by side with papers of other disciplines
such as psychology, psychiatry, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, science of
education, and history. Exponents of these disciplines are represented in the
editorial and advisory boards of the journal since its foundation. At the end of
the 1980s the characterization of "service" to the Italian mental
health community was better implemented with a series of columns such as
"Classics of psychoanalytic research" (30 classic psychoanalytic
papers written between 1927 and 1965, and published from 1989 to 1999), "Clinical cases" (since 1987,
with many complete clinical cases published and discussed), "Book
reviews"
(since 1984), "Traces. Mummia ridens" (since 2004, with a
reconstruction of the history of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Italy from theoretical and sociological points of view), and,
finally, "Journals" (since 1984), with the contents
and the review of selected articles of the main national and international
journals of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis (TheInternational Journal of
Psychoanalysis, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association,
Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Contemporary Psychoanalysis,
Revue
Française de Psychanalise, Psyche, etc.).
The
association
The association "Cooperativa Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane a r.l.",
founded in 1978, continues under this name the activities of the Milan Group for the
Advancement of Psychotherapy and has the followings goals explicitly stated in
the by-laws (February 27, 1978): the publication of journals and books
specialized in psychology, psychoanalytic technique, and social sciences (the
humanities); continuing education and professional update of its members; the organization
of professional meetings on psychology, psychoanalysis, and
social sciences. The training activities are economically supported only by the
participants' registration fees.
The association officers are the following: President: Alberto
Merini, M.D.; Board: Pier Francesco Galli, M.D., Alberto Merini, M.D., Eugenia Omodei
Zorini, M.D.; Trustees: Marianna Bolko, M.D., Adriana Grotta, Ph.D.,
Giancarlo Rigon, M.D., Ferruccio Tiberi, M.D. (substitute), Eustachio Loperfido,
M.D. (substitute); Program Committee of the "International Seminars":
Alberto Merini, M.D., Marianna Bolko,M.D.,
Dante Comelli, M.D., Pietro Pascarelli, M.D., Euro Pozzi,
M.D., Gabriele
Vezzani, M.D., Ulrich Wienand, M.D. (all members of
the Program Committee have, beside their own personal and specific training,
more than 25 years of professional experience, often also in the public sector).
Publications
The quarterly journal Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane
(ISSN 0394-2864; Dewey Decimal Classification [DDC] 616; electronic ISSN 1972-5043)
is totally independent from the association. It is edited jointly by Pier Francesco Galli,
M.D., Marianna Bolko, M.D., and Paolo Migone, M.D. (editor-in-chief), it was
founded in 1967 by Pier Francesco Galli, M.D., and
since issue
no. 1/1982 it is published by FrancoAngeli of
Milan. It is by far one of the most widely circulated journals in the field of psychology, psychiatry
and psychoanalysis in Italy, with more than 1,300 readers and 40 years of history.
This journal financially is entirely self-supported, and by choice it does not
accept economical support by any public or private institution, and never
publishes advertisements of any sort. It is financed only by subscribers and
with issues sold in bookstores. In the past decades some important book series have been edited by Pier Francesco
Galli:
The journal Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane has always been part of
the independent international psychoanalytic network Platform International, and
operates in partnership with the "Zurich Psychoanalytic Seminar"
(PSZ) and with its Journal für Psychoanalyse,
with the Sigmund Freud Institut
of Frankfurt a.M., with the Istituzione
"Gianfranco Minguzzi" of Bologna, with the Centro Universitario di
Psichiatria Multietnica "Georges Devereux" of Bologna, and it is a
member of the International Council of Editors of Psychoanalytic Journals
(ICEPJ). The journal Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane is indexed in PsycINFO
(Psychological Abstracts), Psychoanalytic Abstracts, EMBASE (Excerpta
Medica), EMCare, Scopus, Sociological Abstracts, Social Services
Abstracts, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, PAIS
International, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, Human Resources
Abstracts, IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences), PASCAL (INstitut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique [INIST] du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique [CNRS]), The Philosopher's
Index, Google Scholar, Casalini-EIO (Editoria Italiana Online), etc.
In the past years the at "International Seminars"
participated authors such as Johannes
Cremerius, Merton
Gill, Peter Wolff, Lawrence Friedman, Fred Busch, Owen Renik, Robert Langs, Berthold
Rothschild, Tobie Nathan, Helmut Thomä, Elizabeth Bott Spillius, Joyce
McDougall, John Gedo, Peter Fonagy, Morris Eagle, Robert Holt, Robert
Wallerstein, Frank Sulloway, etc. Many of their presentations appeared in the journal Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane
and only later in foreign journals or books. Themes such as Self Psychology and
narcissism were introduced by Psicoterapia
e Scienze Umane 20 years before their diffusion in the wider international
literature.
Training activities
A characterizing aspect has always been the implementation
of training projects for mental health professionals of the national health
system. Members of the original group of Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane,
together with colleagues that have been trained in full or in part within the
group, have always been - and still are today - involved in training
projects for the public sector, both formally (with regular contracts) and informally as private trainers
and supervisors. This informal training network, which is sociologically well recognizable,
implies educational services for the public sector which reaches a few thousands
trainees nationwide.
The first training project in a psychiatric city hospital
was in Varese from 1962 to 1964. In the psychiatric hospital of the city of
Sondrio in 1967 the first project of "teaching hospital" in Italy was
implemented (the structure of this project included 25 hours of teaching a week,
for 40 weeks a year, to psychiatric residents of the psychiatric hospital of
Sondrio).
Between 1989 and 1996 Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane
in Pordenone organized the School of Psychotherapy and Rehabilitation of
the Study and Research Center on Mental Health of the "Regione Friuli Venezia
Giulia" (Participating Institution in the World Health Organization [WHO]
Collaboration Centre for
Research and Training in Mental Health Italy).
In summary, the intervention in the national mental health
system and the integration between the public and the private sectors have always been the main
characterizing aspects of Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane, together with a
method of training and continuing education programs based on work with
small groups.
The "International Seminars"
Since 1982, Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane
organizes in Bologna a course of continuing education called, for historical reasons,
"International Seminars". This course is based on monthly meetings (on
the third Saturday of each month) and
is for M.D.s and Ph.D.s who are already trained. The number of participants is
limited to 52 in order to guarantee an active training method. A new
participant can be accepted only when someone leaves the program.
Italian and foreign experts of psychoanalysis and related
fields are selected and invited by the Program Committee of the "International
Seminars". The goal of the "International Seminars" is to provide
continuing education on themes of psychoanalytic theory, theory of technique,
and social sciences. Each monthly meeting has the following schedule:
one month before the meeting a bibliography and the abstract of the paper is pre-distributed
some weeks before the meeting the full text of his/her paper is
pre-distributed by E-Mail to all participants
3.00 p.m.-4.15 p.m.: paper presentation
4.15 p.m.-5.45 p.m.: discussion in small groups on the paper presented
6.00 p.m.-6.30 p.m.: plenary discussion with the
expert, led by a chairman, on the output of the small groups
6.30 p.m.-8.00 p.m.: discussion of a clinical case presented by the
invited speaker
8.00 p.m.: the participants complete the multiple-choice questions sheets
for the Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits
the next morning after each meeting the Program Committee meets in order to evaluate the overall methodology and
fulfillment of the educational goals of the meeting, and in order to plan
possible future meetings to better clarify single issues that may need
to be further discussed
few months after the meeting, the paper presented may be published in
the journal
Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane, where it can become the target of further
discussions
once a year an anonymous evaluation form is distributed to the
participants
The training project of
Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane includes: a) diachronic aspects: themes
that are dealt in the course of several years, such as gender identity,
adolescence psychopathology, transcultural psychiatry and psychotherapy, treatment
of severe psychopathology, theory of technique, theoretical and clinical
confrontation with therapists of different approaches, etc. (this part is
dealt with by the Program Committee during the monthly meetings); b)
aspects that are specific to each meeting: choice of papers to be
pre-distributed, themes that need to be emphasized in the papers and to be
discussed within the small groups, clinical cases to be presented, use of
audiovisual instrumentation, possible interventions by
discussant within or without the group, etc. (this part is dealt
with by the a member of the Program Committee, who becomes
responsible for the training of a given meeting). In each meeting the Program
Committee appoints a chairman who is in charge of opening and closing
the meeting, of introducing the speaker and guests, of inviting the discussants
to intervene, of monitoring the time schedule of presentations and coffee
breaks, etc. Participants record their attendance by signing in and
out in front of the meeting secretariat. The
certificate of attendance is given to the participants only if they satisfy
CME requirements of attendance.
Regarding the philosophy of this training program and its evaluation, the
goal of this training in psychoanalytic therapy is only in small part that
of increasing knowledge, but mostly that of improving professional
performance, including relational skills. Such an improvement is not evident
in the short run and using traditional tests based on cognitive aspects. At
the moment, the methods for evaluating training in psychoanalytic
psychotherapy are not cost-effective. Furthermore, it is quite difficult to
ascertain, at the end of one year, which part of the improvement of
performance is due to the course, or to other experiences outside this
course (such as personal
training or supervisions). The
"International Seminars" are a continuing education experience that
begun about 40 years ago and that continues to change and improve.
The experts that have been invited since 1984, in
chronological order, are the following:
1984-85: Marianna Bolko & Alberto Merini (Bologna), Silvano
Massa (Genoa), Pier Francesco Galli (Bologna), Sergio Dazzi (Parma), Paolo
Migone (Parma) & Milly Fumagalli (Milan), Vittorio Melega &
Giovanni Neri (Bologna), Marianna Bolko & Alberto Merini (Bologna),
Giancarlo Rigon (Bologna) & Franco Ricci (Pesaro)
1985-86: Marianna Bolko & Alberto Merini (Bologna), Pier
Francesco Galli (Bologna) & Paolo Migone (Parma), Marianna Bolko &
Alberto Merini (Bologna)
April 4, 1987: One-day seminar in Milan (Palazzo delle Stelline) on three themes: "The
therapeutic setting" (discussion groups leaders: Marianna Bolko, Alberta
Emiliani, Adriana Grotta,
Pierrette Lavanchy, Antonella Mancini, Alberto Merini, Eugenia Omodei Zorini, Franco Ricci,
Giancarlo Rigon), "Psychotherapies
in the public sector" (discussion groups leaders: Alessandro Ancona, Piergiorgio
Battaggia,
Teresa Corsi Piacentini, Emanuele Gualandri, Eustachio Loperfido, Vittorio
Melega, Giovanni Neri,
Mariangela Pierantozzi, Ferruccio Tiberi),
"Diagnosis and psychotherapy" (discussion groups leaders: Pier Maria
Furlan,
Pier Francesco Galli, Nella Guidi, Vladimir Jancovic, Giampaolo Lai, Silvano
Massa,
Paolo Migone, Berthold Rothschild, Katharina Schweizer, Judith Valk, Thomas Von
Salis,
Billa Zanuso)
1987-88: Fiorella Giusberti & Andrea Melella (Bologna), Vittorio
Melega & Giovanni Neri (Bologna), Paolo Migone (Parma), Adriana Grotta
(Bologna), Teresa Corsi Piacentini (Genoa), Marianna Bolko & Alberto
Merini (Bologna), Giuliana Gagliani & Mariangela Pierantozzi (Bologna)
June 3-4, 1988: Meeting of PlatformInternational in Milan
(Palazzo delle Stelline)
"Are idiots still useful?". Papers by Pier
Francesco Galli (Bologna), Emilio
Modena (Zürich), Berthold Rothschild (Zürich), Paul Parin (Zürich),
Goldy Parin-Matthey (Zürich), Johannes Cremerius (Friburg
i.Br.),
Armando Bauleo (Buenos Aires/Venezia), Gregório Baremblitt (Rio de
Janeiro), Paul Passett (Zürich), Sjef Teuns (Amsterdam), C. Tholen (Kassel),
A. Borst (Paris), Arno von Blarer (Zürich), Marie-Claire Boons (Paris),
Giacomo Contri (Milan), Detlef Michaelis (Frankfurt), Roberto Dionigi (Bologna),
Michele Ranchetti
(Florence), Tito Perlini (Milan), Robert D. Hinshelwood (London), Johannes Reichmayr (Vienna),
J.L. Pedreir (Gijon), H. Stephan (Hamburg).
Discussion group leaders: A. Borst, M. Monville, C. Landry, Sjef Teuns, Hans-Peter
Meyer, Barbara Andriello, Luciano Rispoli, Anotnio Marigliano, Liliana Stea,
Orlando Todarello, Ciro
Elia, Anna Maria Fabbrichesi, Marianna Bolko, Alberto Merini, A. Ballabio, Maria
D.Contri
1988-89: Audrey Gavshon (London), Pedro Grosz (Zürich), Thomas von Salis
(Zürich), Berthold Rothschild (Zürich, Paul Parin
(Zürich), Emilio Modena (Zürich), Judith Valk (Zürich), Morris N. Eagle (Toronto)
1989-90:
Robert R. Holt (New York), Pedro Grosz (Zürich). Marco Bacciagaluppi (Milan), Audrey Gavshon (London), Anton Obholzer
(London), John E. Gedo (Chicago), Anne Hurry (London), Judith Valk (Zürich), Emilio Modena
(Zürich)
1991: George S. Moran (London), Marianna Bolko & Alberto Merini (Bologna),
Pier Franceso Galli (Bologna), Marco Conci (Trento), Ferruccio Giacanelli
(Bologna), Anton Obholzer (London), Adam Limentani (London), Berthold Rothschild
(Zürich), Steven Mitchell (New York), Peter Fonagy (London), Rose Edgcumbe
(London), Paul Parin (Zürich)
June 24-27, 1991: Week long seminar in Bologna with Johannes
Cremerius (Friburg i.Br.), Morris N. Eagle (New York), Lawrence Friedman
(New York), Pier Francesco Galli (Bologna), Merton
M. Gill (Chicago), Robert R. Holt (New York), Tito Perlini (Venice), Michele
Ranchetti (Florence), Frank J. Sulloway (Boston),
Helmut Thomä (Ulm), Peter H. Wolff (Boston) et al.
June 25-26, 1993: Two-days workshop in Milan (Palazzo delle
Stelline) with Lawrence
Friedman and Leonard Groopman (New York)
1994: Tito Perlini (Venice), John E. Gedo (Chicago), Joice
McDougall (Paris), Jay Greenberg (New York), Robert R. Holt (New York), Giorgio Sassanelli
(Rome),
Berthold Rothschild (Zürich)
1996: Maurizio Peciccia (Perugia), Juan Manzano (Geneva),
Tobie Nathan (Paris), Fritz A. Henn (Mannheim), Salomon Resnik (Paris), Fernanda Pedrina
(Zürich),
Pier Franceso Galli (Bologna)
1997: Pedro Grosz (Zürich), Armando Bauleo (Buenos Aires/Venice), Berthold
Rothschild (Zürich), Salvatore Inglese (Catanzaro), Silvia Amati Sas (Geneva-Trieste), Roberto Speziale-Bagliacca
(Genoa), Furio Ravera (Milan)
1998: Adele Nunziante Cesaro (Naples), Domenico Di Ceglie (London), Massimo Cuzzolaro
(Rome), Johannes
Reichmayr (Vienna), Giorgio Sassanelli (Rome), Luciano Rispoli (Naples), Giovanni Liotti
(Rome)
1999: Tito Perlini (Venice), Johannes Cremerius (Friburg i.B.), Paul Parin
(Zürich), Antonino Ferro (Pavia), Fred Busch (Ann Arbor), Wolfgang Mertens (Munich),
Irene Bernardini (Milan). Groups leaders: Fabiano Bassi, Marianna Bolko, Pier
Francesco Galli, Eustachio Loperfido, Alberto Merini, Eugenia Omodei Zorini,
Ferruccio Tiberi
2000: Owen Renik (San
Francisco), Michele Ranchetti (Florence), Ethel Spector Person (New York), Morris
N. Eagle (New York), Stavros Mentzos (Frankfurt a.M.), Ferruccio Osimo (Milan), Mario Lavagetto
(Parma)
2001: Philippe Jeammet (Paris), Salvatore Inglese (Catanzaro), Michael Stone (New York), Jack Drescher
(New York), Carlo Bonomi (Florence),
Lawrence Friedman (New York), Pedro
Grosz (Zürich)
2002: Sergio Moravia (Florence), Emilio Modena (Zürich), Umberto
Ponziani (Bologna), Robert S. Wallerstein (San Francisco), Lilli Gast (Berlin),
Owen Renik (San Francisco), Giuseppe Varchetta (Milan)
2003: Tito Perlini (Venice),
Maurizio Balsamo (Rome), Omar Ndoye (Dakar), Werner Bohleber (Frankfurt a.M.),
Jacques Hochmann (Lion), Theodore Jacobs (New York), Giampaolo Lai (Milan)
May 31, 2003: 40th Anniversary of Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane in Bologna:
"The reasons of our history. 1962-2003: Forty years of psychoanalysis
and related fields": One-day seminar with Pier Francesco Galli, Giancarlo
Rigon, Pietro Pascarelli,
Ulrich Wienand, Eustachio Loperfido, Dante Comelli, Alberto Merini, Marianna
Bolko, and Giorgio Meneguz
2004: Stavros Mentzos (Frankfurt a.M.), Jacques André (Paris), Mario Lavagetto (Parma), Alberto Llasa
(Bilbao), Morris N. Eagle
(New York), Francesco Napolitano (Caserta), Bernard Golse
(Paris)
January 15, 2005: One-day seminar in Bologna on "Psychiatry,
psychoanalysis: The multicultural challenge", with Tullio Seppilli,
Alberto Merini, Eustachio Loperfido, Ferruccio Giacanelli, Alain Goussot,
Pietro Pascarelli, Tito Perlini, Giancarlo Rigon
2005: Valeria Babini (Bologna), Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber (Frankfurt
a.M.), Maurizio Balsamo (Rome), Catherine Chabert (Paris), Morris N. Eagle
(Los Angeles), Franco De Masi (Milan), Roberto Beneduce (Turin),
Roland Gori (Marseille)
2007: January 20, Giovanni De Renzis (Naples), "What
remains of psychoanalysis",
Discussant Pier Francesco Galli; March 17, Massimo Recalcati (Milan),
"Anorexia and anxiety"; April 21, Adelina Talamonti (Rome),
"The exorcist and the psychaitrist. An anthropological perspective on
demoniac possession and exorcism"; May 19, Manfred Pohlen (Marburg), "The
influencing power of the analyst and the truth of his method"
[cancelled and moved to March 15, 2008, with a different title]; May 19, Howard Shevrin (Ann Arbor), "Theory of drive in
the light of recent neuroscience findings and theories (The need for a basic science of psychoanalysis)";
October 20, Luigi Zoja (Milan), "The function of the father in current
times and in history"; November 17, Maurice Corcos (Paris), "Affect
control in borderline functioning"; December 15, Olga Pozzi (Naples), "Reflections
on the evolution of the concept of transference in different theoretical
models"
2008: February 16, Ferdinando Bersani (Bologna),
"Reproducibility in science: Myth or reality?"; March 15, Manfred
Pohlen (Marburg) [moved from May 19, 2007], "Therapeutic factors in psychoanalysis:
A process between scientific objectivity and suggestion"; April 19, Lawrence Friedman
(New York), "A renaissance for Freud's Papers on Technique"; May 17, Jacques André
(Paris), "Waiting for events"; June 21, Marco
Chiesa (London), "An outpatient treatment program for borderline
patients: Clinical model and outcome"; September 20, Heinrich Deserno (Frankfurt
a.M.), "Love and depression"; November 15,
Maurizio Balsamo (Rome), "The genealogic's genealogies"
2009: January 17, David Le Breton (Strasbourg), "Adolescence,
risky behaviors, and personal rites: an anthropological perspective"; February21, Ciro Elia (Bergamo), "State of the
art of individual psychotherapy of psychoses"; March 21, Sergio Piro (Naples),
"State of the art of psychiatry in Italy today" (since Sergio Piro
died suddenly on Jan. 7, 2009, this seminar has been held by Valeria P. Babini,
Ph.D., Pietro Pascarelli, M.D., Federico Perozziello, M.D., and Pietro
Pellegrini, M.D.); May 16, Fausto Petrella (Pavia),
"On psychoanalytic process"; June 20, Alberto Luchetti (Rome),
"The return of the repressed"; October 17, Roberto Speziale-Bagliacca
(Genoa), "Real object and splitting"; November 21, Francesco Barale
(Pavia), "Autism, the full weakness"
Novembre 28, 2009: Jerome C. Wakefield (New York), "Freud and philosophy of mind"
2010: January 16, Tito Perlini (Trieste), "Civilization
and Its Discontents eight years after. Observations of Freud's paper"; February 20, Pedro Grosz (Zürich), "The
problem of mutual dependency in the succession of generations"; March 20, Silvio Merciai (Turin), "Neuroscience
and psychoanalysis: To do what we can..."; April 17, Luigi Antonello Armando (Rome), "From the New Athens to Thebes: Trauma in Freud and according to Freud"; October 16, Jack P. Drescher (New York), "A
history of the relationship between psychoanalysis and homosexuality"; November 20, Francesco Napolitano (Caserta), "Materials for a Freudian
philosophy of aphasia"; December 18, George J. Makari (New York), "Revolution in mind: The creation of psychoanalysis"
2011: January 15, Franco Maiullari (Locarno), "Passions between myth and psychoanalysis"; February 19, Ferdinando Amigoni
(Bologna), "'Learning to survive?': Life, instructions for use
according to Perec"; March 19, Ivan Ulric (Split), "The phenomenon
of shame in ex-prisoners of war"; April 16,
Maurizio Balsamo (Rome), "The problem of free association in
contemporary analytic practice"; May 21, Pier Luigi Rossi (Rome), (title
to be defined); October 15, Ettore Perrella (Padua), "Training analysis:
Some clinical effects of globalization";
December 17, Heinrich Deserno (Frankfurt a.M.), "Unconscious intergenerational transmission of conflicts and traumata"
Other training activities organized by Psicoterapia
e Scienze Umane
Wednesday Meetings. Five meetings per
year have been held, on Wednesdays from 9.00 p.m. to 11.00 p.m., coordinated by Pier
Francesco
Galli and Alberto Merini. In these meetings some papers presented at the
"International Seminars" have been discussed more in depth, and
invited participants have been colleagues registered to the "International
Seminars" (maximum 15 participants).
[Study Group on "Psychoanalytic psychopathology of
adolescence".] Gruppo di studio "Psicopatologia psicoanalitica
dell'adolescenza". Questo gruppo di studio si è costituito verso
la fine degli anni 1980, attivato e condotto da Marianna Bolko e Eustachio Loperfido, a partire da un gruppo di approfondimento dei "Seminari
Internazionali". Nel giro di due anni nei partecipanti si è
concretizzata la motivazione ad organizzarsi autonomamente, con un proprio metodo di studio. Dal 2000 è
costituito come "sezione" di Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane.
L'oggetto del lavoro comune è l'adolescenza, da un punto di vista
teorico e clinico, nell'ottica psicoanalitica. Il gruppo ha stabilito un numero massimo di 15 partecipanti, le eventuali
nuove ammissioni sono vincolate all'uscita di uno o più dei suoi membri e
alla presentazione da parte di uno dei vecchi partecipanti. Si sancisce così
il criterio di ammissione su base fiduciaria; unico altro vincolo è che il
nuovo richiedente l'ammissione abbia modo di avere in carico, come lavoro
clinico, adolescenti. Il gruppo si riunisce con cadenza mensile per otto
volte l'anno e si dota di un piano di lavoro tra dicembre e gennaio. Il
piano di lavoro riguarda sia gli argomenti da approfondire che la
suddivisione in sottogruppi di lavoro. Ogni sottogruppo è formato, in base
a criteri logistici e di comune interesse, da circa 4 componenti ed ha il
compito di relazionare agli altri sull'argomento assegnatogli, fornendo
approfondimenti critici, casi clinici e bibliografia adeguata. Il gruppo si
è dato anche il compito di organizzare, sia per i suoi componenti sia per
tutti i colleghi interessati, degli incontri seminariali con ospiti italiani
e/o stranieri, ritenuti validi interlocutori sugli argomenti trattati.
Inoltre si è dotato di una mailing list per trasmettere più agevolmente il
materiale di studio tra i componenti. Le tematiche trattate sono: argomenti di psicopatologia (l'adolescente
borderline, depressione in adolescenza, autolesionismo, suicidio, violenza,
disturbi del comportamento), e argomenti di scienze umane (culture
adolescenziali, mass media e adolescenti, l'adolescenza oggi). Sono state organizzate tre conferenze pubbliche:
"I volti della
depressione nell'adolescente", relatore P. Jeammet; "1983-2000 - adolescenza a confronto tra cronaca e storia", relatore A. De Lillo; "Lo
psicodramma psicoanalitico individuale nel trattamento
dell'adolescente", relatore P. Jeammet.
[Continuing Education Course in Genoa.] Corso di Formazione permanente a Genova. E'
attivo dal 1994, coordinato da Pier Francesco Galli in collaborazione con Maria
Cellesi e Licia Filingeri, a numero chiuso con 20 partecipanti e 10 incontri
annui.
[Continuing Education Course in Bologna.] Corso di Formazione permanente a Bologna. E' coordinato
da Pier Francesco Galli, Giuliana Gagliani e Mariangela Pierantozzi, attivo dal 1992 con numero chiuso
di 16 partecipanti e 8 incontri annui.
[Continuing Education Course in Milan.] Corso di Formazione permanente a Milano. E' coordinato
da Nella Guidi, attivo dal 1992 con numero chiuso di 20 partecipanti e 8 incontri
annui.