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This article examines the importance of individual researcher development in psychotherapy science. It emphasizes the trend towards qualitative research that includes subjective aspects, in contrast to traditional approaches that emphasize objectivity by excluding researcher subjectivity. In various disciplines, the focus is increasingly on the subject and researcher subjectivity, albeit mostly from a social perspective. The article introduces a ‹microscope metaphor› to illustrate the limitations and openness of research projects. Ongoing research remains open to new insights through the interaction between researchers and the object of investigation, while completed research has limitations. This metaphor is linked to Radical Skepticism to simplify complex relationships while maintaining openness to the unknown. The investigation encompasses the structural and mediating aspects of imagination and the dynamics of connection and disconnection that characterize scientific activity. The article shows that thematic immersion yields different results than the application of life experience. Overall, the necessity of personal development through scientific activity and the central role of differentiation in interpersonal encounters is emphasized. Psychotherapy science as a separate discipline has debatable factors that are suitable for differentiation in the scientific landscape. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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On Sunday, November 13, 2022, the cultural section of the 'Il Corriere della Sera' devoted its main article to the first volume of Gianni Toniolo's latest opus, Storia della Banca d'Italia. Formazione ed evoluzione di una banca centrale, 1893–1943. The article characterized the book as an 'extraordinary economic autobiography of the country', and Toniolo as 'undoubtedly the greatest of Italian economic historians'. That very day Gianni Toniolo died in Rome at the age of eighty. To review Toniolo's work and life, even in the limited space these pages allow, is to go back over a period of Italian and international economic historiography, from the 1970s to the present day, to which Toniolo made vital and original contributions in a number of different ways. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Evidence that gene expression is regulated by epigenetic mutations, and that bioelectric fields control the body's morphogenesis, now compels the Life Sciences to make a momentous paradigm shift. In implementing the program inscribed in its sequences, DNA is NOT autonomous from external influences, as the dominant DNA-centric paradigm claims. Because life is coevolutionary interaction, and because the environment directs the orchestra of genes and the morphogenetic fields, safeguarding ecological balances becomes the cornerstone for building the future. Prevention ensures health, and not just human health. New, robust scientific knowledge is prompting a historic cultural shift in the way we feel and build the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the next thirty years 200 million human beings will be in constant, invisible movement around the planet. Pandemics, thirst, famines due to climate change, or oppression drive physical movement as well as the immaterial movement of ideas. There is a clash of opposing views in Europe: one focuses on the well-being of human beings as worthy of the right to individual and collective development; the other seeks to seize territory, which is a singular resource. A brief examination of the facts from 2022 leads to focusing on the democratic method that, with recognized institutions, makes up the indistinct movement following a course of cultural ecology from Heraclitus to the papal lectio. Pope Francis’ Encyclical Fratelli tutti (FT) creates the prospect of “open fraternity” (FT n. 1) to “recognize, appreciate, and love every person” (FT n. 1). With a surprise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Il Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR) rappresenta la più ragguardevole iniezione di risorse pubbliche nell’economia italiana dalla ricostruzione post-bellica. In questo articolo, presentiamo la genesi, la struttura e l’organizzazione del Piano evidenziando le scelte compiute dal policymaker in relazione all’attuazione del Piano stesso. L’obiettivo del lavoro è anche descrivere lo stato di avanzamento del PNRR, prestando particolare attenzione alla dimensione territoriale. Riflessioni critiche vengono proposte in relazione alla valutazione complessiva del ‘metodo PNRR’.

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The continuing dialogue within analytical psychology regarding the relationship to Jung's "collective unconscious" and biological research calls for a more sophisticated treatment of terminology that is consilient with modern neurogenetics. This essay explores how fully understanding the way genome and environment interact can help us parse out clinical material, enabling us to judge what expressions are repeats of early experiences vs. what are innately driven re-organizations of experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a discussion of issues concerning the concept of borderline personality disorder. We start from the constitution of the borderline structure, and move towards understanding particular aspects of borderline development, both on an individual and a collective level. This discussion is based on the examination of a progression in three different concentric circles: first, the context of child-parent relationships; second, interpersonal relationships established in the school environment; and, finally, an amplification of some aspects of contemporary culture that could be related to the current importance of this condition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author starts from an aspect of the Apostolic Constitution Veritatis gaudium: theology must be aimed at discovering a new progress, a new development. He considers the thought of Pope Francis in relation to these perspectives in order to understand if theology can actively collaborate to build a future adequate to the expectations of humanity. The fundamental contribution that theology can make to the public debate today on the future of mankind is certainly linked to the search for who man is and what can make his life happy, looking at precise themes that are also the sources of greatest concern for our time today: politics, economics, environment, geopolitics, peace. The study of these areas starting from theology, in particular social moral theology, can make an important contribution to the search for the new humanity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Questo scritto si propone di rileggere la teoria di Michele Minolli sullo sviluppo dell’Io-Soggetto all’interno del contesto scolastico. Prendendo spunto dalla lettera aperta di un’insegnante, scritta durante la riapertura delle scuole dopo il primo lungo lockdown, la riflessione entra nella quotidianità scolastica per provare a raccontare un approccio educativo definito ‘Pedagogia della Presenza’ che si pone come obiettivo lo sviluppo dell’Io-Soggetto e che mette a fuoco la necessità di ripensare la relazione educativa tra adulto e bambino, relazione in cui anche l’adulto è coinvolto in un processo trasformativo ed è chiamato ad assumersi la responsabilità della qualità della sua Presenza. Il percorso di formazione e ‘metavisione’ qui proposto diventa il luogo di massima esplicitazione del lavoro dell’insegnante su sé stesso.

In the current delicate health and socio-economic situation, we identify three fundamental areas - people, companies, and territories - from which to start for the definition of new development models based on dialogue and characterized by sustainable, equitable and inclusive processes. The present work aims to outline these components in the light of proposals coming from the two encyclical letters, trying to describe the existing interconnections among them and their contribution to generative resilience processes. The dynamics of dialogue have also been discussed, as well as the actions and policies at different territorial scales which can trigger shared development processes aimed at avoiding phenomena of implosion, social exclusion, territorial marginalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Planning ideas and practices were established and spread quickly in different situations in post-war Europe. No matter the definition of this obscure and manifold concept, the utopia of rationality inherent in the planning was founded on the conviction that the economy could be anticipated and guided according to collective interest and economic development. The cold war, therefore, was a time of a broad affirmation of planning which, disseminated internationally by a class of experts and technicians, was the key instrument agreed on, both scientifically and politically, to promote growth in backward areas and underdeveloped countries. The Italian case, having been thoroughly studied and discussed at a domestic level but not always sufficiently appraised in international studies, may be able to contribute a useful element to the overall picture, precisely due to the key role played by this country, and southern Europe, in the Atlantic and Mediterranean balances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Since the 1950s, Renzo Canestrari has been interested in issues concerning child development in its clinical aspects, with particular attention to the reforms of the Italian school system, especially the extension of compulsory schooling, the organizational consequences, and the need for adequate teachers' training. At the same time, the debate on the de-institutionalization of policies towards children with sensory, physical, and mental difficulties, kicked off research on alternative projects, in collaboration with the Local Authorities of the Emilia-Romagna Region. This attention to issues concerning development, education, and socialization in developmental age, with a look that connects individual aspects and social dynamics, has fueled empirical research by members of the Institute of Psychology, who have progressively expanded the fields of investigation. These are researches on: causal relationships between social interactions and cognitive development; characteristics of classroom communication and organizational and discursive routines in daily school life; representations that teachers and parents build and share about development, learning and education; socio-cognitive dynamics activated in students, during assessment tests held by Pisa international programs. These are dynamics ignored by the mainstream evaluation of the students' performances, but able to activate representations of school routines, through which students with low performances try to give meaning to the tests themselves. Similar dynamics are present in the representations of scientific disciplines, confirming the influence that the representations of the school system play in the construction of learning. Taken as a whole, in these lines of research it is possible to identify significant aspects that the legacy Renzo Canestrari has delivered in his work on development and education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With rising tourism interest in cultural heritage, destination management organisations, museums and other cultural institutions are seeking methods of unlocking the intangible cultural heritage of local residents and sharing that before it is lost. This is specific knowledge of the uses and practices of disappearing urban space, of plants and foodstuffs, of clothing and of work practices that were more in-tune with local, sustainable production. With the emergence of post-humanism, based on Deleuze's reading of Spinoza's ethics, this contribution outlines new methodologies in building the ethnopôle, and proposes a model for transmission that explores narrative knowing through literary travel writing for a ne w public. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The research activity was focused on the development of innovative urban and territorial planning techniques according to the Smart City paradigm, which recognizes in "Smart Urbanism”. The reasons why it is considered important to focus on Smart City stems from the fact that we are experiencing the so-called "Urban Age": a world in which cities already host today more than 3.3 million people, and that in the 2015 forecast, 60 of these will measure more than 8 million inhabitants. Cities are at a crossroads: by 2050 almost 70 percent of the world's population he will live in the cities. It is estimated that as many as 9,000 completely new urban centers will be necessary to accommodate this explosion. "Smart City" is a concept, an idea, "and conceptualizing means transforming this idea into something that can be understood and achieved. The strength of Smart Cities is to have integrated planning, one cooperation between different sectors, which are the fundamental elements to counteract the today's planning problems, such as the fragmentation of different parts.

The pastoral care of the civilly remarried Catholics (and the possibility of some of them receiving the Eucharist) and the morality of death penalty are two concrete issues on which a radical development in the magisterial teachings has taken place during the past few decades. However, the reception of the two developments with regard to these two issues to do with sexual ethics and social ethics, respectively, has been uneven and drastically inconsistent, so much so, there is a glaring undeniable incoherence. Having first discussed in detail the development of magisterial teachings regarding the above-mentioned two particular moral issues, this article highlights the two glaringly diverse receptions they have met with. The article concludes by highlighting the need for Catholic sexual ethics also to keep pace with the teachings of Vatican-II as Catholic social ethics has already been, especially in the post-Vatican-II era, so that there could eventually be a level ground in the reception of the respective developments in both sexual and social teachings of the Church. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Among the works of Cesa-Bianchi in the field of developmental and educational psychology, his contributions on the theme of atypical development, on the relationship between the development of thought and language in a child's growth and, finally, his latest reflections and indications on teacher and educator training are of particular interest. Mostly sensitive to the Piagetian and maturationist approach, Cesa-Bianchi did not fail to welcome in his theoretical reflection, as much as in scientific research, the stimuli that came from post-Piagetian culture since the first half of the twentieth century, driving his attention to the bio-psycho-social dimensions of human development. This work traces some key themes of the contribution of Cesa-Bianchi and his close collaborators highlighting the correlations with the national and international scientific scenario. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article presents the experience of Infant Observation as central for analytical training, because capable of developing the therapist's ability to "observe to see" and his contact with his inner child. It also predisposes him to listening to his own countertransference in the relationship with every other-than-himself within a relational game full of meanings. It emerges from the paper how the concept of training-transformation connotes the entire experience, transversally covering all the minds involved. The feeling of the observer, with his own internal setting, the observed child and the parental functions, involved within the observation field, are modified. The colleagues' group mind is also transformed and it takes in the observer's experience in order to reread it and to ascribe new and broader meanings to it. It is clear how observing and feeling the child in the context allows to become aware of his development path, by experiencing it live. The proximity to Valeria during her first year of life allowed the observer to witness the passage from the original experience of fragility and dependence from her mother, even with the contribution of her own acting, to the slow and progressive structuring of an Ego at the beginning, guaranteed by I-you relations hand in hand with the surfacing of archaic defences. During the Infant Observation the function of the child's skin and the progressive integration between soma, psyche and affectivity were central, even in the appearance of symptoms of discomfort within primary relationships. It was possible to witness Valeria's sensory and motor-praxic development, parallel to the verbal one and the maturation of cognitive abilities, of the imitative skill and of what appeared to be a rising theory of mind. Routines and social development have also appeared. The reflection on the construct of attachment was crucial throughout all the path. Taken as a whole, the article shows how the Infant Observation involves a constant inner work within the observer, a reading and rereading of the countless elements of the field of observation such as sensations, emotions, thoughts, doubts, fears looking for a plot and a sense. A cardinal aspect regards how to portray the "after" and the greetings, the possibility to part with the other keeping good thoughts, with confidence in him and his resources. A phase of mourning is necessary, being a source of profound teachings and internal metamorphosis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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As shown in our previous paper ('Regression I. Experimental approaches to regression', JAP, 65, 2, 345-65), the common mechanism of regression can be described as reversible dedifferentiation, which is understood as a relative increase of the proportion of low-differentiated (older) systems in actualized experience. Experimental data show that regression following disease (chronic tension headache) is followed by adaptation and an increase in system differentiation in that experience domain which contains systems responsible for that adaptation. The results of mathematical modelling support the idea that reversible dedifferentiation can be one of the mechanisms for increasing the effectiveness of adaptation through learning. Reversible dedifferentiation, which is phenomenologically described as regression, is a general mechanism for restructuring the organism-environment interactions in situations where behaviours that were effective in the past become ineffective. Reversible dedifferentiation has evolved as a component of adaptation when new behaviours are formed and large-scale modifications in the existing behaviours are required in the face of changes in the external and/or internal environment. Thus, the authors believe that this article provides evidence for Jung's view that regression is not only a 'return' to past forms of thinking, affects and behaviour, but that regressive processes provide a significant impetus for psychological growth and development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The concept of regression is considered with an emphasis on the differences between the positions of Freud and Jung regarding its significance. The paper discusses the results of experimental analyses of individual experience dynamics (from gene expression changes and impulse neuronal activity in animals to prosocial behaviour in healthy humans at different ages, and humans in chronic pain) in those situations where regression occurs: stress, disease, learning, highly emotional states and alcohol intoxication. Common mechanisms of regression in all these situations are proposed. The mechanisms of regression can be described as reversible dedifferentiation, which is understood as a relative increase of the representation of low-differentiated (older) systems in the actualized experience. In all of the cases of dedifferentiation mentioned above, the complexity of the systemic organization of behaviour significantly decreases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In our study we are examining the sustainable tourism utilization of Nádasdy Castle and its role in the tourism of the spa town of Sárvár, which is becoming more and more well-known in Western Hungary because of its outstanding historical-cultural value, as a sustainable development of one of Hungary's most important sights. In order to explore the future development possibilities of the castle, known as the symbol of the city, it is essential to analyze the development tendencies determining the tourism of Sárvár and the tourist area of the settlement. The fundamental goal of our research is to answer the question of what priorities can be developed in tourism of Sárvár in the future. Among the segments forming the tourist destination of the city, we are particularly concerned about those ones, which are in connection with history or culture, and which are interested in the increasing number of people with disabilities in the tourism market. Accessible tourism is an added value of sustainable development of cultural heritage. In our research we used both quantitative data analysis and qualitative methods, the existing secondary data were complemented with the primary data collection with the city's tourism space, attractions, local economy, and with the city's tourist target groups, including disabled people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In questo articolo si sostiene la tesi che la coscienza non possa essere compresa in termini di cognizione, dal momento che quest’ultima rappresenta la capacità di risolvere problemi e non è congruente con le categorie psicologiche della soggettività, dell’emozione e della libertà di scelta. D’altra parte l’autore rifugge anche da ogni teoria disincarnata della coscienza e propone, sulla scorta di Edelman, di considerare la coscienza come uno straordinario salto evolutivo che caratterizza la vita a partire dai vertebrati superiori in poi. Le parole, o meglio la coscienza narrativa, rappresentano per Lorenzini un veicolo che la coscienza può imboccare, dando luogo a conseguenze di ampia portata, ma non è con la grammatica e la sintassi che nasce la coscienza, bensì a livello primario, quando un individuo, segnato dall’esperienza personale, accede al valore metaforico delle percezioni. Da quel momento in poi ha luogo un nuovo tipo di evoluzione, o meglio l’evoluzione imbocca una nuova strada: quella dello sviluppo psicologico individuale, con tutte le conseguenze di cui siamo noi stessi espressione e testimoni allo stesso tempo.

The essay stems from an idea of plots and knots as a language allowing a secular hermeneutics of interactions among phenomena and events, to show how material cultures and anthropological/symbolical practices connect with a new theoretical space. The second idea is that a critique to the limits of modernity, with its belief in an unlimited technological progress, and postmodernity, stating the impossibility of establishing a difference between biological/cultural world and between natural/artificial, has to undertake a redefinition of the relationships among nature/living organisms/rational beings. Finally, the essay proposes a critique of the category of development, in particular related to the new digital technologies. It is essential to tackle how their spreading in each space and time has emptied the latter of their natural and anthropological differences, reducing them to a virtual unicum which has replaced the real and the forms of narration that cultures elaborated of it.

Oggi viviamo in una società complessa, dove il dinamismo sociale, etico e politico fanno emergere diverse difficoltà nella gestione delle dinamiche educative e relazionali. Il fenomeno della mondializzazione pone in essere diverse questioni relative alle dinamiche sociali, politiche, educative. Emerge prima di tutto la questione delle relazioni tra le persone e tra le istituzioni politiche, per cui gli esperti si chiedono se il processo di globalizzazione in atto sta realizzando veramente l’ideale cosmopolita sostenuto dagli intellettuali illuministi e da quelli del secondo dopoguerra. Nell’essere della mondializzazione torna con forza il tema della cittadinanza, dell’appartenenza e della partecipazione attiva, ci si chiede se realmente possiamo ritenerci a pieno titolo cittadini del mondo. Il cittadino “planetario” è tale in quanto membro di una comunità, non solo per i connotati morali ma anche per ciò che attiene ai diritti dell’essere umano; diritto al benessere, prima di tutto, e all’accesso a tutto ciò che gli consente di emanciparsi per vivere con dignità il suo essere al mondo. Oggi la mondializzazione evidenzia un’idea di cittadinanza e di persona tendenti ad assumere nuove forme all’interno dei mutevoli scenari del globo. Tutto sembra ruotare attorno un pensiero globale, è in quest’ambito che l’educazione è interpellata per raccogliere la sfida di formare cittadini di un nuovo mondo, secondo la prospettiva di una nuova mondializzazione che richiede pertanto una nuova Paideia (Salmeri 2015) per un’autentica cittadinanza planetaria.

This article aims to highlight the social consequences of the Abu Dhabi Document. The steps are: what role does the Church play in elaborating a new concept of development? Is fraternity the basis for building this global revolution? The practical consequences most awaited from these pages are in order to eliminate war as a means of regulating relations between states, to environmental conversion, to overcoming economic and political injustices, to the possibility that religions can contribute to the new culture of peace, putting the life of families back at the center, to the definitive condemnation of all terrorism and violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

These reflections on population, the economy and employment start from a peculiar point of view. The specific competence in the field and the singular sensibility to the social implication of socio-economic and political phenomena leads the author to highlight problematic areas, operational aspects, unavoidable expectations that should challenge especially institutions to implement strategies that can realistically mark a turning point in the current economic crisis that affects Italy. The case of Italy can also help us to reflect on similar problems in other countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since 1978, the poor population in China has shrunk by almost 500 million and the proportion of malnourished people, about 25% in 1992, has fallen to 10% in 2012-2014. However, not everyone benefited from this extraordinary economic performance. In saying “let some people get rich before the others”, the post-Mao leadership promoted a model of development that accepted both the disparities between different groups and the marginalization of the most vulnerable people. Among the latter, women are the majority because the programs implemented to fight poverty underestimated gender specificities.