PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORIES - 64026

At the end of the course the student will have acquired:

a) Adequate skills to recognize the affinities and differences between the Psychoanalytic approach

(Freudian, Jungian and Lacanian) and the Systemic-Relational approach through the acquisition of the main

concepts of these theories with the reading, commentary and discussion of texts and the observation of

videos

b) The ability to evaluate how these different theories have consequences on the therapeutic art and the

change in the condition of suffering of the subject

c) The ability to discuss and evaluate the theories of the symptom starting from the question relating to “the

work of the unconscious”

d) Competence to evaluate a new methodology for the administration of projective tests, with particular

reference to the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) and to transcultural systemic work in the use of this test

e) The ability to distinguish the concepts of Psychosis, Neurosis, Perversion, Borderline and Impulsive

Disorders according to different classifications: Psychoanalytic, Psychiatric, and Systemics

f) Reconstruct the history of psychiatric diagnostic categories starting from their changes over time and be

able to apply them to the conditions of social relationships crisis in contemporary times

g) Knowing how to make a family genogram, knowing the anthropologic naming of relations: filiation,

affinity, affiliation, and reflecting on the issue of the incest tabu as an anthropological condition and on the

origins of it

h) Knowing how to recognize the symptomatic expression through the observation of video-recorded

clinical sessions