Questo libro descrive l'esperienza dell'ascolto elaborativo che centinaia di psicoanalisti hanno fatto in occasione dell'epidemia di Covid mettendo a punto un lavoro condiviso, delimitato nel tempo e specifico nello spazio, per affrontare il dolore mentale esplicito o agìto e le emozioni connesse con l'emergenza.
In queste situazioni estreme può accadere che il reale della malattia e della morte, i vissuti di persecuzione, la solitudine imposta dalla lontananza sociale sovrastino la capacità di pensare del singolo.
Questo volume mostra quanto il metodo psicoanalitico sia duttile e potente e la psicoanalisi, pur rimarcando la differenza con il processo che si svolge nel setting duale, si possa applicare in tutti i luoghi dove l'inconscio si manifesta.
Anna Maria Nicolò, neuropsichiatra infantile, past president della Società Psicoanalitica Italiana, membro del Clinical Observation Committee dell'International Psychoanalytical Association, è direttore della rivista Interazioni e membro del Committee del Forum dell'Adolescenza della Federazione Europea di Psicoanalisi.
The Dynamic Self in Psychoanalysisbuilds a bridge between two different but intertwined disciplines—psychoanalysis and neuroscience—by examining the Self and its dynamics at the psychological and neuronal level.
Rosa Spagnolo and Georg Northoff seek continuity in the relationship between psychoanalysis and neuroscience, emphasizing how both inform psychotherapy and psychoanalytic treatment and exploring the transformations of the Self that occur during this work. Each chapter presents clinical examples which demonstrate the evolution of the spatiotemporal and affective dimensions of the Self in a variety of psychopathologies. Spagnolo and Northoff analyze the possible use of new neuroscientific findings to improve clinical treatment in psychodynamic therapy and present a spatio-temporal approach that has significant implications for the practice of psychotherapy and for future research.
The Dynamic Self in Psychoanalysiswill be of great interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, neuroscientists and neuropsychiatrists.
Rosa Spagnolo, MD, is a child neuropsychiatrist, child and adolescent psychotherapist and psychoanalyst based in Italy. She is a member of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society (SPI), the IPA and the NPSA, and co-founder of the Italian Psychoanalytic Dialogues Association. She is the editor of Building Bridges: The Impact of Neuropsychoanalysis on Psychoanalytic Clinical Sessions (Routledge).
Georg Northoff,MD, PhD, FRCP, is a neuroscientist, philosopher, and psychiatrist. He is one of the world’s leading scientists in the field of brain and mind, having established neurophilosophy and, more recently, a novel approach to brain–mind relationship in terms of time–space dynamic. He is the author of Neuropsychoanalysis in Practice (2011) and Neurophilosophy and the Healthy Mind (2016), as well as a Professor at the University of Ottawa in Canada and holds multiple affiliations to universities in Europe and Asia.