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The paper takes cue from the current changes occurring in the two emerging sectors named "the green (ecology) and the blue (technology)" by the scholar Floridi on one hand, and from the increasing diffusion of remote communication instruments linked to growing manifestations of psychopathological events of social withdrawal, on the other. While the proliferation of research focused on the increasing incidence of psychological and somatic diseases derived from solitude and loneliness is there for all to see, at the same time it is undeniable that relationships are started and carried on using new media which accentuate both the sense of isolation and omnipotence. These considerations have led the authors to the necessity of contemplating "new analytical practices". They think that one of the most productive ways of dealing with the exponential growth of serious psychic discomfort - especially in young people - is implementing permanently, in their modus agendi, the complex paradigm of a clinical-empirical research approach on oneiric narration. It is known from Jung indeed, that dreams are not only "the essence of the psyche" but also represent essential instruments to comprehend and treat psychic suffering. Such an approach, first presented in IAAP Conference held in LUMSA in 2022 Narratives in Current Analytical Psychology. Studies about Mind-Body Relations will be described here in full detail. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is based on one idea and built around one clinical experience that helped me to broaden my comprehension of it. The idea, underlying the work of several authors is that when the analytic field is saturated with primitive and unintegrated mental contents, the analyst's somatic countertransference is a precious indicator of a deep, dissociated form of communication. The clinical experience concerns the difficult elaboration of a complex, multifaceted countertransference that took place during the early stages of the analysis of a sensitive patient who used to communicate in a very dissociated way and that I found hard to contain. This experience, closely descripted in the article, led me to formulate the clinical idea that the transference field may be made of distinct layers (psychoid, affective, verbal), and that each one of them may potentially convey dissociated, even contrasting bits of information. The corollary of this is that the analyst should be ready to accept contrasting sensations, feelings, and thoughts at the same time, as they might be the basic ingredients of a complex reverie. The analyst could find himself/herself in front of his/her own internal unelaborated multiplicity before a symbolic image may emerge to link between them the scattered pieces of the experience. Nevertheless, the heart of this paper is not about suggesting an idea, but in the sharing of a complex working through, which fostered the birth of a new, more human relational perspective: the capacity of being together in time, in a transitional space where there is neither total separation nor fusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper will focus on what the author calls the "green factor": the plant world's ability to foster profound healing and self-healing processes. This factor could be considered an element capable of promoting the analytic couple's journey in individuation through a "good enough rhythmical interaction". Such interaction is made possible by creating and maintaining, in therapy, a good level of empathy, mirroring and resonance that -- echoing natural cyclical rhythms primarily in nonverbal communication -- fosters the passage from dissociation to integration. This dynamic depends mainly on paying constant attention to the various kinds of images referring to nature (both inside and outside ourselves), i.e. attention on the "green world" that reconnects us with the wider ecosystem of which we human beings form a part. The author suggests that remembering and respecting the profound relationship between Mind and Earth or Psyche and Gaia means developing and cultivating an ecological attitude or eco-oriented epistemology, a theory according to which, individual wellbeing can be considered a fragment of the health of our planet, in the same way as the individual anima is a spark of anima mundi. This theory has been embraced by numerous scholars ranging from Jung to Bateson, Mancuso and Schore. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper argues that self-disclosure is intimately related to traumatic experience and the pressures on the analyst not to re-traumatize the patient or repeat traumatic dynamics. The paper gives a number of examples of such pressures and outlines the difficulties the analyst may experience in adopting an analytic attitude -- attempting to stay as closely as possible with what the patient brings. It suggests that self-disclosure may be used to try to disconfirm the patient's negative sense of themselves or the analyst, or to try to induce a positive sense of self or of the analyst which, whilst well-meaning, may be missing the point and may be prolonging the patient's distress. Examples are given of staying with the co-construction of the traumatic early relational dynamics and thus working through the traumatic complex; this attitude is compared and contrasted with some relational psychoanalytic attitudes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is intended to represent the synthesis of the clinical experience of Paolo Aite – psychiatrist and jungian psychologist, AIPA-IAAP member, cofounder of the Journal of Analytical Psychology and founder of LAI (Analytical Laboratory of Images), patient and student of Bernhard – with respect to the use of sand play in analysis through, above all, the use of images and the technique of painting. The text is built on an interview structure, in which the authors – Paolo Aite and Pina Galeazzi – define the stages of analytical research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper described in this article presents a summary of the XXII International Congress of IAAP, held August 28-September 2, 2022, in Buenos Aires, with the title: Analytical Psychology Open to the Changing World: Contemporary Perspectives on Clinical, Scientific, Social, Cultural and Environmental Issues. The Congress aimed to enhance the potential of analytical psychology as a tool to foster better human adaptation to the gradually changing world due to pandemics, wars, and climate events [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to represent the synthesis of the clinical experience of Dr. Antonino Lo Cascio, a pupil of Bernhardt and co-founder of AIPA, with respect to the analytical clinic technique. The text is built on an interview structure, in which the authors? Antonino Lo Cascio and Cristina Brunialti? define the stages of the analytic path. Unexplored aspects of the technique are deepened, according to a particular perspective that the Authors define autodafè. The reader will find food for thought between the reference to the technique and Lo Cascio's biographical narrative. The interviewer Cristina Brunialti, a pupil and friend of Lo Cascio, "has fun" with him to give shape to a conversational and spontaneous dialogue that deals with complex issues still debated in the psychoanalytic field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper synthetically refers about the international conference sponsored by IAAP and AIPA and hosted in Rome by the Free University Saint Mary Assumpted (LUMSA). The subject of the conference, "Narratives in Current Analytical Psychology. Studies about Mind-Body Relations" has caught many international colleagues' attention, so that a lot of international IAAP members have attended the conference online. Here the Author presents the contents of the major presentations exposed by senior Italian and International academics in the two mornings, as well as of the empirical studies presented in the afternoons by junior researchers of LUMSA and of "Sapienza" University of Rome. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper is the outcome of a series of video-calls between friends, colleagues, analysts. The authors felt the need to leave a mark of the feelings that in this emergency situation (i.e Covid-19) inhabits the analysis' rooms. Emotions of fear, sadness, anxiety, disbelief, confusion are weaved through exchange and dialogue; to the extent that places analyst and patient in a shared and intimate status, almost as if they wanted to fill the physical distance that is instead imposed. What are the analysts' responsibilities? Act as a container for the pervasive and nameless anxieties of the situation; allow patients to explore their internal world in a safe, warming and new context such as the online therapy. Moving around the three different points of view and the theoretical reference models, the article raises questions about online therapies in response to the current health emergency and about how this period could become an engine for reflection and change; finally, it opens up to a wider reflection on how Analytical Psychology can serve the community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper considers a "befallment" that occurred in the course of analysis at a time when the focus of work was too much at a conscious level, dissociated from the patient's embodied and visceral depths. A rigidly held attitude of focal attention is considered as potentially a defence against embodied experiences of overwhelm and vulnerability that may haunt shadowy realms which remain unlit by the narrow beam of conscious awareness. Rather as a dream drifts in from the unconscious, an enactment by the analyst brought neglected aspects of the transference and countertransference relationship into the room. Later, the patient's own dreaming mind offered images that suggested an underlying dynamic. These subtle communications, alongside the patient's attitude toward the analyst's lapse, are considered as factors in the achievement of greater embodied integration. The analyst's difficulty in arriving at a formulation of such events is discussed, along with the necessity of holding such "befallments" in mind over long periods of time before any explanation can be adumbrated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

By means of an analytic vignette the analyst is moving along the junctions of the therapeutical transformation process. Particular attention is given to the analyst's countertransference, especially to inner pictures rising within the process, body sensations and dreams in connection with weakly represented states of mind of the patient. In this paper the analyst tries to describe in which configurations the analytic couple's unconscious communication appears, how it can be reflected and inhowfar this has an impact on the analytic process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is inspired by a dream where, suddenly, the inhabitants find themselves in a world split in two. People are isolated from each other, kept separate by a natural catastrophe. As the author tries to point out, the increasing dissociative process in Western societies is related to the psychological opposition between natural and artificial, individual and cosmos, the self and the community. The division of the world, between "inner" and "outer" space, is the expression of an economic paradigm aimed at control, profit and competitive advantage. This view denies correspondence to the natural, spiritual, social and political dimensions in which humans are grounded. The individual and collective conscience, closed in its own sameness, more and more unable to include the variance of alterity and multiplicity, is turned to suffer split consciousness, the activation of unconscious emotions, fantasies: identity obsessions, paranoic fanatism, psychic infections. On the contrary, political action, social collaboration and creativity may be integrated in the psychological realm in a transformative relational dynamic, where the human, the living, the organic and inorganic component become nature and history, among contradictions and generations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a contribution to the elaboration of the collective mourning for the death of Gino Strada. Working out a mourning means distilling awareness and values from the life work of a man who was radically anti-war. Being against war is an active and constant action: it is choosing life every day. It means founding a new ethic of otherness, raising one's gaze focused only on oneself to turn it with interest and care towards the world with all the otherness that inhabit it. It is an adhesion to creation as the supreme good, in the awareness of belonging to a unitary reality where internal and external belong and have equal value. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a tentative understanding of the characteristics of the extreme traumas, elsewhere called "complex PTSD", that refugees and asylumseekers bring into therapy. It suggests that these kinds of traumas suffered during adulthood may involve a disintegration of the self and a loss of "psychic skin". This conceptualization is derived from the treatment of a refugee who survived multiple extreme traumas and with whom efforts were made in therapy to identify a complex methodology making use of supplementary, therapeutic tools in addition to individual psychotherapy. The case demonstrates how the disintegration of the self implies not only a deep somato-psychic dissociation but also a loss of intrapsychic and interpersonal space. In the treatment this was worked through via repetition of victim-aggressor dynamics at multiple levels. In the end, the therapeutic context was structured like a set of concentric layers, creating a "bandage" over the patient's wounds whilst his "psychic skin" was able to regenerate. The conditions triggered by extreme traumas in refugees challenge some of the cornerstones of individual psychoanalytic technique as well as the idea that individual therapy exists in an environmental vacuum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The female image of the mother in the Marian cult is defined by a group of men who are obliged by the rules of the clergy to be celibate. In relation to women, they can only ever be sons, never fathers, nor husbands. The different forms of the representation of Mary correspond to the critical moments in the mother-son relationship. In this paper the author deals with the Annunciation and the Death of the Virgin. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]