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This article is the result of the sharing of study and reflection on the construction of identity between professionals involved in clinical psychological intervention. We explored some contemporary cultures, seen as references for the organization of identity, concerning femininity, masculinity, the couple, the family, birth, working on a comparison between emotions prescribed by the context in relation to these events and emotions experienced, as can be traced both in the social mandate and in clinical psychological intervention. Finding ourselves, in this last case, often faced with disorientation and conflicts of clients in feeling the distance between prescribed and experienced emotions, and our prejudices to be elaborated so as not to become, without awareness, uncritical guardians of the emotional symbolizations foreseen by the mandate. The article concludes with the proposal of 34 short cases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article aims to critically review the psychological intervention with minors, which has been growing rapidly in recent years. Two approaches are compared: the constructivist model and the stimulus-response model in their current declinations, with particular attention to one question: how much the individual-context relationship and the subjectivity of all the actors involved are considered in the interventions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order not to confuse the elderly state with the psychobiological development of the individual – growth, maturity, decadence – this paper aims to recover the difference between the prescribed emotions, seen as proper to the social role of the elderly, and the experience both of the people who have this role, and of those who have to do with them in various capacities (family members, carers). Psychoanalysis has kept away from old age: it would seem that advanced age contracts the space of the symbolic, that the importance of experiences is reduced, and one feels confronted with facts that "finally" acquire the weight of indisputable limits, compared to the which one feels helpless. However, the elderly continue to have an emotional life, whatever their biological and/or cognitive condition and the unconscious does not know time. Rather, it seems important to find ways to interrupt the enactment and think about the collusive set-up of desocialization, loss of identity and social power associated with the elderly state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We carried out a research study to explore the emotional experiences of a group of men who became parents of a child since no more than one year and a half. Within the factorial space, we found the culture of “new fathers” to be prevalent, regarding those who take on childcare functions, once exclusive of mothers. For them, birth is a profound revolution, which requires a reorganization of daily life. Wihin a broader social context, everything goes well, fathers know how to be fathers. These fathers still feel anchored to a tradition that guides them. Instead, the relationship with women represents a more complex issue, which is very present in their emotional experiences: as a partner, as a wife, as a mother. There is a different relationship with each of such representations of women. With a partner one shares everyday life, with a mother there is a relationship of conflict and possible love, with a mother it is very difficult to have a relationship. We compared the data of this research study with those of a similar study dealing with new mothers. Literature depicts fathers as in crisis and mothers as sure of their role. In our data, new mothers are the ones who are in crisis: they feel called to take on an all-encompassing role, that of mother, which puts them in relation with pressing conformist prescriptions, makes it uncertain to restore a daily life made up of work and friends, and makes them lose sight of married life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The presented research explores the expectations of a group of 40 Roman citizens about the psychologist. Open interviews were conducted and analyzed through the ETA (Emotional Text Analysis). In the 2000s, research on this subject continued to point out, alongside the one concerning a form of psychotherapy aimed at the individual, the presence of a demand, addressed to the psychologist, to intervene on the crisis in relationships and in systems of coexistence. The University, the Order of Psychologists, the professional community more generally seem not to have given an adequate response. While the perception of a crisis in the systems of coexistence seems to grow and the demand concerning it is confirmed in this research, at the same time the connection with the psychological profession loses strength. The fact remains that the demand persists, requiring intervention initiatives from a psychology capable of proposing them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Commonly, we encounter events, we read newspapers, essays, novels, we watch stories told in movies, we live emotional experiences within our relationships. Sometimes it happens to reread these experiences using other categories than those suggested by the event itself. We think that re-reading some experiences by using psychoanalytic categories will help to look at them in a new way. It also helps to use psychoanalytic categories in a new, less scholastic, more engaging way. In this work, we have “re-read” Rex Stout’s mystery books, starring investigator Nero Wolfe, by using the constitutive categories of the mind’s unconscious mode of being. We have found some invariants in the events that take place within the brownstone house where Wolfe permanently lives – only very rarely moving from the house itself – as opposed to the variability of the “mystery” events, variable part of the novel. We have proposed an analysis of these invariant and variable components, using the category: internal-external world of the mind and unconscious dynamics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]