Skip to main content

giuseppe leo

Université de Strasbourg, Psychiatry, Department Member

Followers

172

Following

78

Co-authors

34

Public Views

Psychiatrist, Mental Health Department of Brindisi (Italy), charged of "Early intervention in psychotic juvenile psychotic patients". Group Analyst (10-years group psychotherapy training with Salomon Resnik, 2005-2015). Publisher, founder of Frenis Zero psychoanalytic publishing house ( http://web.tiscali.it/cepsidi ).

less

Halyna Tsyhanenko

The University of Virginia

Mariana Velykodna

Ukraine Sigmund Freud University

Alejandro Tamez

Natalia Nalyvaiko

Columbia University

Saarland University

Ana Margareth Bassols

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Universidad de Chile

InterestsView All (14)

Uploads

Videos by giuseppe leo

ENACTMENT OF MUSICAL LISTENING IN PSYCHOANALYSIS by Giuseppe Leo

The conference by Giuseppe Leo was held on June 7, 2019, in Lecce (Italy) during a presentation ... more

3 views

Launch movie of the Second Edition of the book NEUROSCIENCE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS (Frenis Zero publishing house) edited by Giuseppe Leo, authored by David Mann, Georg Northoff, Allan N. Schore, Robert Stickgold, Bessel A. Van Der Kolk, Grigoris Vaslamatzis, Matthew P. Walker

Second Edition of the book NEUROSCIENCE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS (Frenis Zero publishing house) edited ... more Second Edition of the book NEUROSCIENCE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS (Frenis Zero publishing house) edited by Giuseppe Leo, authored by David Mann, Georg Northoff, Allan N. Schore, Robert Stickgold, Bessel A. Van Der Kolk, Grigoris Vaslamatzis, Matthew P. Walker , with a foreword by Jakub Przybyła (ISBN 978-88-97479-30-7, pagg.322, date of publication October 2021). On Lulu shop: https://www.lulu.com/en/en/shop/georg-northoff-and-bessel-a-van-der-kolk-and-allan-n-schore/neuroscience-and-psychoanalysis-2nd-edition/paperback/product-5nzw29.html?page=1&pageSize=4
PRESENTATION: The second edition of the book is foreworded by Jakub Przybyła who criticizes the idea of integrating neurobiology and psychotherapy based mainly on the study of psychoanalysis and neuropsychoanalysis. The author tackles philosophical and methodological problems which arise from attempts to carry out this integration. Parallel issues of psychoanalytic psychotherapy practice are also addressed.

3 views

AT THE BORDERS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS / AI CONFINI DELLA PSICOANALISI

Talk held by Giuseppe Leo (Nov 23, 2013) Conferenza tenuta da Giuseppe Leo (23 Novembre 2013)

3 views

Video presenting Giuseppe Leo's activities as a publisher during 2021.

Giuseppe Leo's activities as a publisher during 2021: - editor of the collective book NEUROSCIEN... more Giuseppe Leo's activities as a publisher during 2021:

- editor of the collective book NEUROSCIENCE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS (2nd edition, 2021)

- author of the fiction book MY IDEAS FELT LIKE OUTSIZE CLOTHES. A TALE FOR ETTY HILLESUM (2nd edition, 2021)

- author of the fiction book BLOWN LIVES. A TALE FOR SPIELREIN, GROSS, TAUSK AND THE OTHER LOSERS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS (2021)

- editor of the collective book INFANT RESEARCH AND PSYCHOANALYSIS (2nd edition, 2021)

- editor of the collective book PSYCHANALYSE, LIEUX DE MéMOIRE ET TRAUMATISMES COLLECTIFS (in French, 3rd edition, 2021)

New Frenis Zero book "ENACTMENT IN PSYCHOANALYSIS" edited by Giuseppe Leo, writings by Efrat Ginot, J. Greenberg, J. Safran, Giuseppe Riefolo et al

The book is dedicated to Jeremy Safran and Lewis Aron, whose recent loss drove the editors as we... more The book is dedicated to Jeremy Safran and Lewis Aron, whose recent loss drove the editors as well as the publisher to gather these contributions about enactment, a topic to whom Safran and Aron devoted many papers of theirs. As Safran wrote, though problematic and source of confusion among different psychoanalytic approaches, the epistemological status of psychoanalysis, related to its condition of ‘liminality’, is a meaningful source of vitality for the discipline. The book explores the subject of enactment in relation to boundaries in psychoanalysis, referring to a series of viewpoints that lead to many crucial areas.

15 views

Giuseppe Leo introduces Efrat Ginot's seminar "ENACTMENT AND EMPATHY" organized by Frenis Zero psychoanalytic publishing house (June 11, 2022). The webinar was part of the series "Mediterranean Id-entities".

Efrat Ginot's talk dealt with some issues taken from her last book "Our Anxious Selves. Neuropsyc... more

Giuseppe Leo's Introduction to Galit Atlas about Generative Enactment (webinar organized by Frenis Zero publishing house, Nov 26, 2022)

The webinar with Galit Atlas explored enactment and generative enactment in a relational perspect... more

1 views

Launch video of the Second edition of the book ROCK MUSIC AND PSYCHOANALYSIS edited by Giuseppe Leo, writings by Lewis Aron, Joseph LeDoux, Heather Ferguson et al.

The second edition of the book “Rock Music and Psychoanalysis” was published after the beginning ... more The second edition of the book “Rock Music and Psychoanalysis” was published after the beginning of Covid-19 pandemic. Pandemic, as writes Heather Ferguson, has brought the world to its knees, leaving massive unemployment, hunger, loss, and death in its wake, disproportionately affecting people of color and poor communities world-wide. The pandemic has perturbed our ways of going-on-being, forcing social inequities into the spotlight. In our consultation rooms, we wonder how our social and psychic worlds will be altered, irrevocably, creating opportunities for revitalization, reorder, or a return to the status quo. Pandemic has affected both psychoanalytic practice and rock music playing. Both psychoanalysts and musicians have to practise through telematic platforms. Some authors of this book are analysts (such as Lewis Aron, Heather Ferguson, Giuseppe Leo and John Shaw) who play rock or pop music. Not all the contributors are psychoanalysts: Joseph LeDoux is a neuroscientist.

4 views

REFUGEES, PSYCHOSOMATIC SUFFERING AND RESILIENCY by Giuseppe Leo (Barcelona, June 30, 2017)

Talk held by Giuseppe Leo at the 5th Conference of the European Association of Psychosomatic Med... more

1 views

Book "INFANT RESEARCH AND PSYCHOANALYSIS" Second edition. Edted by Giuseppe Leo

This second edition of the book was released after Jeremy Nahum's death and it is dedicated to th... more This second edition of the book was released after Jeremy Nahum's death and it is dedicated to the memory of three pioneers of the dialogue between psychoanalysis and infant research: Daniel Stern, Berry Brazelton and Jeremy Nahum. The book has the difficult task to cover an interdisciplinary area in which psychoanalysis has to deal with infant research. The development of infant research methodologies is illustrated in the present book by the contribution written by Beatrice Beebe, whose ‘journey’ leads us through the ‘creating’ of a discipline with its creators, her traveling companions, such as Daniel Stern, Frank Lachmann, Joseph Jaffe and many others. Trevarthen’s chapter is a discussion of his work with T. Berry Brazelton. Tronick’s contribution focuses on mother-infant dyad as well as on analyst-patient one, conceived as open dynamic systems, capable of meaning making, in which coherence is at best imperfect, and coordination alternates with mismatching.

12 views

Books by giuseppe leo

Book SUPERVISION AND PSYCHOANALYSIS

by giuseppe leo and Frenis Zero

This book was inspired by two specific events: on the one hand, the release in Italy of Nancy McW... more This book was inspired by two specific events: on the one hand, the release in Italy of Nancy McWilliams' book Psychoanalytic Supervision (McWilliams, 2021), and, on the other hand, a seminar on the same topic organised by Frenis Zero Publishing House in November 2023. Group supervision is the central theme of the chapter that Nancy McWilliams herself contributed to this book. A psychoanalytic supervision group can be formed in many different ways and in many different contexts: in his chapter, Giuseppe Riefolo focuses, in fact, on the discussion of cases in the multi-professional groups of a Mental Health Centre.
Sensitive issues are those related to the unconscious relations that are triggered in the supervision process, and in particular related to the transference-countertransference bind that arises between the patient/supervisee relationship and that of the latter with the supervisor. Of interest, in this book, are the statements made, from a perspective closer to the object relations model, by Donald Metzer in his 1999 interview, and also the comments made in his chapter by Anthony Bass (from a more relational standpoint) referring to his own experience as a supervisor as well as to the work of other authors like Berman (2014) and Sarnat (2014). Finally, a key research issue is the correlation that can be established between the improvement of patients in treatment and the fact that the therapist is undergoing supervision: this question is tackled by Schmolke and Hoffmann in a chapter of this book entitled "Mirror Processes in the Protected Space of Psychoanalytic Supervision".

Libro SUPERVISIONE E PSICOANALISI

SUPERVISIONE E PSICOANALISI, 2023

Quello della supervisione in gruppo è il tema centrale del capitolo che Nancy McWilliams ha volut... more Quello della supervisione in gruppo è il tema centrale del capitolo che Nancy McWilliams ha voluto donare per la costruzione di questo libro. Ma un gruppo di supervisione psicoanalitica si può formare in tanti modi diversi ed in tanti contesti diversi: come gruppo di analisti e/o psicoterapeuti di formazione analitica già avviata, o di gruppi di analisti e/o psicoterapeuti in formazione (training) all’interno di Istituti o Scuole di specializzazione in psicoterapia, o ancora di gruppi che si formano all’interno di corsi universitari che forniscono un supplemento formativo clinico ai normali corsi teorici sulla psicoterapia psicoanalitica. Ci sono poi le esperienze di supervisione istituzionale all’interno dei Servizi (psichiatrici o destinati ad altri tipi di utenza) o di Comunità: nel suo capitolo Giuseppe Riefolo si concentra proprio sulla discussione dei casi nei gruppi multiprofessionali di un Centro di Salute Mentale. Più delicate sono le questioni legate alle relazioni inconsce che si attivano nel processo di supervisione, ed in particolare relative all’intreccio transfero-controtransferale che si crea tra la relazione paziente-analista in supervisione e quella di quest’ultimo col supervisore. Kernberg parla di ‘processo parallelo’. Su tali intrecci transfero-controtransferali tra setting analitico e setting di supervisione, ossia sul confine tra terapia e supervisione, su cui ciascun supervisore ha il dovere di vigilare, in questo libro sono preziose le affermazioni di Donald Meltzer (in un’ottica più vicina al modello delle relazioni oggettuali) espresse in un’intervista da lui rilasciata nel 1999, nonché i richiami che fa Anthony Bass (in un’ottica più relazionale) nel suo capitolo alla propria esperienza di supervisore, nonché agli scritti di altri autori come Berman (2014) e Sarnat (2014). Infine, Schmolke e Hoffmann in un capitolo di questo libro illustrano un programma di ricerca, sulla base di questionari somministrati sia a terapeuti in formazione che ad analisti già formati, tesi ad un’auto- valutazione su quanto la supervisione da loro seguita possa avere avuto dei risvolti terapeutici nella loro relazione coi rispettivi pazienti.

Book WHY WAR IN UKRAINE AND IN EUROPE? PSYCHOANALYSIS, TRAUMA AND RESILIENCY

On the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine this book wants to cover an interdisc... more On the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine this book wants to cover an interdisciplinary investigation on the motivational background of the current war in Ukraine as well as on the mental health strategies aiming to promote resiliency in such a massive, traumatic context. After the preface written by the editor, Giuseppe Leo, Vamik Volkan’s chapter examines how can occur when the personality organization of a political leader becomes intertwined with societal and political processes and shared historical images. It is not suggested that “real-world” issues and secondary process calculations related to horrible events are not important and should be discarded in favor of psychological considerations. Instead, the aim is to illustrate that psychoanalysts can contribute to a more complete analysis of the personality organizations of political leaders, their interactions with their followers and their role in political or societal processes. Ksenia Zaitseva, a psychoanalytic psychotherapist based in Kharkiv, in her chapter leaves a poignant, personal testimony of the first weeks of the conflict, with the whole panoply of contradictory, confusing feelings, following the astonishingly pressure of destruction, bombings and massacres of innocent people, then of her experience of refugee in Austria, in her turn able to lead psychological groups for refugee children and adults. Sverre Varvin in his chapter concerning refugees, not specifically Ukrainian refugees, analyzes the two polarities of our attitude towards them: compassion and dehumanization. Finally, a group of psychologists of Lviv University (Kalka, Blikhar, Tsyvinska, Kuzo, Marchuk, Katolyk) in their chapter investigates the specifics of resiliency, its manifestation and development in people facing military aggression against Ukraine. The results of applying "The Person-in-the-Rain Drawing" technique makes it possible to assess the components of resiliency and the main levels of its manifestation in the research group in which the study showed three levels of resiliency: low, medium and high. The importance of individuating different levels of resiliency is to find and implement ways of psychological support and provision of people with a low and medium level of resiliency. By increasing its level through the development of adaptive resources and resistance, individuals can mobilize their internal reserves in order to protect their country and provide assistance at various levels.

Nuovo libro delle Edizioni Frenis Zero INFANT RESEARCH E PSICOANALISI

Questa prima edizione italiana viene pubblicata dopo la morte di Arnold Modell, a cui questo libr... more Questa prima edizione italiana viene pubblicata dopo la morte di Arnold Modell, a cui questo libro è dedicato insieme a tre dei pionieri del dialogo tra psicoanalisi ed infant research: Daniel Stern, Berry Brazelton e Jeremy Nahum. Il libro è introdotto da un ricordo di Daniel Stern da parte di Daniel Schechter e da un tributo a Jeremy Nahum scritto da Karlen Lyons-Ruth. Dopo l'introduzione del curatore, Giuseppe Leo, lo sviluppo delle metodologie dell'infant research viene illustrato dal contributo scritto da Beatrice Beebe, il cui viaggio ci conduce attraverso la creazione di una disciplina in compagnia dei suoi creatori come Daniel Stern, Frank Lachmann, Joseph Jaffe e molti altri. Il capitolo di Trevarthen è una discussione del suo lavoro con Berry Brazelton. Il contributo scritto da Ed Tronick si focalizza sulla diade madre-bambino come anche su quella analista-paziente, diadi concepite come sistemi dinamici aperti, capaci di creare significati, in cui la coerenza è imperfetta nel migliore dei casi e la coordinazione si alterna con la non corrispondenza. Karlen Lyons-Ruth e Jeremy Nahum, due dei membri del Boston Change Process Study Group, trattano nel loro capitolo del mondo rappresentazionale delle madri, in particolare della valutazione delle rappresentazioni di madri la cui relazione col proprio figlio è caratterizzata dalla confusione dei ruoli.

Libro CRISI ECOLOGICA E PANDEMIA. UNA SFIDA PER LA PSICOANALISI

by giuseppe leo, Hilda Catz, and Cosimo Schinaia

La psicoanalisi contemporanea ha effettuato recentemente un “cambio di paradigma” che consiste ne... more La psicoanalisi contemporanea ha effettuato recentemente un “cambio di paradigma” che consiste nel misurarsi coi disagi delle civiltà emergenti dall’estensione del dominio esplicativo della psicoanalisi non solo in direzione dei fenomeni sociali e politici, ma anche dell’impatto dei problemi ecologici ed ambientali sulla psiche umana. Nuovi paradigmi necessitano di nuovi concetti come quello di “disagio pandemico” coniato dal curatore Giuseppe Leo. Tale termine si riferisce all’opera “Il Disagio della Civiltà” di Freud in modo da focalizzarsi su quelle mutazioni antropologiche, che comprendono l’espansione delle tecnologie e i mutamenti ecologici, che rappresentano fratture irreversibili che hanno posto una parte dell’umanità di fronte alla fragilità di quelle strutture sociali e culturali, su cui, come scrive Kaës, si basa la permanenza della civiltà, se non della stessa specie umana. E occuparsi dei disagi delle civiltà conduce la psicoanalisi a una sfida non del tutto ancora assimilata, quella del misurarsi con le dinamiche sociali e non più solo con quelle intrapsichiche, e del pensare a tali cambiamenti come “condizioni extra-psichiche”, sempre secondo Kaës, che forniscono una cornice o “setting” alla formazione dell’apparato psichico, alle forme della soggettività che da esse derivano e alle
forme di sofferenza che esse hanno prodotto. Dopo l'introduzione di Robert Hinshelwood "Pandemia e pandemonio" ed il testo di Robert Stolorow su "Pianeta Terra. Crollo dell'illusione metafisica", entrambi focalizzandosi sullo stretto legame esistente tra cambiamenti climatici e pandemia da Covid-19, il curatore Giuseppe Leo sviluppa il tema della "Pandemia e disagi climatici in psicoanalisi" con un excursus storico che da Freud passa attraverso Searles e quindi gli autori contemporanei che più hanno indagato nella letteratura psicoanalitica le questioni ecologiche. La sezione “Psicoanalisi in tempi di pandemia” viene introdotta da Nancy McWilliams con il testo “Psicoterapia in una pandemia”, scritto durante il confinamento a New York e riguardante i sentimenti del terapeuta nel corso delle consultazioni online. Nella stessa sezione troviamo gli scritti di Anna Ferruta, Hilda Catz, Giuseppe Riefolo, Merav Roth, e Cosimo Schinaia, concernenti il come si “applica” la psicoanalisi alla crisi del COVID-19 (psicoanalisi come strumento di interpretazione della crisi pandemica ai vari livelli, individuale, sociale, politico) ma anche il come si “pratica” essa in una tale situazione (condizioni di praticabilità di essa in un tale contesto globale senza precedenti). La sezione “Quando lo psicoanalista è il paziente” contiene la testimonianza di Pietro Roberto Goisis, psichiatra e psicoanalista milanese sopravvissuto al coronavirus. In questa pandemia sia l’analista che il paziente devono far i conti con una realtà esterna pericolosa, col compito supplementare per il terapeuta di aiutare a far fronte alle minacce provenienti dalla realtà interna del paziente. Infine, nella sezione “Psicoanalisi e Cambiamento Climatico” c’è il capitolo scritto da Marco Francesconi e da Daniela Scotto di Fasano “Ambiente e Covid-19”.

Libro ENACTMENT IN PSICOANALISI (a cura di Giuseppe Leo & Giuseppe Riefolo)

Questo libro, dedicato alla memoria di Lewis Aron e di Jeremy Safran, esplora il tema dell’enactm... more Questo libro, dedicato alla memoria di Lewis Aron e di Jeremy Safran, esplora il tema dell’enactment in relazione ai confini in psicoanalisi, con riferimento ad una serie di punti di vista che inquadrano aree cruciali per la clinica. Nell’introduzione Galit Atlas scrive che l’enactment è diventato un termine ampiamente utilizzato nella psicoanalisi contemporanea trasversalmente alle varie scuole ed orientamenti, un termine che si riferisce al modo davvero unico in cui l’analista si sente affettivamente coinvolto e partecipe della matrice relazionale del paziente in modi che egli non aveva previsto in anticipo e che potrebbe riconoscere solo in un tempo successivo. Inoltre, l’analista nordamericana analizza il concetto di “enactment generativo”, suggerendo che gli enactment nella diade analitica non vanno visti solo come una modalità restrittiva e ripetitiva, il cui beneficio terapeutico può passare solo attraverso la loro risoluzione, ma essi stessi possono essere anche generativi e produttivi di crescita. Giuseppe Leo, uno dei curatori del libro, esamina il concetto di enactment a partire dai seguenti punti di vista: intra-psichico, inter-psichico, intra-disciplinare, inter-disciplinare, inter-culturale e trans-generazionale. Il capitolo di Jeremy Safran e di Jessica Kraus tratta delle rotture dell’alleanza terapeutica, delle impasse e degli enactment legati al transfert-controtransfert che sono inevitabili nella terapia. Dato che un crescente corpus di evidenze suggerisce che la riparazione delle rotture dell’alleanza è correlata ad un esito positivo del trattamento, gli autori promuovono lo sviluppo di metodi di training finalizzati ad affinare le capacità dei terapeuti di individuare tali rotture ed i processi terapeutici negativi in modo da lavorare con essi costruttivamente. Jay Greenberg nel suo capitolo sottolinea come, nonostante l’approccio relazionale apra la possibilità di concepire la tecnica su misura rispetto ai singoli analizzandi, in modo da negoziare il modo più agevole per lavorare all’interno di ogni unica diade analitica, molte vignette cliniche nella recente letteratura mettono in evidenza la tendenza degli analisti di assumersi notevoli rischi, di coinvolgersi in modalità altamente personali coi pazienti, rompendo in tal modo la cornice analitica tradizionale. L’autore discute varie implicazioni della tendenza degli analisti relazionali ad enfatizzare tale sorta di interventi, e pone questioni su come venga recepito attualmente il pensiero relazionale. Efrat Ginot nel suo capitolo mostra come, nonostante l’apparente estraneità degli enactment con l’empatia, le neuroscienze abbiano iniziato a delineare processi neuropsicologici che modellano in modo simile e che sono alla base di entrambi, facendo luce su quali meccanismi essi abbiano in comune. Infine, Giuseppe Riefolo, l’altro curatore del libro, suggerisce che il dialogo analitico si sviluppa come un movimento continuo chiamato “processo dissociativo”, e che tale processo consiste nella continua oscillazione tra posizioni difensive e posizioni creative. La dissociazione in quanto difesa costituisce un’affermazione teorica di Freud, mentre la dissociazione come possibilità di nuove soluzioni creative rappresenta un contributo teorico che proviene da Janet e che è stato adottato dalla psicoanalisi relazionale ed intersoggettiva. L’analista deve rispettare le dissociazioni difensive del paziente, ma al contempo deve essere particolarmente attento a supportare potenziali soluzioni, mai diventate reali prima, che possono emergere come nuovi aggregati associativi derivanti dalla dissociazione di esperienze frustranti o traumatiche, che Riefolo propone di chiamare “dissociazioni creative”.

EL CORONA-ENCUADRE. Capitulo del libro "Psicoanálisis en Pandemia y post-Pandemia: Caos-Fronteras Complejas-Horizontes Inciertos "

libro "Psicoanálisis en Pandemia y post-Pandemia: Caos-Fronteras Complejas-Horizontes Inciertos ", 2021

Y en este tomo VI de la Serie escrita en Pandemia continuamos en esas búsquedas de escenarios pos... more Y en este tomo VI de la Serie escrita en Pandemia continuamos en esas búsquedas de escenarios posibles para nuestra tarea como psicoanalistas, en esa propuesta de sostener el interés, guiados por las palabras de Freud a la manera de un faro que ilumina nuestros escarpados derroteros, que nos llevan por caminos imprevisibles y desconocidos frente a una realidad distópica que nos atañe a todos.
Y 100 años después, esta apocalíptica y darwinista pandemia de Covid 19 del siglo XXI nos enfrenta a un cruce entre dos eras y sus consecuencias como trauma individual, social y colectivo. Nos encontramos además con lo que podríamos denominar una pandemia mental que sigue atenazando las sociedades, las Instituciones, y las familias, cuyas consecuencias pueden constatarse en todos los órdenes de la vida.
A lo que se suma el entorno ambiental, inclusive el cambio climático y sus trágicas derivaciones que ya no se pueden desconocer ni desmentir más. Como dice Edgard Morin (2021) “…el desencadenamiento tecno-económico mundial animado por un afán de lucro insaciable es el motor de la degradación de la biosfera y de la antroposfera. Y esto me devuelve a mi resistencia” (...) “La crisis de la pandemia esta volviendo a despertar la conciencia ecológica”.

book NEUROSCIENCE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS (Second edition) Edited by Giuseppe Leo

by giuseppe leo and Allan Schore

NEUROSCIENCE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS (Second edition), 2021

The second edition of the book is foreworded by Jakub Przybyła who criticizes the idea of integra... more The second edition of the book is foreworded by Jakub Przybyła who criticizes the idea of integrating neurobiology and psychotherapy based mainly on the study of psychoanalysis and neuropsychoanalysis. The author tackles philosophical and methodological problems which arise from attempts to carry out this integration. Parallel issues of psychoanalytic psychotherapy practice are also addressed. He presents the view that integration can result with a harmful reduction. It also proposes a look at the relationship between psychotherapy and neurobiology as an area of cooperation that avoids the confusion of theoretical languages thanks to the separability of research planes of both domains. This separation results in a kind of dualism and instrumentalism. The book, after the first two chapters written respectively by Georg Northoff and Grigoris Vaslamatzis, introducing some unavoidable theoretical questions this interdisciplinary dialogue has to face, presents four chapters in which as many basic clinical areas, dissociation, sleep and dream, post-traumatic conditions and infant research, constitute the main topics. Georg Northoff discusses the possibility of overcoming the highly impasse generating contraposition between localizationism and holism. Grigoris Vaslamatzis states that Freud’s legacy, deriving from his work “Project for a scientific psychology” (1895), could give a new impetus to the dialogue between psychoanalysis and neurosciences. David Mann tries to show how reflexive processes generate each of the levels of the human system (relationship, human substance and group) and integrate them one to another, while dissociative processes tend throughout to pull them apart. Matthew Walker and Robert Stickgold explore one of the most exciting hypotheses about the functions of sleep, i.e. that of the contribution of sleep to processes of memory and brain plasticity. Bessel van der Kolk examines how the research showing how exposure to extreme stress affects brain function is making important contributions to understanding the nature of traumatic stress. Allan Schore in the last chapter in his review integrates recent advances in attachment theory, affective neuroscience, developmental stress research, and infant psychiatry in order to delineate the developmental precursors of post-traumatic stress disorder and to generate more powerful models of the early genesis of a predisposition to psychiatric disorders, including PTSD.

Fiction Book "BLOWN LIVES. A Tale for Spielrein, Gross, Tausk and the other losers of psychoanalysis"

What kind of mystery is concealed behind the suicides of these psychoanalysts: Tatiana Rosenthal,... more What kind of mystery is concealed behind the suicides of these psychoanalysts: Tatiana Rosenthal, Viktor Tausk, Wilhelm Stekel, Herbert Silberer? Karin Stephen, a sister-in-law of Virginia Woolf, and a psychoanalyst herself, decides to follow the biographical tracks of these figures who were all authentic pioneers of psychoanalysis, some of them even very close to Sigmund Freud. During a stay in Zurich, Karin comes across an unpublished manuscript, written by Otto Gross, an Austrian psychoanalyst who was admitted several times to psychiatric asylums for drug addiction. Otto's papers seem to her to contain illuminating revelations about these losers of psychoanalysis, whose lives seem to be interlaced through exchanges of letters, poetry and journal fragments. But is Otto's manuscript literary falsehood or authentic?
In the end, Karin Stephen herself was to die in the same way as her colleagues to whose lives she devoted herself: she committed suicide in 1953 in Britain.

Psicoanalisi e luoghi della memoria collettiva nei disagi delle civiltà mediterranee

by giuseppe leo, Guelfo Margherita, Claudio Neri, and Giuseppe Ruvolo

I LUOGHI INESPLORATI DELLA GRUPPO ANALISI, 2021

Capitolo del libro a cura di Antonio D'Angiò "I LUOGHI INESPLORATI DELLA GRUPPO ANALISI" (ISBN 97... more Capitolo del libro a cura di Antonio D'Angiò "I LUOGHI INESPLORATI DELLA GRUPPO ANALISI" (ISBN 9788889465455, pagg. 364, Editrice Il Ponte, 2021).
INDICE:

PREAMBOLO
Claudio Neri
INTRODUZIONE
Antonio d’Angiò
capitolo I
ID-ENTITÀ MEDITERRANEE E PROCESSI DI TRANSCULTURAZIONE.
LA SPECIFICITÀ DEL PENSIERO MERIDIANO
Presentazione del curatore
Nomos ed erranza: il potere, il volto, l’alterità nel pluriverso mediterraneo
Nelson Mauro Maldonato
Psicoanalisi e luoghi della memoria collettiva nei disagi delle civiltà mediterranee
Giuseppe Leo
La civiltà contemporanea: per una nuova grammatica speculativa
Giuseppe Limone
capitolo II
GRUPPI MULTICULTURALI, TRAUMI, VIOLENZE COLLETTIVE.
NUOVI DISPOSITIVI PER L’ACCOGLIENZA NELLE ISTITUZIONI.
Presentazione del curatore
Vertici e modelli psicoanalitici per accogliere catastrofi sociali nel nostro cervello gruppale
Guelfo Margherita
Le istituzioni di accoglienza dei minori non accompagnati:
un luogo per riafferrare ed elaborare le ripercussioni soggettive d
ei cedimenti e delle rotture delle cornici culturali
Jean Pierre Pinel
Emergenza in mare. Attraversare il caos delle emozioni
Stefania Diletta Del Bono
I due fronti della sopravvivenza psichica nelle violenze sociali estreme
Silvia Amati Sas
capitolo III
VERSO UNA CLINICA DELLE FRONTIERE:
ESTENSIONI ED INTERAZIONI DELLA GRUPPOANALISI TRANSCULTURALE
Presentazione del curatore
Quel che resta dell’etnopsichiatria.
La lezione dei saperi terapeutici locali e la critica agli approcci egemonici
nella clinica della migrazione (ABSTRACT)
Roberto Beneduce
Dispositivi e processi di gruppi terapeutici transculturali per migranti e rifugiati
Jaak Le Roy
Radici e rizomi dell'approccio etno sistemico narrativo nella clinica con migranti e non (TRACCE)
Natale Losi
capitolo IV
DISLOCAZIONI, MIGRAZIONI, TRASFORMAZIONI. SOGGETTIVITÀ IN TRANSITO
Presentazione del curatore
Transizioni: l’eterogeneità delle identità
Virginia De Micco
L’attesa dell'identità: crisi e riscatto nel gruppo psicoanalitico transculturale
Alfredo Lombardozzi
Un’identità transculturale contemporanea: la soggettività neoliberista di massa
Giuseppe Ruvolo
capitolo V
LECTIO MAGISTRALIS
Presentazione del curatore
Molteplicità, eterogeneità, singolarità.
La formazione al lavoro psicoanalitico di gruppo in dispositivi multiculturali
René Kaës
capitolo VI
PER UNA GRUPPOANALISI VISTA MARE
I Gruppi esperienziali
Antonio d’Angiò
capitolo VII
CONCLUSIONE GENERALE… E IL BISOGNO DI INTERROGARSI
Antonio d’Angiò

ENACTMENT OF MUSICAL LISTENING IN PSYCHOANALYSIS by Giuseppe Leo

The conference by Giuseppe Leo was held on June 7, 2019, in Lecce (Italy) during a presentation ... more

3 views

Launch movie of the Second Edition of the book NEUROSCIENCE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS (Frenis Zero publishing house) edited by Giuseppe Leo, authored by David Mann, Georg Northoff, Allan N. Schore, Robert Stickgold, Bessel A. Van Der Kolk, Grigoris Vaslamatzis, Matthew P. Walker

Second Edition of the book NEUROSCIENCE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS (Frenis Zero publishing house) edited ... more Second Edition of the book NEUROSCIENCE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS (Frenis Zero publishing house) edited by Giuseppe Leo, authored by David Mann, Georg Northoff, Allan N. Schore, Robert Stickgold, Bessel A. Van Der Kolk, Grigoris Vaslamatzis, Matthew P. Walker , with a foreword by Jakub Przybyła (ISBN 978-88-97479-30-7, pagg.322, date of publication October 2021). On Lulu shop: https://www.lulu.com/en/en/shop/georg-northoff-and-bessel-a-van-der-kolk-and-allan-n-schore/neuroscience-and-psychoanalysis-2nd-edition/paperback/product-5nzw29.html?page=1&pageSize=4
PRESENTATION: The second edition of the book is foreworded by Jakub Przybyła who criticizes the idea of integrating neurobiology and psychotherapy based mainly on the study of psychoanalysis and neuropsychoanalysis. The author tackles philosophical and methodological problems which arise from attempts to carry out this integration. Parallel issues of psychoanalytic psychotherapy practice are also addressed.

3 views

AT THE BORDERS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS / AI CONFINI DELLA PSICOANALISI

Talk held by Giuseppe Leo (Nov 23, 2013) Conferenza tenuta da Giuseppe Leo (23 Novembre 2013)

3 views

Video presenting Giuseppe Leo's activities as a publisher during 2021.

Giuseppe Leo's activities as a publisher during 2021: - editor of the collective book NEUROSCIEN... more Giuseppe Leo's activities as a publisher during 2021:

- editor of the collective book NEUROSCIENCE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS (2nd edition, 2021)

- author of the fiction book MY IDEAS FELT LIKE OUTSIZE CLOTHES. A TALE FOR ETTY HILLESUM (2nd edition, 2021)

- author of the fiction book BLOWN LIVES. A TALE FOR SPIELREIN, GROSS, TAUSK AND THE OTHER LOSERS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS (2021)

- editor of the collective book INFANT RESEARCH AND PSYCHOANALYSIS (2nd edition, 2021)

- editor of the collective book PSYCHANALYSE, LIEUX DE MéMOIRE ET TRAUMATISMES COLLECTIFS (in French, 3rd edition, 2021)

New Frenis Zero book "ENACTMENT IN PSYCHOANALYSIS" edited by Giuseppe Leo, writings by Efrat Ginot, J. Greenberg, J. Safran, Giuseppe Riefolo et al

The book is dedicated to Jeremy Safran and Lewis Aron, whose recent loss drove the editors as we... more The book is dedicated to Jeremy Safran and Lewis Aron, whose recent loss drove the editors as well as the publisher to gather these contributions about enactment, a topic to whom Safran and Aron devoted many papers of theirs. As Safran wrote, though problematic and source of confusion among different psychoanalytic approaches, the epistemological status of psychoanalysis, related to its condition of ‘liminality’, is a meaningful source of vitality for the discipline. The book explores the subject of enactment in relation to boundaries in psychoanalysis, referring to a series of viewpoints that lead to many crucial areas.

15 views

Giuseppe Leo introduces Efrat Ginot's seminar "ENACTMENT AND EMPATHY" organized by Frenis Zero psychoanalytic publishing house (June 11, 2022). The webinar was part of the series "Mediterranean Id-entities".

Efrat Ginot's talk dealt with some issues taken from her last book "Our Anxious Selves. Neuropsyc... more

Giuseppe Leo's Introduction to Galit Atlas about Generative Enactment (webinar organized by Frenis Zero publishing house, Nov 26, 2022)

The webinar with Galit Atlas explored enactment and generative enactment in a relational perspect... more

1 views

Launch video of the Second edition of the book ROCK MUSIC AND PSYCHOANALYSIS edited by Giuseppe Leo, writings by Lewis Aron, Joseph LeDoux, Heather Ferguson et al.

The second edition of the book “Rock Music and Psychoanalysis” was published after the beginning ... more The second edition of the book “Rock Music and Psychoanalysis” was published after the beginning of Covid-19 pandemic. Pandemic, as writes Heather Ferguson, has brought the world to its knees, leaving massive unemployment, hunger, loss, and death in its wake, disproportionately affecting people of color and poor communities world-wide. The pandemic has perturbed our ways of going-on-being, forcing social inequities into the spotlight. In our consultation rooms, we wonder how our social and psychic worlds will be altered, irrevocably, creating opportunities for revitalization, reorder, or a return to the status quo. Pandemic has affected both psychoanalytic practice and rock music playing. Both psychoanalysts and musicians have to practise through telematic platforms. Some authors of this book are analysts (such as Lewis Aron, Heather Ferguson, Giuseppe Leo and John Shaw) who play rock or pop music. Not all the contributors are psychoanalysts: Joseph LeDoux is a neuroscientist.

4 views

REFUGEES, PSYCHOSOMATIC SUFFERING AND RESILIENCY by Giuseppe Leo (Barcelona, June 30, 2017)

Talk held by Giuseppe Leo at the 5th Conference of the European Association of Psychosomatic Med... more

1 views

Book "INFANT RESEARCH AND PSYCHOANALYSIS" Second edition. Edted by Giuseppe Leo

This second edition of the book was released after Jeremy Nahum's death and it is dedicated to th... more This second edition of the book was released after Jeremy Nahum's death and it is dedicated to the memory of three pioneers of the dialogue between psychoanalysis and infant research: Daniel Stern, Berry Brazelton and Jeremy Nahum. The book has the difficult task to cover an interdisciplinary area in which psychoanalysis has to deal with infant research. The development of infant research methodologies is illustrated in the present book by the contribution written by Beatrice Beebe, whose ‘journey’ leads us through the ‘creating’ of a discipline with its creators, her traveling companions, such as Daniel Stern, Frank Lachmann, Joseph Jaffe and many others. Trevarthen’s chapter is a discussion of his work with T. Berry Brazelton. Tronick’s contribution focuses on mother-infant dyad as well as on analyst-patient one, conceived as open dynamic systems, capable of meaning making, in which coherence is at best imperfect, and coordination alternates with mismatching.

12 views

Book SUPERVISION AND PSYCHOANALYSIS

by giuseppe leo and Frenis Zero

This book was inspired by two specific events: on the one hand, the release in Italy of Nancy McW... more This book was inspired by two specific events: on the one hand, the release in Italy of Nancy McWilliams' book Psychoanalytic Supervision (McWilliams, 2021), and, on the other hand, a seminar on the same topic organised by Frenis Zero Publishing House in November 2023. Group supervision is the central theme of the chapter that Nancy McWilliams herself contributed to this book. A psychoanalytic supervision group can be formed in many different ways and in many different contexts: in his chapter, Giuseppe Riefolo focuses, in fact, on the discussion of cases in the multi-professional groups of a Mental Health Centre.
Sensitive issues are those related to the unconscious relations that are triggered in the supervision process, and in particular related to the transference-countertransference bind that arises between the patient/supervisee relationship and that of the latter with the supervisor. Of interest, in this book, are the statements made, from a perspective closer to the object relations model, by Donald Metzer in his 1999 interview, and also the comments made in his chapter by Anthony Bass (from a more relational standpoint) referring to his own experience as a supervisor as well as to the work of other authors like Berman (2014) and Sarnat (2014). Finally, a key research issue is the correlation that can be established between the improvement of patients in treatment and the fact that the therapist is undergoing supervision: this question is tackled by Schmolke and Hoffmann in a chapter of this book entitled "Mirror Processes in the Protected Space of Psychoanalytic Supervision".

Libro SUPERVISIONE E PSICOANALISI

SUPERVISIONE E PSICOANALISI, 2023

Quello della supervisione in gruppo è il tema centrale del capitolo che Nancy McWilliams ha volut... more Quello della supervisione in gruppo è il tema centrale del capitolo che Nancy McWilliams ha voluto donare per la costruzione di questo libro. Ma un gruppo di supervisione psicoanalitica si può formare in tanti modi diversi ed in tanti contesti diversi: come gruppo di analisti e/o psicoterapeuti di formazione analitica già avviata, o di gruppi di analisti e/o psicoterapeuti in formazione (training) all’interno di Istituti o Scuole di specializzazione in psicoterapia, o ancora di gruppi che si formano all’interno di corsi universitari che forniscono un supplemento formativo clinico ai normali corsi teorici sulla psicoterapia psicoanalitica. Ci sono poi le esperienze di supervisione istituzionale all’interno dei Servizi (psichiatrici o destinati ad altri tipi di utenza) o di Comunità: nel suo capitolo Giuseppe Riefolo si concentra proprio sulla discussione dei casi nei gruppi multiprofessionali di un Centro di Salute Mentale. Più delicate sono le questioni legate alle relazioni inconsce che si attivano nel processo di supervisione, ed in particolare relative all’intreccio transfero-controtransferale che si crea tra la relazione paziente-analista in supervisione e quella di quest’ultimo col supervisore. Kernberg parla di ‘processo parallelo’. Su tali intrecci transfero-controtransferali tra setting analitico e setting di supervisione, ossia sul confine tra terapia e supervisione, su cui ciascun supervisore ha il dovere di vigilare, in questo libro sono preziose le affermazioni di Donald Meltzer (in un’ottica più vicina al modello delle relazioni oggettuali) espresse in un’intervista da lui rilasciata nel 1999, nonché i richiami che fa Anthony Bass (in un’ottica più relazionale) nel suo capitolo alla propria esperienza di supervisore, nonché agli scritti di altri autori come Berman (2014) e Sarnat (2014). Infine, Schmolke e Hoffmann in un capitolo di questo libro illustrano un programma di ricerca, sulla base di questionari somministrati sia a terapeuti in formazione che ad analisti già formati, tesi ad un’auto- valutazione su quanto la supervisione da loro seguita possa avere avuto dei risvolti terapeutici nella loro relazione coi rispettivi pazienti.

Book WHY WAR IN UKRAINE AND IN EUROPE? PSYCHOANALYSIS, TRAUMA AND RESILIENCY

On the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine this book wants to cover an interdisc... more On the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine this book wants to cover an interdisciplinary investigation on the motivational background of the current war in Ukraine as well as on the mental health strategies aiming to promote resiliency in such a massive, traumatic context. After the preface written by the editor, Giuseppe Leo, Vamik Volkan’s chapter examines how can occur when the personality organization of a political leader becomes intertwined with societal and political processes and shared historical images. It is not suggested that “real-world” issues and secondary process calculations related to horrible events are not important and should be discarded in favor of psychological considerations. Instead, the aim is to illustrate that psychoanalysts can contribute to a more complete analysis of the personality organizations of political leaders, their interactions with their followers and their role in political or societal processes. Ksenia Zaitseva, a psychoanalytic psychotherapist based in Kharkiv, in her chapter leaves a poignant, personal testimony of the first weeks of the conflict, with the whole panoply of contradictory, confusing feelings, following the astonishingly pressure of destruction, bombings and massacres of innocent people, then of her experience of refugee in Austria, in her turn able to lead psychological groups for refugee children and adults. Sverre Varvin in his chapter concerning refugees, not specifically Ukrainian refugees, analyzes the two polarities of our attitude towards them: compassion and dehumanization. Finally, a group of psychologists of Lviv University (Kalka, Blikhar, Tsyvinska, Kuzo, Marchuk, Katolyk) in their chapter investigates the specifics of resiliency, its manifestation and development in people facing military aggression against Ukraine. The results of applying "The Person-in-the-Rain Drawing" technique makes it possible to assess the components of resiliency and the main levels of its manifestation in the research group in which the study showed three levels of resiliency: low, medium and high. The importance of individuating different levels of resiliency is to find and implement ways of psychological support and provision of people with a low and medium level of resiliency. By increasing its level through the development of adaptive resources and resistance, individuals can mobilize their internal reserves in order to protect their country and provide assistance at various levels.

Nuovo libro delle Edizioni Frenis Zero INFANT RESEARCH E PSICOANALISI

Questa prima edizione italiana viene pubblicata dopo la morte di Arnold Modell, a cui questo libr... more Questa prima edizione italiana viene pubblicata dopo la morte di Arnold Modell, a cui questo libro è dedicato insieme a tre dei pionieri del dialogo tra psicoanalisi ed infant research: Daniel Stern, Berry Brazelton e Jeremy Nahum. Il libro è introdotto da un ricordo di Daniel Stern da parte di Daniel Schechter e da un tributo a Jeremy Nahum scritto da Karlen Lyons-Ruth. Dopo l'introduzione del curatore, Giuseppe Leo, lo sviluppo delle metodologie dell'infant research viene illustrato dal contributo scritto da Beatrice Beebe, il cui viaggio ci conduce attraverso la creazione di una disciplina in compagnia dei suoi creatori come Daniel Stern, Frank Lachmann, Joseph Jaffe e molti altri. Il capitolo di Trevarthen è una discussione del suo lavoro con Berry Brazelton. Il contributo scritto da Ed Tronick si focalizza sulla diade madre-bambino come anche su quella analista-paziente, diadi concepite come sistemi dinamici aperti, capaci di creare significati, in cui la coerenza è imperfetta nel migliore dei casi e la coordinazione si alterna con la non corrispondenza. Karlen Lyons-Ruth e Jeremy Nahum, due dei membri del Boston Change Process Study Group, trattano nel loro capitolo del mondo rappresentazionale delle madri, in particolare della valutazione delle rappresentazioni di madri la cui relazione col proprio figlio è caratterizzata dalla confusione dei ruoli.

Libro CRISI ECOLOGICA E PANDEMIA. UNA SFIDA PER LA PSICOANALISI

by giuseppe leo, Hilda Catz, and Cosimo Schinaia

La psicoanalisi contemporanea ha effettuato recentemente un “cambio di paradigma” che consiste ne... more La psicoanalisi contemporanea ha effettuato recentemente un “cambio di paradigma” che consiste nel misurarsi coi disagi delle civiltà emergenti dall’estensione del dominio esplicativo della psicoanalisi non solo in direzione dei fenomeni sociali e politici, ma anche dell’impatto dei problemi ecologici ed ambientali sulla psiche umana. Nuovi paradigmi necessitano di nuovi concetti come quello di “disagio pandemico” coniato dal curatore Giuseppe Leo. Tale termine si riferisce all’opera “Il Disagio della Civiltà” di Freud in modo da focalizzarsi su quelle mutazioni antropologiche, che comprendono l’espansione delle tecnologie e i mutamenti ecologici, che rappresentano fratture irreversibili che hanno posto una parte dell’umanità di fronte alla fragilità di quelle strutture sociali e culturali, su cui, come scrive Kaës, si basa la permanenza della civiltà, se non della stessa specie umana. E occuparsi dei disagi delle civiltà conduce la psicoanalisi a una sfida non del tutto ancora assimilata, quella del misurarsi con le dinamiche sociali e non più solo con quelle intrapsichiche, e del pensare a tali cambiamenti come “condizioni extra-psichiche”, sempre secondo Kaës, che forniscono una cornice o “setting” alla formazione dell’apparato psichico, alle forme della soggettività che da esse derivano e alle
forme di sofferenza che esse hanno prodotto. Dopo l'introduzione di Robert Hinshelwood "Pandemia e pandemonio" ed il testo di Robert Stolorow su "Pianeta Terra. Crollo dell'illusione metafisica", entrambi focalizzandosi sullo stretto legame esistente tra cambiamenti climatici e pandemia da Covid-19, il curatore Giuseppe Leo sviluppa il tema della "Pandemia e disagi climatici in psicoanalisi" con un excursus storico che da Freud passa attraverso Searles e quindi gli autori contemporanei che più hanno indagato nella letteratura psicoanalitica le questioni ecologiche. La sezione “Psicoanalisi in tempi di pandemia” viene introdotta da Nancy McWilliams con il testo “Psicoterapia in una pandemia”, scritto durante il confinamento a New York e riguardante i sentimenti del terapeuta nel corso delle consultazioni online. Nella stessa sezione troviamo gli scritti di Anna Ferruta, Hilda Catz, Giuseppe Riefolo, Merav Roth, e Cosimo Schinaia, concernenti il come si “applica” la psicoanalisi alla crisi del COVID-19 (psicoanalisi come strumento di interpretazione della crisi pandemica ai vari livelli, individuale, sociale, politico) ma anche il come si “pratica” essa in una tale situazione (condizioni di praticabilità di essa in un tale contesto globale senza precedenti). La sezione “Quando lo psicoanalista è il paziente” contiene la testimonianza di Pietro Roberto Goisis, psichiatra e psicoanalista milanese sopravvissuto al coronavirus. In questa pandemia sia l’analista che il paziente devono far i conti con una realtà esterna pericolosa, col compito supplementare per il terapeuta di aiutare a far fronte alle minacce provenienti dalla realtà interna del paziente. Infine, nella sezione “Psicoanalisi e Cambiamento Climatico” c’è il capitolo scritto da Marco Francesconi e da Daniela Scotto di Fasano “Ambiente e Covid-19”.

Libro ENACTMENT IN PSICOANALISI (a cura di Giuseppe Leo & Giuseppe Riefolo)

Questo libro, dedicato alla memoria di Lewis Aron e di Jeremy Safran, esplora il tema dell’enactm... more Questo libro, dedicato alla memoria di Lewis Aron e di Jeremy Safran, esplora il tema dell’enactment in relazione ai confini in psicoanalisi, con riferimento ad una serie di punti di vista che inquadrano aree cruciali per la clinica. Nell’introduzione Galit Atlas scrive che l’enactment è diventato un termine ampiamente utilizzato nella psicoanalisi contemporanea trasversalmente alle varie scuole ed orientamenti, un termine che si riferisce al modo davvero unico in cui l’analista si sente affettivamente coinvolto e partecipe della matrice relazionale del paziente in modi che egli non aveva previsto in anticipo e che potrebbe riconoscere solo in un tempo successivo. Inoltre, l’analista nordamericana analizza il concetto di “enactment generativo”, suggerendo che gli enactment nella diade analitica non vanno visti solo come una modalità restrittiva e ripetitiva, il cui beneficio terapeutico può passare solo attraverso la loro risoluzione, ma essi stessi possono essere anche generativi e produttivi di crescita. Giuseppe Leo, uno dei curatori del libro, esamina il concetto di enactment a partire dai seguenti punti di vista: intra-psichico, inter-psichico, intra-disciplinare, inter-disciplinare, inter-culturale e trans-generazionale. Il capitolo di Jeremy Safran e di Jessica Kraus tratta delle rotture dell’alleanza terapeutica, delle impasse e degli enactment legati al transfert-controtransfert che sono inevitabili nella terapia. Dato che un crescente corpus di evidenze suggerisce che la riparazione delle rotture dell’alleanza è correlata ad un esito positivo del trattamento, gli autori promuovono lo sviluppo di metodi di training finalizzati ad affinare le capacità dei terapeuti di individuare tali rotture ed i processi terapeutici negativi in modo da lavorare con essi costruttivamente. Jay Greenberg nel suo capitolo sottolinea come, nonostante l’approccio relazionale apra la possibilità di concepire la tecnica su misura rispetto ai singoli analizzandi, in modo da negoziare il modo più agevole per lavorare all’interno di ogni unica diade analitica, molte vignette cliniche nella recente letteratura mettono in evidenza la tendenza degli analisti di assumersi notevoli rischi, di coinvolgersi in modalità altamente personali coi pazienti, rompendo in tal modo la cornice analitica tradizionale. L’autore discute varie implicazioni della tendenza degli analisti relazionali ad enfatizzare tale sorta di interventi, e pone questioni su come venga recepito attualmente il pensiero relazionale. Efrat Ginot nel suo capitolo mostra come, nonostante l’apparente estraneità degli enactment con l’empatia, le neuroscienze abbiano iniziato a delineare processi neuropsicologici che modellano in modo simile e che sono alla base di entrambi, facendo luce su quali meccanismi essi abbiano in comune. Infine, Giuseppe Riefolo, l’altro curatore del libro, suggerisce che il dialogo analitico si sviluppa come un movimento continuo chiamato “processo dissociativo”, e che tale processo consiste nella continua oscillazione tra posizioni difensive e posizioni creative. La dissociazione in quanto difesa costituisce un’affermazione teorica di Freud, mentre la dissociazione come possibilità di nuove soluzioni creative rappresenta un contributo teorico che proviene da Janet e che è stato adottato dalla psicoanalisi relazionale ed intersoggettiva. L’analista deve rispettare le dissociazioni difensive del paziente, ma al contempo deve essere particolarmente attento a supportare potenziali soluzioni, mai diventate reali prima, che possono emergere come nuovi aggregati associativi derivanti dalla dissociazione di esperienze frustranti o traumatiche, che Riefolo propone di chiamare “dissociazioni creative”.

EL CORONA-ENCUADRE. Capitulo del libro "Psicoanálisis en Pandemia y post-Pandemia: Caos-Fronteras Complejas-Horizontes Inciertos "

libro "Psicoanálisis en Pandemia y post-Pandemia: Caos-Fronteras Complejas-Horizontes Inciertos ", 2021

Y en este tomo VI de la Serie escrita en Pandemia continuamos en esas búsquedas de escenarios pos... more Y en este tomo VI de la Serie escrita en Pandemia continuamos en esas búsquedas de escenarios posibles para nuestra tarea como psicoanalistas, en esa propuesta de sostener el interés, guiados por las palabras de Freud a la manera de un faro que ilumina nuestros escarpados derroteros, que nos llevan por caminos imprevisibles y desconocidos frente a una realidad distópica que nos atañe a todos.
Y 100 años después, esta apocalíptica y darwinista pandemia de Covid 19 del siglo XXI nos enfrenta a un cruce entre dos eras y sus consecuencias como trauma individual, social y colectivo. Nos encontramos además con lo que podríamos denominar una pandemia mental que sigue atenazando las sociedades, las Instituciones, y las familias, cuyas consecuencias pueden constatarse en todos los órdenes de la vida.
A lo que se suma el entorno ambiental, inclusive el cambio climático y sus trágicas derivaciones que ya no se pueden desconocer ni desmentir más. Como dice Edgard Morin (2021) “…el desencadenamiento tecno-económico mundial animado por un afán de lucro insaciable es el motor de la degradación de la biosfera y de la antroposfera. Y esto me devuelve a mi resistencia” (...) “La crisis de la pandemia esta volviendo a despertar la conciencia ecológica”.

book NEUROSCIENCE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS (Second edition) Edited by Giuseppe Leo

by giuseppe leo and Allan Schore

NEUROSCIENCE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS (Second edition), 2021

The second edition of the book is foreworded by Jakub Przybyła who criticizes the idea of integra... more The second edition of the book is foreworded by Jakub Przybyła who criticizes the idea of integrating neurobiology and psychotherapy based mainly on the study of psychoanalysis and neuropsychoanalysis. The author tackles philosophical and methodological problems which arise from attempts to carry out this integration. Parallel issues of psychoanalytic psychotherapy practice are also addressed. He presents the view that integration can result with a harmful reduction. It also proposes a look at the relationship between psychotherapy and neurobiology as an area of cooperation that avoids the confusion of theoretical languages thanks to the separability of research planes of both domains. This separation results in a kind of dualism and instrumentalism. The book, after the first two chapters written respectively by Georg Northoff and Grigoris Vaslamatzis, introducing some unavoidable theoretical questions this interdisciplinary dialogue has to face, presents four chapters in which as many basic clinical areas, dissociation, sleep and dream, post-traumatic conditions and infant research, constitute the main topics. Georg Northoff discusses the possibility of overcoming the highly impasse generating contraposition between localizationism and holism. Grigoris Vaslamatzis states that Freud’s legacy, deriving from his work “Project for a scientific psychology” (1895), could give a new impetus to the dialogue between psychoanalysis and neurosciences. David Mann tries to show how reflexive processes generate each of the levels of the human system (relationship, human substance and group) and integrate them one to another, while dissociative processes tend throughout to pull them apart. Matthew Walker and Robert Stickgold explore one of the most exciting hypotheses about the functions of sleep, i.e. that of the contribution of sleep to processes of memory and brain plasticity. Bessel van der Kolk examines how the research showing how exposure to extreme stress affects brain function is making important contributions to understanding the nature of traumatic stress. Allan Schore in the last chapter in his review integrates recent advances in attachment theory, affective neuroscience, developmental stress research, and infant psychiatry in order to delineate the developmental precursors of post-traumatic stress disorder and to generate more powerful models of the early genesis of a predisposition to psychiatric disorders, including PTSD.

Fiction Book "BLOWN LIVES. A Tale for Spielrein, Gross, Tausk and the other losers of psychoanalysis"

What kind of mystery is concealed behind the suicides of these psychoanalysts: Tatiana Rosenthal,... more What kind of mystery is concealed behind the suicides of these psychoanalysts: Tatiana Rosenthal, Viktor Tausk, Wilhelm Stekel, Herbert Silberer? Karin Stephen, a sister-in-law of Virginia Woolf, and a psychoanalyst herself, decides to follow the biographical tracks of these figures who were all authentic pioneers of psychoanalysis, some of them even very close to Sigmund Freud. During a stay in Zurich, Karin comes across an unpublished manuscript, written by Otto Gross, an Austrian psychoanalyst who was admitted several times to psychiatric asylums for drug addiction. Otto's papers seem to her to contain illuminating revelations about these losers of psychoanalysis, whose lives seem to be interlaced through exchanges of letters, poetry and journal fragments. But is Otto's manuscript literary falsehood or authentic?
In the end, Karin Stephen herself was to die in the same way as her colleagues to whose lives she devoted herself: she committed suicide in 1953 in Britain.

Psicoanalisi e luoghi della memoria collettiva nei disagi delle civiltà mediterranee

by giuseppe leo, Guelfo Margherita, Claudio Neri, and Giuseppe Ruvolo

I LUOGHI INESPLORATI DELLA GRUPPO ANALISI, 2021

Capitolo del libro a cura di Antonio D'Angiò "I LUOGHI INESPLORATI DELLA GRUPPO ANALISI" (ISBN 97... more Capitolo del libro a cura di Antonio D'Angiò "I LUOGHI INESPLORATI DELLA GRUPPO ANALISI" (ISBN 9788889465455, pagg. 364, Editrice Il Ponte, 2021).
INDICE:

PREAMBOLO
Claudio Neri
INTRODUZIONE
Antonio d’Angiò
capitolo I
ID-ENTITÀ MEDITERRANEE E PROCESSI DI TRANSCULTURAZIONE.
LA SPECIFICITÀ DEL PENSIERO MERIDIANO
Presentazione del curatore
Nomos ed erranza: il potere, il volto, l’alterità nel pluriverso mediterraneo
Nelson Mauro Maldonato
Psicoanalisi e luoghi della memoria collettiva nei disagi delle civiltà mediterranee
Giuseppe Leo
La civiltà contemporanea: per una nuova grammatica speculativa
Giuseppe Limone
capitolo II
GRUPPI MULTICULTURALI, TRAUMI, VIOLENZE COLLETTIVE.
NUOVI DISPOSITIVI PER L’ACCOGLIENZA NELLE ISTITUZIONI.
Presentazione del curatore
Vertici e modelli psicoanalitici per accogliere catastrofi sociali nel nostro cervello gruppale
Guelfo Margherita
Le istituzioni di accoglienza dei minori non accompagnati:
un luogo per riafferrare ed elaborare le ripercussioni soggettive d
ei cedimenti e delle rotture delle cornici culturali
Jean Pierre Pinel
Emergenza in mare. Attraversare il caos delle emozioni
Stefania Diletta Del Bono
I due fronti della sopravvivenza psichica nelle violenze sociali estreme
Silvia Amati Sas
capitolo III
VERSO UNA CLINICA DELLE FRONTIERE:
ESTENSIONI ED INTERAZIONI DELLA GRUPPOANALISI TRANSCULTURALE
Presentazione del curatore
Quel che resta dell’etnopsichiatria.
La lezione dei saperi terapeutici locali e la critica agli approcci egemonici
nella clinica della migrazione (ABSTRACT)
Roberto Beneduce
Dispositivi e processi di gruppi terapeutici transculturali per migranti e rifugiati
Jaak Le Roy
Radici e rizomi dell'approccio etno sistemico narrativo nella clinica con migranti e non (TRACCE)
Natale Losi
capitolo IV
DISLOCAZIONI, MIGRAZIONI, TRASFORMAZIONI. SOGGETTIVITÀ IN TRANSITO
Presentazione del curatore
Transizioni: l’eterogeneità delle identità
Virginia De Micco
L’attesa dell'identità: crisi e riscatto nel gruppo psicoanalitico transculturale
Alfredo Lombardozzi
Un’identità transculturale contemporanea: la soggettività neoliberista di massa
Giuseppe Ruvolo
capitolo V
LECTIO MAGISTRALIS
Presentazione del curatore
Molteplicità, eterogeneità, singolarità.
La formazione al lavoro psicoanalitico di gruppo in dispositivi multiculturali
René Kaës
capitolo VI
PER UNA GRUPPOANALISI VISTA MARE
I Gruppi esperienziali
Antonio d’Angiò
capitolo VII
CONCLUSIONE GENERALE… E IL BISOGNO DI INTERROGARSI
Antonio d’Angiò

"En mitad del camino de la Pandemia me decia en sueños la Pitia oscura que el psicoánalisis sus paradigmas cambiar debería (parafraseando al Dante y al mito de Edipo", capitulo en el libro "EL VIRUS MUTA...NOSOTROS ¿ MUTAMOS?" editado por Hilda Catz

Libro "EL VIRUS MUTA...NOSOTROS ¿ MUTAMOS?", 2021

La apocalíptica Pandemia del Covid 19 nos enfrenta a las pulsiones más primitivas que impone el a... more La apocalíptica Pandemia del Covid 19 nos enfrenta a las pulsiones más primitivas que impone el aislamiento, el darwinismo de una crisis sanitaria en el siglo XXI y sus consecuencias como trauma individual, social y colectivo. Esta Serie de libros son el resultado de un intenso intercambio entre colegas psicoanalistas del país y del exterior realizado a partir de decretarse la Cuarentena, respetando la diversidad de enfoques teóricos, en un intento de ir enfrentando la Pandemia con proyectos colectivos como decía Pichón Riviêre. Así fueron surgiendo: Tomo 1: “Psicoanálisis de Niños y Adolescentes, Trabajando en cuarentena en tiempos de la Pandemia”. Tomo 2: ”Trabajando en cuarentena y en la post-cuarentena en épocas de Pandemia, transformaciones e invariancias”. Tomo 3: “Las Redes de lo Humano, lo Humano de las Redes” Trabajando en Cuarentena y en la Post-Cuarentena. Tomo 4: “La Pandemia y después…, una mirada psicoanalítica” Tomo 5: “El virus muta…¿nosotros mutamos?. Una mirada psicoanalítica”. Todos los libros editados por Ricardo Vergara Ediciones.

Book "MY IDEAS FELT LIKE OUTSIZE CLOTHES. A tale for Etty Hillesum" by Giuseppe Leo

Two female protagonists, Etty and Helena, carry out a rescue plan seventy years apart, each one i... more Two female protagonists, Etty and Helena, carry out a rescue plan seventy years apart, each one in a very different historical context but having one thing in common: both of them saved children, victims of genocide (in the case of Etty who saves two Jewish boys from Westerbork camp), or of civil war (in the case of Helena who smuggles a baby out of Syria). A mysterious researcher investigates the fil rouge existing between the two stories of salvation. Little by little he finds that the story of one of the boys rescued by Etty is interwoven with Helena’s biography.

ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS AND PANDEMIC. A CHALLENGE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS

by giuseppe leo, Anna Ferruta, and Nancy McWilliams

Contemporary psychoanalysis has recently made a “paradigm shift” consisting of dealing with the ... more Contemporary psychoanalysis has recently made a “paradigm shift” consisting of dealing with the discontents of civilizations emerging from the extension of the explicative dominion of psychoanalysis not only in the direction of social and political phenomena, but also in that of understanding the impact of environmental and ecological issues on the human psyche. New paradigms need new concepts such as the term “pandemic discontent”, contained in the present book. The concept of “pandemic discontents” refers to Freud’s “Civilization and its Discontents” in order to focus on those anthropological mutations, including the expansion of technologies and the mutations of ecology, which represent irreversible fractures which have shifted a part of humanity in the face of the fragility of the social and cultural structures on which, as Kaës writes, the permanence of a civilization is based, or even the human species itself. And dealing with the discontents of civilizations leads psychoanalysis to a challenge which has not yet been completely assimilated, i.e. to measure up to the social dynamics and no longer only the intra-psychic ones, and to think of these changes as ‘extra-psychic conditions’, as Kaës defines them, which provide a framework or a setting for the formation of the psychic apparatus, for the forms of subjectivity that derive from them and for the sufferings they have produced. After the foreword written by Robert D. Stolorow, “Planet Earth. Crumbling Metaphysical Illusion”, and the introduction written by the editor, Giuseppe Leo, the section “Psychoanalysis in Pandemic Times” (writings by Nancy McWilliams, Anna Ferruta, Hilda Catz, Giuseppe Riefolo, Merav Roth, and Cosimo Schinaia) concerns how to applyanalysis to the Covid-19 crisis (psychoanalysis as a tool for interpretation of the pandemic crisis at various levels, individual, social, political) but also how to practice analysis under the Covid-19 pandemic (dealing with the conditions under which the practise of psychoanalysis is possible in such an unprecedented global context). The section “When the psychoanalyst is the patient” contains the memoir written by Pietro Roberto Goisis, a Milan-based psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who survived the coronavirus. In this pandemic both analyst and patient have to deal with a dangerous external reality, with the supplementary task for therapist of helping the patient face his/her internal jeopardy. Finally in the section “Psychoanalysis and Climate Change” there is the chapter written by Marco Francesconi and Daniela Scotto di Fasano.

Livre "PSYCHANALYSE, LIEUX DE MÉMOIRE ET TRAUMATISMES COLLECTIFS"

by giuseppe leo, Silvia Amati Sas, and Anne Loncan

L’identité, tant dans sa dimension individuelle que collective, semble une construction et élabor... more L’identité, tant dans sa dimension individuelle que collective, semble une construction et élaboration continue de mémoires qui sont accueillies dans des lieux qui, en tant que espaces où aller dans un va-et-vient, parcourent les vies des hommes pendant toute la durée. Se retrouver dans les lieux de sa propre mémoire semble une manière originale de traiter le sujet de l’”id-entité”; mais à ce point il faut tout d’abord le circonscrire: en introduisant un tiret, il faut prendre en considération le “id” (le ça), c’est à dire la dimension inconsciente de l’id-entité. Et donc, ce sont la psychanalyse, comme pensée sur l’inconscient, et les psychanalystes à qui on peut poser la question: “Peut la psychanalyse nous aider à comprendre ce dialogue entre lieux de mémoire et id-entité?”. Cette question s’inspire de deux différentes sources: l’importance des ‘biographies de l’inconscient’, ainsi que celle du partage de la mémoire, voire celle de l’acte de se souvenir, pour qu’elle maintienne sa significativité. L’historiographie est certes une revisitation critique du passé, aspirant à une image totale de celui-ci. Elle n’est pas sélective comme le sont les souvenirs personnels, sans avoir complètement le caractère de la fixité et de l’immutabilité psychopathologique qui ont les souvenirs traumatiques. Toutefois, ce qu’est irremplaçable dans l’acte de se souvenir, et en particulier dans celui de “se souvenir ensemble”, est la configuration d’un climat émotionnel unique, on dirait empathique, parfois même ambivalent. La communauté affective provoquée par l’acte de “se souvenir ensemble” devient symbolique d’un groupe donné car il se constitue à travers des personnes qui ont developpés chacune un itinéraire de différentes histoires individuelles au cours du temps, mais qui à ce moment-là réussissent à se reconnaître et à se réunir. Bien sûr parler de mémoire signifie aussi se mesurer avec le problème de l’usage que un certain groupe, détenteur d’un pouvoir politique ou économique, peut faire d’une telle mémoire. Combien de monuments aux seigneurs des guerres balkaniques célèbrent des mémoires collectives qui en réalité sont à ce jour fonctionnelles d’intérêts en jeu de certains groupes sociaux?! Cette vision dynamique et conflictuelle des mémoires collectives est susceptible, elle seule, d’ouvrir un débat sur les responsabilités de la mémoire, en définissant le rapport avec le passé en terme d’une élaboration collective, étroitement liée à la perception sociale des phénomènes actuels problématiques tels que ceux des identités collectives (identité de genre, ethnique, nationale ou locale) ou du préjudice vers les groupes ‘autres’. Ce livre est dédiè à la mémoire de Predrag Matvejević, un historien et écrivain qui a consacré beaucoup de ses œuvres à la Méditerranée, mais qui était aussi très intéressé à la psychanalyse.

Book PSICOANALISI E LUOGHI DELLA MEMORIA

by giuseppe leo and René Kaës

Il libro inaugura una collana che vorrebbe porre la psicoanalisi ai due poli di una riflessione "... more Il libro inaugura una collana che vorrebbe porre la psicoanalisi ai due poli di una riflessione "al confine" tra psicologia e sociologia, tra psicoterapia degli individui e dei gruppi e clinica delle psicopatologie sociali. Questo libro raccoglie saggi, scritti da psicoanalisti ed esperti in ambito internazionale, distribuiti nelle seguenti cinque sezioni: la psicoanalisi e i disagi delle civiltà mediterranee; psicoanalisi, trauma e trasmissione transgenerazionale; i disagi delle civiltà medio-orientali; psicoanalisi, memoria ed arte; la vergogna e il transfert.

Book FEAR OF LOCKDOWN. PSYCHOANALYSIS, PANDEMIC DISCONTENTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE

by giuseppe leo and Cosimo Schinaia

Contemporary psychoanalysis has recently made a “paradigm shift” consisting of dealing with the ... more Contemporary psychoanalysis has recently made a “paradigm shift” consisting of dealing with the discontents of civilizations emerging from the extension of the explicative dominion of psychoanalysis not only in the direction of social and political phenomena, but also in that of understanding the impact of environmental and ecological issues on the human psyche. New paradigms need new concepts such as the term “pandemic discontent”, contained in the title of the present book. The concept of “pandemic discontents” refers to Freud’s “Civilization and its Discontents” in order to focus on those anthropological mutations, including the expansion of technologies and the mutations of ecology, which represent irreversible fractures which have shifted a part of humanity in the face of the fragility of the social and cultural structures on which, as Kaës writes, the permanence of a civilization is based, or even the human species itself. And dealing with the discontents of civilizations leads psychoanalysis to a challenge which has not yet been completely assimilated, i.e. to measure up to the social dynamics and no longer only the intra-psychic ones, and to think of these changes as ‘extra-psychic conditions’, as Kaës defines them, which provide a framework or a setting for the formation of the psychic apparatus, for the forms of subjectivity that derive from them and for the sufferings they have produced.
After the foreword written by Nancy McWilliams, "Psychotherapy in a Pandemic", written during lockdown in NY and dealing with therapists' feelings during online consultations, after the introduction written by the editor, Giuseppe Leo, the section “Psychoanalysis in Pandemic Times” (writings by Anna Ferruta, Hilda Catz, Giuseppe Riefolo, Merav Roth, and Cosimo Schinaia) concerns how to apply analysis to the Covid-19 crisis (psychoanalysis as a tool for interpretation of the pandemic crisis at various levels, individual, social, political) but also how to practice analysis under the Covid-19 pandemic (dealing with the conditions under which the practise of psychoanalysis is possible in such an unprecedented global context). The section “When the psychoanalyst is the patient” contains the memoir written by Pietro Roberto Goisis, a Milan-based psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who survived the coronavirus. In this pandemic both analyst and patient have to deal with a dangerous external reality, with the supplementary task for therapist of helping the patient face his/her internal jeopardy. Finally in the section “Psychoanalysis and Climate Change” there is the chapter written by Marco Francesconi and Daniela Scotto di Fasano.

.

Book "ROCK MUSIC AND PSYCHOANALYSIS" by L. Aron, H. Ferguson, J. LeDoux, G. Leo, R. Tweedy

Frenis Zero publishing house, 2020

PRESENTATION: Many books deal with this subject, but not so many are written by analysts (such as... more PRESENTATION: Many books deal with this subject, but not so many are written by analysts (such as Lewis Aron and Heather Ferguson) who play rock or pop music. Psychoanalysis and psychoanalysts have multi-layered identities. With regards to psychoanalysts, on one side, the discover that some of the most famous of them play (or even compose) music evokes several question: how their musical practice influences their therapeutic work? How their learning music and psychoanalytic training have been interlaced? How the evolution of their clinical theorisations has gone together with their reflection about music and

Révélation. Journal en quête d'un signe à balayer

Présentation: Pourquoi ce titre? Pourquoi cette collection de poèmes voudrait “balayer” tout sign... more Présentation: Pourquoi ce titre? Pourquoi cette collection de poèmes voudrait “balayer” tout signe? Ces questions renvoyent à la nature même de la poésie qui, comme tous les arts "en mouvement" (Stern, 2010), musique, dance, théâtre et cinéma, exprime les formes de la vitalité de façon relativement pure, car les arts amplifient et réitèrent plusieurs fois ce qui se passe dans notre vie relationnelle ordinaire. Dès la naissance même de toute vie, de toute relation à partir de la dyade mère-bébé. Dans les toutes premières communications du bébé face à sa mère, les formes de vitalité sont les "patterns” temporels qui caractérisent la "notation musicale du temps sur la partition” des échanges entre les deux partenaires: crescendo, decrescendo, etc). Au tout début de la vie, ces affects sont "amodaux” et "transmodaux”: ils constituent le ”comment”, la façon "musicale" sur lesquels se déploie l’échange affectif entre mère et bebé avec la possibilité d’une transmutation d’une modalité sensorielle à une autre. La poésie, comme la musique, a une triple constitution: elle est rythmicité (donnée par les affects de la vitalité), tonalité (donnée par les affects catégoriels, par exemple joie, tristesse, peur, etc) et textualité (la narration avec la sémantique, la syntaxe, la pragmatique du language verbal et symbolique), les deux premières appartenant aux dimensions sous-verbales du psychisme (Knoblauch, 2011). La nature sous-verbale de la rythmicité et de la tonalité renvoie à la composition multiple du soi. Dans le développement du soi, il n’y a pas une séquence de phases ou étapes (comme la psychanalyse traditionnellement l’envisageait) mais un enrichissement progressif de "modes d’être avec autrui": sens du Soi-émergeant (0-2 mois), sens du Soi-noyau (de 2 ou 3 mois à 7 ou 9 mois), sens du Soi-subjectif (de 7 ou 9 mois à 15 mois), sens du Soi-verbal (à partir de 15 mois) et enfin, sens du Soi-narratif (de 3 ans) (Stern, 1997). Les dimensions amodales et musicales sous-verbales du Soi prédominent dans les premiers trois sens du Soi, tandis que l’avènement du Soi-verbal introduit une scission de l’expérience de soi: le language verbal n’est pas capable de maîtriser l’expérience d’une façon globale car il fait des distinctions nettes, et il est maladroit à souligner les gradations affectives (en comparaison avec la gestualité). En plus, le language verbal privilégie la codification dans la mémoire affective des épisodes relationnels généralisés plutôt que garder la singularité des moments présents (Stern, 2003). La poésie essaie de surmonter ce “schisme” dont Stern (1997) parlait (mais aussi Lacan bien que différemment), en conjuguant la musicalité amodale des sens du Soi pré-verbaux et le language verbal (avec la parole et la narration). Dans “Un monde dans un grain de sable”, j’ai composé un poème en cinq parties, chacune correspondant à un différent sens du Soi. Toutes ces parties s’inspirent du même scénario, comme si un enfant-poète en décrirait différents aspects selon le sens du Soi qui prévaut. Par exemple, dans la première partie, celle correspondant au Soi émergeant, il n’y a aucun ‘moi’ et ‘toi’ car dans ce sens-là, le monde est expérimenté comme sensations corporelles sans aucune distinction entre un sujet et un objet, un “moi” et un “autre”. Mais comme l’avénement du language verbal permet à l’enfant de sortir du monde dyadique qu’il partage avec son “caregiver” et d’accéder à celui culturel, pareillement la fonction de la poésie permet d’élargir les significations de l’object primaire d’inspiration au monde plus vaste où elle se réfère aux questions éternelles qui concernent le genre humain. Giuseppe Leo

Book "ENACTMENT IN PSYCHOANALYSIS" by E. Ginot, J. Greenberg, J. Safran, G. Leo & G. Riefolo (EDS)

ISBN 978-88-97479-15-4, 2019

The book is dedicated to Jeremy Safran and Lewis Aron, whose recent loss drove the editors as we... more The book is dedicated to Jeremy Safran and Lewis Aron, whose recent loss drove the editors as well as the publisher to gather these contributions about enactment, a topic to whom Safran and Aron devoted many papers of theirs. As Safran wrote, though problematic and source of confusion among different psychoanalytic approaches, the epistemological status of psychoanalysis, related to its condition of ‘liminality’, is a meaningful source of vitality for the discipline. The book explores the subject of enactment in relation to boundaries in psychoanalysis, referring to a series of viewpoints that lead to many crucial areas. From an intra-psychic point of view, enactment can be studied at the between internal and external (world), psyche and soma, psychic apparatuses (first topic) and ‘provinces’ (second topic), primary and secondary process, perception and representation, representation and affect, Ego and object, subject and object (included the concept of ‘transitional space’ by Winnicott). At this level we have to consider that many authors who have take into account very profoundly enactment are those who questioned the linearity of classical Freudian topics (the continuity between unconscious, preconscious and conscious, interrupted only by repression and negation), considering dissociation as a key mechanism apter in order to reflect and account for a discontinuous model of psyche (Bromberg, 2014). From an inter-psychic point of view, enactment can be explored in relation to the concept of intersubjectivity and ‘the third’ (Aron, 2006; Benjamin, 2004) to indicate the functioning that affects the entire analytic pair at work. At this level we can place all the theories on boundaries of the analytic setting and the whole clinics of their violations. From an intra-disciplinary point of view (inside of psychoanalysis), enactment can be considered according to different currents of contemporary psychoanalytic thought. From an inter-disciplinary point of view, enactment can be viewed as a ‘bridge’ concept between psychoanalysis and the other ‘confining’ disciplines, especially psychiatry but also infant research and neuroscience. Moreover, it is to be added an inter-cultural point of view, from which enactment can be considered as a transitional concept allowing to enlight cultural counter-transference phenomena in transcultural clinical setting. Finally, from a trans-generational point of view, studies on the transmission of traumatic conditions across generations (Bohleber, 2007; Faimberg, 2005) can demonstrate that enactments may cross disregard the boundaries between generations that are also places of links and largely unconscious narcissistic pacts (Aulagnier, 1975; Kaës, 2005).

INFANT RESEARCH AND PSYCHOANALYSIS

Collection BORDERS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS, 2018

This book has the hard task to cover an interdisciplinary area in which psychoanalysis has to dea... more This book has the hard task to cover an interdisciplinary area in which psychoanalysis has to deal with infant research. The development of infant research methodologies is illustrated in the present book by the contribution written by Beatrice Beebe, whose ‘journey’ leads us through the ‘creating’ of a discipline with its creators, her traveling companions, such as Daniel Stern, Frank Lachmann, Joseph Jaffe and many others. Trevarthen’s chapter is a discussion of his work with T. Berry Brazelton, passed away on March 2018. Brazelton used his trust and enjoyment of innocent company to greet a newborn infant as a friend, and he showed that the baby is read to share friendship with mother and father, giving them joy. Brazelton’s belief in innate human nature transformed pediatric care and early diagnosis of developmental disorders, guiding treatment, not ‘of’ the baby, but ‘with’ him/her as an individual with unique expressions of vitality. The last two chapters, instead, deal with clinical implications of infant research. Tronick’s contribution focuses on mother-infant dyad as well as on analyst-patient one, conceived as open dynamic systems, capable of meaning making, in which coherence is at best imperfect, and coordination alternates with mismatching. In open dynamic systems messiness itself is inherent to the process of meaning making because of limitations in their capacity, «their different time scales, the many polymorphs of meaning that have to be integrated, and because of the many kinds of meaning making processes» (including affective, cognitive, memorial, linguistic, bodily and psychodynamic meaning making processes, such as a dynamic unconscious, projective identification and transference). «Dyadic states of consciousness» Tronick writes in the chapter «are joint creations and, as such, bring together the messy, unpredictable and inchoate features of two individuals’ state of consciousness, not just the messiness of one». But meaning meaning processes and security making ones, though normally overlapping each other, are not the same, and this heterogeneity between motivational systems (Lichtenberg et al., 2011) can cover the heterogeneity of psychopathological conditions. Lyons-Ruth and colleagues’
chapter is focused on the representational world of the mother, particularly on the assessment of mother’s representation of role-confusion in her relation with her child. The authors call attention to the dimension of sexualisation in the relationship, a high indicator of role-confusion. This emerging body of work points to the importance of being alert to indicators of role-confusion in the clinical setting. The findings can inform and enrich counselling and psychology practice by familiarizing clinicians with how to listen for indicators of role-confusion while talking with parents about their relationship with the child.

A CHIARA. Recensione del film di Jonas Carpignano

Frenis Zero on-line, 2021

La recensione, partendo dal personaggio di Chiara, esplora alcuni aspetti psicoanalitici dell'ado... more

"DISSOCIATION, SYMBIOSIS AND AMBIGUITY IN THE MOVIE BEANPOLE (2019)"

Frenis Zero online journal, 2020

Review of the movie "BEANPOLE" (2019) by Kantermir Balagov

Editorial of the Frenis Zero psychoanalytic journal "PSYCHOANALYSIS IN AN AGE OF EMPIRICAL VALIDATION"

Frenis Zero psychoanalytic journal, 2020

In this last number of our journal we published some papers sharing one common concern: in a situ... more In this last number of our journal we published some papers sharing one common concern: in a situation in which psychoanalysis risks to suffer for a relative isolation from other psychotherapeutic approach and <<methodological links to biology, psychology and psychiatry, and, above all, lacking in sufficient empirical research to support the efficacy of psychoanalytic treatment>> (J. P. Jimenez, 2012, in "Psychoanalysis and its Borders, edited by G. Leo, p.127), we have to spread a psychoanalytic literature not solely based on hermeneutic principles, but open to confining fields of science (neuroscience, Infant Research, etc.) in order to strengthen "the evidence base of psychoanalysis" in accordance with which psychoanalysis <<should (...) develop closer links with alternative data gathering methods available in modern social and biological science>> (Fonagy et al., 1999, in Fonagy, Kaechele, Krause, Jones, Perron, "An open door review of outcome studies in psychoanalysis: Report prepared by the Research Committee of the IPA at the request of the President, University College, London, p.45).

LOVE IN OPERA. A critical review of two operas, "Rinaldo" by Haendel and "Giulietta e Romeo" by Vaccaj

Frenis Zero psychoanalytic online journal, 2019

On the occasion of the 44th Festival della Valle d'Itria some reflections about love in Baroque a... more

Recensione del film "CAPRI-REVOLUTION" di Mario Martone

Frenis Zero online journal, 2018

Recensione del film "CAPRI-REVOLUTION" di Mario Martone

Recensione del film "Lontano da qui" di Sara Colangelo

Frenis Zero online journal , 2019

Recensione del film "Lontano da qui" (USA, 2018) di Sara Colangelo

TOUCH ME NOT by Adina Pintilie. Review by Giuseppe Leo

Frenis Zero online journal , 2019

Review in Italian of the movie made in 2018 by Adina Pintilie.

Borderlines in Current Cinema

Frenis Zero online journal , 2019

Review of some of the movies in competition presented in the 20th European Film Festival (Lecce, ... more

Recensione/ Review AUTONOMIA SESSUALE E SINTONIZZAZIONE NEI FILM "GIRL" E "DISOBEDIENCE" ("Sexual Autonomy and Attunement in movies "Girl" and "Disobedience")

Frenis Zero psychoanalytic on-line journal, 2018

The review, concerning the movies "Disobedience" by Sebastiàn lelio, and "Girl" by Lukas Dhont, a... more The review, concerning the movies "Disobedience" by Sebastiàn lelio, and "Girl" by Lukas Dhont, allows to explore cinematographic language, according to an "infant research" perspective, specifically exploring how cinematographic language can show vitality forms (Stern, 2010) and present moment (Stern, 2004).

IDENTITA' DI GENERE E VITALITA' DEL SE' NEL FILM "ZEN SUL GHIACCIO SOTTILE" (Gender Identity and Self Vitality in the movie "Zen in the Ice Rift")

Frenis Zero on-line psychoanalytic journal, 2018

Following a previous movie review (concerning "Disobedience" by Sebastiàn lelio, and "Girl" by Lu... more

Evolutionary Neuro-psychoanalysis

Frenis Zero psychoanalytic on-line journal, 2006

Special articles published in Frenis Zero psychoanalytic publishing house concerning psychoanalys... more Special articles published in Frenis Zero psychoanalytic publishing house concerning psychoanalysis and the dialogue with neuroscience, developmental psychopathology and intersubjectivity. Summary: Editorial by Giuseppe Leo, "LA MOLTEPLICITA' CONDIVISA: Dai neuroni specchio alle relazioni interpersonali" by Vittorio Gallese, "For a dialogue between psychoanalysis and neuroscience"(Italian translation) by Franco Scalzone, "Projective identifi cation and consciousness alteration" by Cristiana Cimino and Antonello Correale, ""Memoria, inconscio e funzioni terapeutiche: la psicoanalisi in dialogo con le neuroscienze" by Mauro Mancia, "Mourning and melancholia revisited: correspondences between principles of Freudian metapsychology and empirical findings in neuropsychiatry" (Italian translation) by Robin L Carhart-Harris, Helen S Mayberg, Andrea L Malizia and David Nutt, "Does any aspect of mind survive brain damage that typically leads to a persistent vegetative state? Ethical considerations" (Italian translation)by Jaak Panksepp, Thomas Fuchs, Victor Abella Garcia and Adam Lesiak, "Psychodynamic psychiatry’s green shoots"(Italian translation) by Jeremy Holmes,

Psychoanalysis and Research

Frenis Zero psychoanalytic on-line journal , 2011

Special number (n.16, june 2011) of Frenis Zero psychoanalytic on-line journal , concerning Psych... more Special number (n.16, june 2011) of Frenis Zero psychoanalytic on-line journal , concerning Psychoanalysis and Research. Summary: Editorial by Giuseppe Leo, "CONTEMPORARY CONTROVERSIAL DISCUSSIONS, INTERSUBJECTIVITY AND THE FUTURE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS" by Helmut Thomä, "Biographical truths and their clinical consequences: understanding 'embodied memories' in a third psychoanalysis with a traumatized patient recovered from severe poliomyelitis" (Italian translation) by Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, "Meaning creation and dyadic expansion of consciousness model" (Italian translation) by Ed Tronick, "A metapsychological formulation" (Italian translation) by Harry M. Anderson.

Psychoanalysis, research and neuroscience

by giuseppe leo and Mirela Vlastelica

Frenis Zero psychoanalytic on-line journal, 2013

Special number (n. 20, june 2013) of Frenis Zero psychoanalytic on-line journal concerning "Psych... more Special number (n. 20, june 2013) of Frenis Zero psychoanalytic on-line journal concerning "Psychoanalysis, research and neuroscience". Summary: Editorial by Giuseppe Leo, "Improving mood with psychoanalytic and cognitive therapies (IMPACT): a pragmatic effectiveness superiority trial to investigate whether specialised psychological treatment reduces the risk for relapse in adolescents with moderate to severe unipolar depression: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial" (Italian translation) by Ian M Goodyer, Sonya Tsancheva, Sarah Byford, Bernadka Dubicka, Jonathan Hill, Raphael Kelvin, Shirley Reynolds, Christopher Roberts, Robert Senior, John Suckling, Paul Wilkinson, Mary Target and Peter Fonagy, "First-Person Neuroscience: A new methodological approach for linking mental and neuronal states" (Italian translation) by Georg Northoff and Alexander Heinzel, "Group analytic psychotherapy (im)possibilities to research" (Italian translation) by Mirela Vlastelica.

Research in Psychoanalysis

Frenis Zero psychoanalytic on-line journal , 2016

Special number (n.26, june 2016) in Frenis Zero psychoanalytic on-line journal , concerning "Rese... more Special number (n.26, june 2016) in Frenis Zero psychoanalytic on-line journal , concerning "Research in psychoanalysis". Summary: Editorial by Giuseppe Leo, "Where is the Evidence for“Evidence-Based” Therapy?" (Italian translation) by Jonathan Shedler, "Neurobiology and psychotherapy" (Italian translation) by Gerhard Schüßler .

Psychoanalysis and Infant Research

Frenis Zero psychoanalytic on-line journal, 2017

Special number (Number 27, XIV, January 2017) of Frenis Zero psychoanalytic on-line journal ( h... more Special number (Number 27, XIV, January 2017) of Frenis Zero psychoanalytic on-line journal ( http://web.tiscali.it/freniszero ) concerning "Psychoanalysis and Infant Research". Summary: Editorial by Giuseppe Leo, "MOTIVATION, INTENTIONALITY AND INTERSUBJECTIVITY IN NEONATAL AND INFANT BEHAVIOR" by Colwyn Trevarthen, "ROLE-CONFUSION IN PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIPS" by Lauriane Vulliez-Coady, Elisabet Solheim, Jeremy P. Nahum, Karlen Lyons-Ruth, "THE PARENT-INFANT DYAD AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SUBJECTIVE SELF" by Peter Fonagy , George Gergely , Mary Target .

Psychoanalysis and Resiliency

by giuseppe leo and Stela Araujo-Cabral

Frenis Zero psychoanalytic on-line journal, 2014

Special numbers (n.22 and n.23) of Frenis Zero psychoanalytic on-line journal ( http://web.tiscal... more Special numbers (n.22 and n.23) of Frenis Zero psychoanalytic on-line journal ( http://web.tiscali.it/freniszero ), concerning "Psychoanalysis and Resiliency". In the summary: Editorial by Giuseppe Leo, "Mental health and resiliency following 44 months of terrorism: a survey of an Israeli national representative sample"(translated into Italian) by Avi Bleich, Marc Gelkopf, Yuval Melamed, Zahava Solomon, "Resilience and vulnerability among refugee children of traumatized and non-traumatized parents" (Italian translation) by Atia Daud, Britt af Klinteberg e Per-Anders Rydelius, "Adolescents' veil"(Italian translation) by Marie Rose Moro, "Refugees and psychological trauma" by Renos Papadopoulos, "A contribution of resiliency to psychoanalytic clinics" by Gabriel Artur Marra e Rosa, "Resiliency and psychoanalysis" by Stela Araùjo Cabral and Daniela Centenaro Levandowski

Pazienti con infezione HIV e disagio psicologico del personale sanitario

Il vaso di Pandora, 1995

"E' meglio non illudersi!". Dipendenza e narcisismo nella depressione adolescenziale

Nuovi quaderni di psicoanalisi e psicodramma analitico, 2007

Psicologia dello sviluppo e valutazione dell'attendibilità testimoniale

Nuovi Quaderni di Psicoanalisi e Psicodramma Analitico , 2005

EIDOS. Cinema, psyche e arti visive., 2017

Recensione in chiave psicoanalitica del film "Elle" di Verhoeven (2016). Review, according a psyc... more

ENACTMENT OF MUSICAL LISTENING IN PSYCHOANALYSIS

Frenis Zero online journal, 2019

Starting from the clinical vignette of a consultation with a Syrian female refugee, the author pr... more Starting from the clinical vignette of a consultation with a Syrian female refugee, the author presented some considerations about enactment considered as the expression of a dyadic improvisation and actualization of shared transference-countertransference memories, mediated by implicit relational knowledge of the two partners. The improvisation can be metaphorically viewed as provided of musicality patterns.

LOVE IN OPERA. A critical review of two operas, "Rinaldo" by Haendel and "Giulietta e Romeo" by Vaccaj. Review by Giuseppe Leo

Frenis Zero online journal , 2019

"LOVE IN OPERA" A review of two operas in the 44th Festival della Valle d'Itria (Martina Franca)

" MOURNING IN THE HOLOCAUST. Etty Hillesum's therapy diary in the light of Infant Research "

Etty Hillesum was a resourceful and intelligent woman who began writing a serious journal of self... more Etty Hillesum was a resourceful and intelligent woman who began writing a serious journal of self-discovery at the age of 26. She also had an amateur's interest in psychology. The circumstances under which she began to write, however, were profoundly different. As a Jew in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam in 1941-42, Hillesum was living under a steadily increasing threat of individual and communal annihilation. She died two and a half years after she began her journal, a victim of the Holocaust. Her journals were not published until 1981.
It is well known that Etty Hillesum was a patient and student of the Jungian therapist and hand reader Julius Spier, and that she became his secretary and lover as well. As Spier’s patient, Hillesum was having private, therapeutic consultations with him; as his student, she participated in the course of “psychochirology”, the lessons Spier offered in which he taught others how to analyze hands; and as his secretary, she typed out the letters Spier dictated to her, and took notes during group sessions and private sessions of those who had their hands studied. Moreover, Hillesum read the diary notes of individuals who were having a series of sessions with the hand-reading psychotherapist, and talked with him about patients.
In spite of the fact that nowadays we could hardly recognize that Spier’s “treatment” can be considered as a genuine psychotherapy, provided with any basic requisite for it (a well-established set of rules, codified and assessed by Scientific Societies, respectful of patient’s privacy and dignity), the relationship between Etty and Spier tuned out to be positive for Etty’s self-confidence and regulation of negative affects. The paper will argue which “therapeutic” factors worked in the relationship between Etty and Spier in the light of the concepts of the five Senses of Self (Stern, 1985), forms of vitality (Stern, 2010) and present moment (Stern, 2004), by analyzing a single entry of Etty’s diary, just the first one: a sort of subjective report of her early impact with Spier’s personality. This way of analyzing therapy diaries is consistent with Stern’s perspective of “the world in a grain of sand” (Stern, 2004).

REFERENCES
Leo, G. (Editor) (2018), Infant Research and Psychoanalysis, writings by Beatrice Beebe, Karlen Lyons-Ruth, Colwyn Trevarthen, Edward Tronick and others, Frenis Zero, Lecce (Italy).
Stern, D. (1985), The Interpersonal World of the Infant: A View from Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psychology, Basic Books, New York.

Stern, D. (2004), The Present Moment in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life, W. W. Norton & Company, New York.

Stern, D. (2010), Forms of Vitality. Exploring Dynamic Experience in Psychology, the Arts, Psychotherapy, and Development, Oxford University
Press, Oxford.

PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PLACES OF COLLECTIVE MEMORIES OF MEDITERRANEAN CIVILIZATIONS’ DISCONTENTS

PROJECT OF CONFERENCE IN EATGA INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS - "The unexplored places of Transcultural G... more PROJECT OF CONFERENCE IN EATGA INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS - "The unexplored places of Transcultural Group Analysis between large multicultural groups, catastrophes and new subjectivities" (Ischia, May 4-5, 2018)

Abstract: A place of memory can be defined as a point of narrative crystallization of the collective memory (Binder, 2001), a place that can be material (such as a monument), symbolic (an anniversary, a pilgrimage) and functional (such as an autobiography) in which a group can recognize itself as well as its own story (Binder, 2001). Identity, both in its individual and collective dimensions, seems to us a continuous construction and elaboration of memories which are welcomed in places which, like spaces to return to in a continuous to-ing and fro-ing, run through the whole lives of men. Looking for oneself in the places of one’s own memory seems an original way of treating the subject of id-entity, but at this point we have to make a first limitation of the subject: by introducing a hyphen, we have to take into consideration the ‘Id’, the unconscious dimension of the identity. Psychoanalysis, as thought on the unconscious, and psychoanalysts, whom we can ask “Can psychoanalysis help us understand this dialogue between places of the memory and id-entity?”, make their entrance here. This question sprang from two different sources of inspiration (that are to be discussed in my talk): the importance of the ‘biographies of the unconscious’ (as one of the books by Salomon Resnik is entitled) (Resnik, 2006) as well as of sharing, so that memory, or rather remembering, keeps its significance.

REFERENCES

ALTOUNIAN, J. (2015), “Survivors’ hands. Witnesses to the annihilation of the living and the affirmation of life”, in Giuseppe D. Leo, Psychoanalysis, Collective Traumas, and Memory Places,Frenis Zero Press, Lecce (Italy).

ASSMANN., J. (2001), “Halbwachs Maurice”, in Gedächtnis und Erinnerung. Ein interdisziplinäres Lexikon, N. Pethes & J. Ruchatz (Eds.), Rowohlt, Reinbek.

AULAGNIER, P. (1975), La violence de l’interprétation, Du pictogramme à l’énoncé, PUF, Paris. English translation, The Violence of Interpretation. From pictogram to statement, edited by S. Budd, Taylor & Francis, Philadelphia, 2001.

BINDER, B. (2001), “Place of memory”, in Gedächtnis und Erinnerung. Ein interdisziplinäres Lexikon, N. Pethes & J. Ruchatz (Eds.), Rowohlt, Reinbek.

BOHLEBER, W. (2007), "Remembrance, trauma and collective memory", International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 88, pp.329-352.

BOHLEBER, W. (2015), “Civilization, man-made disaster and collective memory”, in Giuseppe D. Leo (Ed.), Psychoanalysis, Collective Traumas, and Memory Places,Frenis Zero Press, Lecce (Italy).

BOLL, F. (2003) Sprechen als Last und Befreiung. Holocaust-Überlebende und politisch Verfolgte zweier Diktaturen. Ein Beitrag zur deutsch-deutschen Erinnerungskultur, Dietz, Bonn.

DEUTSCH, J. (2015), “Psychoanalytic thoughts on Israel and the siege of Gaza”, in Giuseppe D. Leo (Editor), Psychoanalysis, Collective Traumas, and Memory Places, Frenis Zero Press, Lecce (Italy).

FERRARIO, E., FONTANA, F. (2006), Testimoniare, Lithos, Rome.

FREUD, S. (1915), Thoughts for the Times on War and Death, in Standard Edition, vol. 14, Hogarth Press, London 1950-1974.

––––– , S. (1920), Beyond the Pleasure Principle, in Standard Edition, vol. 18, Hogarth Press, London 1950-1974.

––––– , S. (1921), Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, in Standard Edition, vol. 18, Hogarth Press, London 1950-1974.

––––– , S. (1929), Civilization and its Discontents, in Standard Edition, vol. 21, Hogarth Press, London 1950-1974.

––––– , S. (1938), Anti-Semitism in England, in Standard Edition, vol. 23, Hogarth Press, London 1950-1974.

GAMPEL, Y. (2015), “Psychoanalytic reflections about middle East crisis”, in Giuseppe D. Leo (Editor), Psychoanalysis, Collective Traumas, and Memory Places,Frenis Zero Press, Lecce (Italy).

GRANDE, T. (2001), Introduction, in Halbwachs, M., La memoria collettiva, Unicopli, Milan.

HALBERSTADT-FREUD, H. (2015), “Split loyalties of third generation children of Nazi’s”, in Giuseppe D. Leo (Editor), Psychoanalysis, Collective Traumas, and Memory Places,Frenis Zero Press, Lecce (Italy).

HALBWACHS, M. (1941), La topographie légendaire des Évangiles en Terre Sainte. Étude de mémoire collective, PUF, Paris.

–––––, M. (1950), La mémoire collective, posthumous work published by Jeanne Alexandre, PUF, Paris. English translation, The Collective Memory, Harper and Row, New York 1980. Cf. also for the Italian edition La memoria collettiva, Unicopli, Milano 2001.

HINSHELWOOD, D. R. (2015), Preface, in Giuseppe D. Leo (Editor), Psychoanalysis, Collective Traumas, and Memory Places,Frenis Zero Press, Lecce (Italy).

JANIGRO, N. (2015), “Mutating landscapes. From peace to war, from war to peace”, in Giuseppe D. Leo (Editor), Psychoanalysis, Collective Traumas, and Memory Places, Frenis Zero Press, Lecce (Italy).

KAËS, R. (2007) “Gender and generation. Order and disorder in identifications”, lecture given at the S.P.I. Congress in Rome in 2007.

LEO, G. D. (Editor) (2015), Psychoanalysis, Collective Traumas, and Memory Places, Prefaced by Robert Hinshelwood, writings by J. ALTOUNIAN, W. BOHLEBER, J. DEUTSCH,Y. GAMPEL, H. HALBERSTADT-FREUD,N. JANIGRO,G. LEO, R. K. PAPADOPOULOS, M. RITTER, S. VARVIN, H.-J. WIRTH, Frenis Zero Press, Lecce (Italy).

LEO, G. D. (Editor) (2017), Fundamentalism and Psychoanalysis, Prefaced by Vamik Volkan, writings by Lene Auestad, Werner Bohleber, Sverre Varvin, Linden West, Frenis Zero Press, Lecce (Italy).

MUSATTI, C. (1989), Introduction to vol. 8 of the Opere (Freud's Works), Bollati Boringhieri, Turin.

PAPADOPOULOS, R. K. (2015), “Refugees and psychological trauma”, in Giuseppe D. Leo (Editor), Psychoanalysis, Collective Traumas, and Memory Places,Frenis Zero Press, Lecce (Italy).

PUGET, J. (2007) “State Terror and Psychoanalysis”, in Frenis Zero psychoanalytic journal, n. 8, June 2007 (in Italian).

RESNIK, S. (2006), Biographie de l’inconscient, Dunod, Paris.

RITTER, M. (2015), “Return to Dresden”, in Giuseppe D. Leo (Editor), Psychoanalysis, Collective Traumas, and Memory Places,Frenis Zero Press, Lecce (Italy).

SEMI, A. (2004), personal communication.

SERRES, M. (2003), L’incandescent, Le Pommier, Paris.

SOSSI, F. (2006), Migrare, Il Saggiatore, Milan.

VARVIN, S. (2015), “Trauma and resilience”, in Giuseppe D. Leo (Editor), Psychoanalysis, Collective Traumas, and Memory Places, Frenis Zero Press, Lecce (Italy).

WIRTH, H.-J. (2015), “Remembering, repeating and not working through: on the interactability of the Palestinian Israeli conflict”, in Giuseppe D. Leo (Editor), Psychoanalysis, Collective Traumas, and Memory Places, Frenis Zero Press, Lecce (Italy).

REFUGEES, PSYCHOSOMATIC SUFFERING AND RESILIENCY

The theme of the resilience in refugees is developped following Renos Papadopoulos's Grid. Despit... more The theme of the resilience in refugees is developped following Renos Papadopoulos's Grid. Despite the devastating qualities of adverse events, in terms of pain, disorientation, losses, people may still experience that the very traumatic disruption hasn’t prejudiced their own ability to reshuffle and review their lives, re-examining priorities and meanings, to imbue them with renewed perspectives. Mental health professionals tend to consider refugees as being traumatized and in need of specialized treatments (psychotherapy, psychopharmacology, etc..), which, of course, may be true, but not in the totality of cases.

Immigrati extracomunitari quali utenti dei Servizi Psichiatrici di una grande città del Sud Italia

Metropoli e oltre, equilibri e scompensi : atti del 4. Congresso nazionale dell Società italiana di psichiatria sociale : Trieste, 25-27 febbraio 1994 / a cura di Eugenio Aguglia, Elisabetta Pascolo, 1995

Sul delirio dell’amor proprio. Prevenzione e trattamento del suicidio nella trattatistica medica tra ‘700 e ‘800

Aggressività e disperazione nelle condotte suicidarie, 1998

ENACTMENTS AND THEIR BORDERS

Conference presented at the 19th IARPP congress in Valencia (Spain) on June 15, 2023.

“Adolescenti: nuovi sviluppi in psicoterapia e neuroscienze”

Talk held in the congress "“La complessità degli interventi clinici in psichiatria” (Brindisi, Dec. 11, 2015), 2015

Occuparsi di esordi psicotici significa non solo fare i conti con una clinica del vuoto, come que... more Occuparsi di esordi psicotici significa non solo fare i conti con una clinica del vuoto, come quello che ci viene in mente colloquiando con Marta, una clinica in cui i sintomi non si manifestano già preformati in sindromi codificate, ma con la dimensione evolutiva della psichiatria. La psichiatria evolutiva continuerà ad essere trascurata finché psichiatria dell'adolescenza e psichiatria dell'età adulta continueranno ad essere innaturalmente tra loro dissociate. Una, la psichiatria dell'adolescenza deve occuparsi quotidianamente dell'incerto confine tra funzioni psicologiche in fieri e disfunzioni psicopatologiche mai date per scontato, l'altra la psichiatria degli adulti (in particolare dei giovani adulti) in cui oramai diamo per scontato un po' troppo che quei sintomi, di cui spesso non ci poniamo il significato in termini evolutivi, hanno raggiunto una loro stabilità morfologica, come se fossero catene montuose oramai definitivamente strutturate (e forse invalicabili). Ma le catene montuose ce l'abbiamo nella nostra mente.
Una psichiatria evolutiva, facendoci cogliere le transizioni tra le configurazioni sintomatologiche, ci aiuta anche a concepire che la psichiatria è una anziché due. E' solo una questione di metodo se le "due" psichiatrie lavorano in modo così diverso.

What does underlie psychodynamic mechanisms? Holism versus Localizationism

Talk presented at the 15th Annual Congress of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society "Current Neuropsychoanalytic Research" (NEW YORK, 24-27 JULY 2014), 2014

Paralleling psychodynamic mechanisms and neuropsysiological processes and searching for consisten... more Paralleling psychodynamic mechanisms and neuropsysiological processes and searching for consistencies in these correlates may have great implications for the manner in which psychoanalysis is viewed by the wider psychological and psychiatric communities. On the neuroscientific side, the use of techniques like fMRI is indeed guided by the search for the localization of particular function in specific regions of the brain: furthermore, localizationism is supported by the studies searching for localization of cognitive functions in patients with brain lesions.

Recensione del libro USCIRE dall' INSOPPORTABILE. Culture e pratiche di psichiatria de-istituzionale nel Nordest Italia

Il termine "insopportabile", nel titolo del volume, evoca un'analogia estrema tra i manicomi e i ... more Il termine "insopportabile", nel titolo del volume, evoca un'analogia estrema tra i manicomi e i campi di concentramento spesso usata per dire che gli ospedali psichiatrici non potevano essere migliorati, riformati, ma soltanto aboliti. I contributi di Marco Conci, John Foot, Patrizia Guarnieri, Paolo Migone, Paolo Peloso e Giovanna Vicarelli parlano degli anni sessanta e settanta del Novecento e di quanti presero a denunciare gli orrori delle strutture di ricovero per malati. Costoro appartenevano a una generazione in cui agivano ancora l'esperienza concreta diretta o indiretta del fascismo, del nazismo, della reclusione e della deportazione, ma anche il peso del silenzio da cui le sofferenze più insostenibili, la colpa e la vergogna erano coperte. Tutto ciò non poteva più essere tollerato. Occorreva cambiare. Il volume è incentrato sull'area Nordest dell'Italia, dove si ebbero le esperienze antimanicomiali di punta a Gorizia e Trieste, e anche una variegata sperimentazione non solo basagliana.

RECENSIONE di Amati Sas S. (2020). Ambiguità, conformismo e adattamento alla violenza sociale. Milano: Franco Angeli; pp. 220

Educazione Sentimentale. Rivista di psicosocioanalisi, 2020

Educazione sentimentale 33, 2020 2 RECENSIONE di Amati Sas S. (2020). Ambiguità, conformismo e ad... more Educazione sentimentale 33, 2020 2 RECENSIONE di Amati Sas S. (2020). Ambiguità, conformismo e adattamento alla violenza sociale. Milano: Franco Angeli; pp. 220; € 30,00 In occasione dell'uscita del libro Ambiguità, conformismo e adattamento alla violenza sociale, che purtroppo ha coinciso con l'esplosione della pandemia del Covid-19, ho voluto sentire telefonicamente l'autrice per sincerarmi innanzitutto che stesse bene. Pur mediata dall'apparecchio telefonico la sua voce conservava quell'energia, direi quella forza di espressione, che mi ha confortato non poco sulle sue condizioni di salute. In quella telefonata mi ha accennato pure qualcosa su un parallelo tra il tema dell'"adattamento a qualsiasi cosa" ed il confinamento che tutta l'Italia, e di lì a poco tutto il mondo stava per subire. Coglievo in quell'accostamento quella passione politica che nei suoi scritti si tramutava ora in sdegno in difesa dei più svantaggiati (non solo i migranti) ora in un invito più pacato a ragionare per nessi, nessi tra l'intra-psichico e il sociale, all'interno di quell'ambito di ricerche al confine tra molte discipline delle scienze umane che solo pochi analisti come lei (la Puget, Kaes, per citarne altri due) hanno avuto il coraggio di esplorare. Ora, durante quella telefonata non ho avuto l'ardire di chiederle delucidazioni su quel suo accennare all'"adattamento a qualsiasi cosa" nella pandemia: dentro di me ho pensato "forse come Agamben vuole dirmi che questo chiudere i cittadini in casa, pur per sacrosanti motivi di salute pubblica, sta facendo correre qualche rischio alla nostra partecipazione democratica alla politica". Ma poi leggendo il suo libro e riflettendo in questi due mesi di lockdown, scosso anche dal senso di impotenza che ho dovuto affrontare come psichiatra nel servizio pubblico nel non poter seguire se non telefonicamente i pazienti (di cui uno si è suicidato senza nessun "preavviso"), credo di aver realizzato qualcosa sulla capacità che il pensiero di Silvia Amati Sas, un pensiero che come dimostra il libro, abbraccia oltre quaranta anni, ci parla ancora oggi con quella luminosità e chiarezza di concetti in grado di far luce sulla drammatica attualità che stiamo vivendo. Scriverò alla fine di questa recensione le conclusioni a cui sono arrivato.

Recensione del libro di Stefano Bolognini "Flussi vitali tra Sé e Non-Sé"

Frenis Zero psychoanalytic online journal, 2020

"LA VERGOGNA COME ANTIDOTO AL SENTIMENTO DI CORRUTTIBILITA'"

Frenis Zero online journal , 2020

Recensione del libro di Silvia Amati Sas "Ambiguità, conformismo e adattamento alla violenza soci... more

Recensione di "Enactment. Parola e azione in psicoanalisi" (2018) a cura di Paolo Boccara, Giovanni Meterangelis e Giuseppe Riefolo.

Frenis Zero online journal, 2019

Recensione del libro "Enactment. Parola e azione in psicoanalisi" (2018) a cura di Paolo Boccara,... more

Recensione del film "Styx" di Wolfgang Fischer

Frenis Zero online journal , 2019

Il film riguarda una serie di dilemmi morali e deontologici che interessano una dottoressa in nav... more

Review / Recensione film "Nome di donna" (2018)

Frenis Zero, 2018

#METOO PRIMA DI #METOO Il film “Nome di Donna” di Marco Tullio Giordana ha fatto molto discut... more #METOO PRIMA DI #METOO

Il film “Nome di Donna” di Marco Tullio Giordana ha fatto molto discutere di sé in quanto è stato girato ed è stato ultimato pochi mmesi prima dell’esplosione del fenomeno #meToo, dopo che una serie di attrici aveva accusato di molestie sessuali il produttore hollywoodiano Weinstein. Non vorrei soffermarmi sugli aspetti più squisitamente cinematografici del film (regia, interpretazione attoriale su cui si distacca la protagonista, impersonata da Cristina Capotondi): non vorrei scrivere insomma una vera e propria recensione cinematografica. Vorrei invece enfatizzare il modo in cui il film ci aiuti a capire il fenomeno delle molestie sessuali sulle donne nei luoghi di lavoro attraverso dei punti, degli “ingredienti” che sono necessari e basilari perché la società civile fronteggi questo grave problema sociale e culturale. Tali punti mi è sembrato di individuarli nell’ordine seguente, ordine che va dagli “ingredienti” più basilari a quelli più sofisticati e complessi:

1) Condizione che ci sia una società civile vera e propria;

2) Condizione che l’informazione possa circolare anche in maniera bottom-up;

3) Il ruolo bio-politico (già sottolineato da Foucault) delle informazioni relative alla privacy dei cittadini;

4) Il ruolo del perdono.

Review/Recensione di "Come cura la psicoanalisi?"

Frenis Zero, 2006

"Come cura la psicoanalisi?", a cura di Giuseppe Berti Ceroni, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2005, euro ... more

Review/Recensione ""La guerra dentro. La psichiatria italiana tra fascismo e resistenza (1922-1945)"

Frenis Zero, 2008

Paolo F. Peloso "La guerra dentro. La psichiatria italiana tra fascismo e resistenza (1922-1945)"... more

Review/Recensione: "Plasticità del cervello adolescente"

Frenis Zero, 2015

Review/Recensione "PSICONALISI E SCHIZOFRENIA. Un quadro in divenire "

Frenis Zero

Review/Recensione: AUTENTICITA' E RECIPROCITA'

Frenis Zero, 2017

"Hannah and Forms of Vitality"

Frenis Zero, 2018

A. Pallaoro's film "Hannah", through the main character, played by Ch Rampling, can help us to ex... more

Review/Recensione Film "IL COLORE NASCOSTO DELLE COSE"/ "The hidden color of things"

Frenis Zero, 2017

Review/Recensione: "PSICOANALISI E FEDE: un discorso aperto"

Frenis Zero, 2017

Review/recensione Film "Corpo e anima"(2017)/Body and Soul di/by I. Enyedi

Frenis Zero, 2018