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Cult and dissolution of bodies: anorexia in the works by Hieronimus Bosch
Bosch portrays in an extraordinarily and powerful way the considerations about the ubiquitous, omnipotent and banned...
The Consequences of Violence Within The Family. The Care of The Suffering Infant
To enable us to orientate ourselves in the topic that has been proposed to me today and, in other words, the...
The Father: Ambassador of the Reality
I would like to say a big thank you to the organisers of this important study day for inviting me to give a...
The Oedipus: Organiser of The Human Psychism
(Abstract of the Talk held by the Author at the Free Association “Convivium” in Ferentino, the 17th October 2015) You...
Group and Intensive Psychoanalysis
The intensive psychoanalysis is a method of investigation of the human psychism of a Freudian derivation, which thus...
Heartache and Music. 3 – The Freezing
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Heartache and Music. 2 – The vanity of possession and the Don Giovanni Syndrome
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The Psychoanalysis of Aggressiveness
(An abstract taken from the relation given by the Author at the Congress “Essere donna oggi: Tra stalking, molestie e...
Heartache and Music. 1 – Introduction
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The Narcissism of The Digital Era: From The ‘Ophelia Phenomenon’ to The Selfie
The arrival of the digital era and the continuous interconnection realised by the social network have provoked a deep...
The Influence of the Perverse Ground in Borderline Syndromes
Abstract taken from the report presented at the Congress " Un Genitore quasi perfetto: Funzione genitoriale tra...
Pregnancy and loneliness: psychobiological implications
Can we talk about loneliness of the fetus or loneliness experiences related to pregnancy and birth? As we are a...
The early mother-child interactions
The psychobiological relationship between the mother and the fetus is the topic of the session that the Italian...
The ‘Radeca’ festival: some psychoanalytic considerations on Carnival
(from the talk given at the 26th CONVIVIUM, Fiuggi, February 9th, 2013) The following considerations came out from the...
Anorexia and Bulimia: clinic psychoanalysis
(Abstract taken from the report presented at the Congress “The Weight of Emotions: Functional Food and Non-functional...
Sleep, dream and neurosciences
Translated by Concetta Violante The subject I am on the point of discussing presents a very wide interdisciplinary...
The Psychoanalysis of Solitude
Solitude is one of the most painful feelings that the human being can experience in his life. It could be judged more...
Oedipus: Anthropomorphic Representation of The Vital Conflict
The Oedipus myth, even though in different versions and forms, is a myth common to the world's populations and for...
Time and The Unconscious
The first contact, which the patient experiences towards the notion of Time, in the new dimension which he is...
Person-Centered Approach in the Medicine of Organ Transplants
Organ transplants relative to the serious pathologies of many organs have already been part of the clinical practise...
The Mystery of Dreams
(Abstract of the Talk held by the Author at the Free Association “Convivium” in Fiuggi, the 6th December 2011) During...
The Psychodynamic Bases of Eating Disorders
In the far 1953 Professor James McConnell, psychologist at the University of Michigan, started his experiments on the...
Are We All Hybrids?
(translated by Julia Stern) In the visual arts, from early times to the present day, alongside the faithful...
The Sense of Guilt From Success (part 1)
An abstract of the report expounded from the Author during the 2nd Intensive Meeting of Psychoanalysis held in Fiuggi...
The Sense of Guilt From Success (part 2)
(An abstract of the report expounded from the Author during the 2nd Intensive Meeting of Psychoanalysis held in Fiuggi...
The Psychology of Facebook
In this article I would like to collect some of the reflections that I’ve been making during these last months after...
Well-being Creativity
Presentation at the XVIII SIPE International Congress, “Creative Transformation”, Belfast, 6th -9th September 2006 In...
The profound interactions between food and psychic: the celiac disease
Kind friends, When I was asked to give my contribution to this interesting conference dedicated to the celiac disease...
Primary experiences realization into the transference Vs counter-transference relation
S. Freud interest towards experiences dating back to always more faraway periods of man life, gradually increased as...
Projective Identification in Object Relations
Introduction Projected identification is considered as the main focus of Klein’s theory of early infant development...
Psyche and Dance. 1 – The Function of Expressive Movement
The verbal language takes place in an already advanced stage of the psychic-motor development of the human being...
Mac versus Windows: psychopathology of daily informatics
I have been using a computer for more than twenty years (the first one was the unforgettable Commodore 64): I use a...
The perverse barbarization of Italy
Because of his job, a psychoanalyst comes into continuous contact with human suffering. The sincerity that necessarily...
The intrauterine war: The hypotheses of micropsychoanalysis are confirmed by the evolutionary biology
Some history One of the greatest difficulties which are met by professionals who practise psychoanalysis is that the...
Delusion, Dream and Hallucination: an Interpretation of Jensen’s “Gradiva”
As is well known, in Jensen's Gradiva, which passionated Freud so much 1, the protagonist, the archeologist Norbert...
If this is love… (The torment of the incestuous fixation)
I believe that whoever deals with psychotherapy and psychoanalysis will have verified that the themes, which mainly...
Human Sexuality, Impotence and Frigidity. Psychodynamics Scheme
In the western countries more and more men and women find the sexual act a source of concern instead of pleasure: The...
Cancer and psyche: between scientific intervention and position of omnipotence
In the last decades there has been a lot of talk about the possible psychosomatic origin of many morbid forms and,...
The Creationist Delusion
In this brief Newsletter I would like to signal to the readers of "Science and Psychoanalysis" a wonderful article...
Fantasies and Perversion
(An abstract of the report expounded from the Author during the XXXVIII National Congress of the Italian Society of...
Psychoanalysis: Brief Handbook
In society, I have often listened to people who talk about their 'would-be' psychoanalytic experiences with...
The Exaltation of The Delinquent
Murderers, rapists, torturers and serial killers are the new television stars. To them is owed an attention, a...
The dream: phylogenetic memory of the cybernetic model of the mind
An abstract taken from the report presented by the Author at the Congress “Alle Origini del Sogno” held at Frosinone...
Frigidity and The Drive For Mastery
The drive for mastery is one of the least defined in psychoanalysis. As we can read in the Laplanche-Pontalis manual...
BETWEEN SOMA AND PSYCHE: the polyhedric problem of transplanted organs
The complex surgical operation of transplanting organs distinguishes itself from any other operation for the...
The Mnemonist: Mr. Serasevskij and The Psychoanalysis
In Aleksandr Romanovic Lurija's beautiful work, dedicated to the Mnemonist Serasevskij's case, the brief closing...
Fictitious-Ego and Delirious-Ego in the Genesis of Psychotic Disturbance
To penetrate the heart of the matter, considering the brief time available, we should arm ourselves with some...
The Seven Deadly Sins
Summary of the Speach “Omeopathy: Lesson on the seven capital sins” , Cervaro (Fr) dic 14th 2002. I Shall try to...
Trauma, Memory and Cybernetic Structure of The Mind
The progress in informatics is a fascinating phenomenon, which deserves to be studied from different angles rather...
Weeping
(Translated by Concetta Violante) Weeping is the new-born man’s first expressive modality. At birth the first...
The Lost Son
It is a common perceptive experience that in all living species stronger and weaker individuals exist: this fact is in...
Foetus life and psychobiological destiny
Translated by Bruna Marzi Since 1972, thanks to Nicola Peluffo’s, professor of Dynamic Psychology at the University of...
Positive and Negative Suggestion in Medicine
Who of us has not spent one of those typical evenings, usually in summer, during our infancy or adolescence, in which...
Penguins and Children
Some months ago I was remarkably shocked by the vision of a television program which documented the enormous...
Reflections on the “Five copybooks” of Marie Bonaparte
Who works in psychoanalysis, cannot certainly ignore who was Marie Bonaparte, if only for the fundamental role that...
Psychoanalysis, Homeopathy and the Rejection of the Imponderable
The word “Medicine” derives from the latin word medicus, from mederi (= to cure) which derives from an Indo-European...
Hypochondria: a somatic paranoia
Hypochondria seems to be an unexplored galaxy in the psychoanalytic world: there isnt’ a definition in the...
Dream and Telepathy
The present work constituted an official report in the interdisciplinary Conference “Sogno & psicopatologia"...
Drug Addiction and Family Sufferance
Because of his job, a psychoanalyst comes into continuous contact with human suffering and the privileged observatory...