Lessons will be organized in a way to have a theoretical theme on Fridays and a clinical application session on Saturdays with respect to the theoretical theme dealt with on Friday. In some lessons we will have direct and indirect testimonies on clinical cases and treatment methods.
 

Innovative models of care among the following areas:

Treating subjects with Western pathologies (anorexia, bulimia or contemporary pathologies) and the treatment of subjects belonging to other cultures.

Psychoanalysis and mentalization, points of contact for MBT group therapies.

Developing skills on therapies for families, and for adolescents, both indivual sessions and in groups: making a diagnosis of family distress, psychiatric distress and cultural distress.

Transgenerational grid, learning guiedlines of the grid and clinical applications

To develop orientational skills in communities and institutions with an understanding of the mental phenomena of groups and their transpersonal and institutional dimension.

It may be possible to experience the group as a model of care and interpretation of its dynamics.

Provide method of working on clinical work, integration and processing of trauma through the multigroup field in institutions or in private setting.

Starting and building groups, their maintenance and analysis of the multigroup field. The aim of the course is to help the student to take on basic elements of group theories, techniques and dynamics to use them in institutional and innovative contexts, public and private, health or school.

Use of online techniques and changes in group technique using an online tool.

Integrating arts and culture to classic therapies, methods with a focus on how to elaborate trauma through creativity. Imaginative meditation and use of reverie

Develop skills on therapies from other cultures mainly in the treatment of foreigners: shamanic disorders and sacred disorders: relations between religions and therapies

Skills development for therapies starting from cultural objects in non-Western ethnic groups patients.

First step: the course covers the history of ethnopsychiatry, considering the different levels of study and care in organic solidarity societies (primitive societies) and sectoral functional societies (Western models), to better understand contemporary Western pathologies (e.g. anorexia, bulimia, addictions and disfunctional ties), trying to identify expressive differences of pathologies in other cultural spheres.

Absence of real parents (family crisis) and social parents. The family crisis, the transgenerational grid, the care of adolescents. 8 hours. The absence of guilt for violence, cold case related.

Work with adoptions: original and current culture

First 4 days of lesson. 

Second step: the migratory journey and the connected psychic sufferings are studied; the problem of abandoned minors and the problem of integration as a model for the psyche. Relationships between culture, systems of care and expression of discomfort. The care institutions and the mind of the psychological worker immersed in them as a starting point to carry out an experience with the unknown, with the strangeness and with the need to place it in group settings. Concept of group and ethnic group. Communities and institutions: working methods. Understanding group phenomena can, on the one hand, explain the mechanisms of birth and development of contemporary diseases (anorexia, self-destruction, etc.) but also open to the understanding of the evolution of ethnic groups, ethnic disorders, group and individual diseases and to group trauma. Trauma, virus as an invisible enemy, isolation, Covid experiences; models of treatment of foreign patients in Italy and abroad. Death in the West, death in other cultures and death in current conflicts. The relationship with death in different contexts, and the relationship with pain as an element of study, 8 hours, four days of lessons.

Third step: Concept of ethnic disturbance, organization of containers (family, social, cultural) and their relationship with the individual. Relationship between cultures and diseases. Provide methods of working on clinical work, integration and processing of trauma through the multigroup field, examples and testimonies. Peoples at war, mass migrations, psychopathology of the migrant condition. War, destructiveness and methods to stem destructiveness in clinical work. Psychoanalysis and mentalization, points of contact for MBT group therapies.

The existential key points, birth, contact, growth, separation, mourning and relationship: ways in which different cultures fill these passages. Individual, family and social tools. Hence also the study of authoritarian figures and the difference between political paranoia and clinical paranoia, starting with the anatomy of human destructiveness.

The study of the destructiveness between the individual (individual patient care) and the group (group destructiveness) as the roots of war phenomena. destructiveness and wars between the western and eastern world. The eastern and western suicide bombers, 8 hours,  four days of lessons.

Fourth step: Integrating arts and culture to classic therapies: how to elaborate trauma through creativity. Skills development for therapies starting from cultural objects on non-Western ethnic groups; individual defenses vs social defenses; social issues with a psychic departure; relationship between abused environment, waste and mother-child relationship, between Italy and abroad. The area of ​​care groups and cultural groups, their union and clinical and social methodology.

Oservable contexts, capacity development in patients with their transformation. in cultural operators,

Mass addiction and sudden brake on the use of mass drugs; concept of death; the trauma of normality; concept of extended mind, mental contagion, common head and contagion from reality

12 hours, six days of. lessons

Photographic laboratory inside the course, 4 hours.

WORKSHOP ON THE PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE

Through images: photography as a language and therapeutic tool

The photographic image laboratory is divided along two lines: the relationship between photography and psychology in their intertwining and the therapeutic use of the photographic image alongside other means of expression, investigation and communication with the patient, such as speech and observation.

• The centrality of visual culture

• Thinking and narrating in images

• Seeing reality or looking at the invisible?

• The many meanings of the photography you curate

• Photography and the unconscious

Photography in art therapy and psychotherapy: Photolangage © ️ and PhotoTherapy Techniques

Photography in the digital age and its implications for Photo Therapy and Therapeutic Photography

The importance of photography in the group (cultural and therapeutic) dimension

Photography in a multi-ethnic community of adolescent patients with psychiatric distress: an experience.
 

Social Psychology, English.

1- In relation to teaching the student must show possession : - to have mastered the knowledge of specialized disciplines ; - The understanding of the advanced concepts of the discipline ; - The ability to use knowledge and concepts to think independently on the issues of the discipline .

In relation to teaching, the student must show skills on  Knowledge and understanding, relating to the fundamental themes of the course, eg. the relation between psychopathology and culture. · Applied knowledge and understanding, ie the understanding of clinical applications related to the topics presented in class. · Autonomy of judgment, ie the possibility of supporting one's own work thesis and clinical hypothesis. · Communication skills, realization of a sufficiently managed exposition as a comprehensibility of the speech. · Ability to learn; ability to learn from the experience of lessons and workshops - the mastery of the knowledge of the specialized disciplines; that is, the integration of various specialist disciplines encountered in the course of studies and lessons. - understanding of the advanced concepts of the discipline; these concepts are the group as a working setting, the contemporary discomfort pathologies and cultural manifestations- the ability to use knowledge and concepts to reason independently on the issues of the discipline. Provide examples of clinical reports or clinical opinions , or report independently on authors or topics.

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

Besides to the study texts (see below), the main support activity consists in participating in the photographic laboratory described in Program  Information, as well as being able to connect online team working with patients or to participate to direct observation of patients and operators in the community

Group experiences will be made with examples of research into other models of life, organization of daily life that questions the relationship between economic and social processes with clinical repercussions, in groups (organized, non-formal and informal) and communities.

The relationship with the place of residence and its landscape identity will be rethought (the themes of the environment, cultural heritage, historical memory). Psychological sustainability.

The course material will be integrated  with group activities or with articles from magazines relevant to the matter . 

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Different  languages witnesses.

Teaching

Attendance is recommended as in class the topics can be transmitted through experiential groups, where learning is integrated with  methods of meeting and getting to know the group. Subdivision into small groups, with subsequent general restitution to a complete group. Integration with multidisciplinary seminars. Possible visit and participation in institutions. Presence of cultural mediators and operators of structures for foreigners.

Possible seminars integrated with other courses.

Listening to student proposals

It' will be possible to help foreign students to disclose their ideas related to  Erasmus experiences

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Innovative teaching methods

Attendance

recommended for the experiential nature of the course

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Course books

For english language students the course book are different from italian language ones, in order to have papers or books in english

G. Devereux, Ethnopychiatry, (chapters 1,2,3,4,5); 100 pages, Karnac books london 1980

AAVV: N.34 (2015) – Group psychotherapy and border areas of contemporary psychiatry, Presentation Funzionegammajournal (www.funzionegamma.it), Università la Sapienza Roma. (versione  italiana e  inglese) first  5 chapters - free download

http://www.argo-onlus.it/la-rivista/, edited by M. Ringer , english version (the paper written by Francesco Comelli) first 40 pages, free download

https://www.argo-onlus.it/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/argo-rivista-n-4-curadiliviocomin.pdf first 40 pages, free download

Non mandatory books 

Cianconi P. Addio ai confini del mondo , Franco Angeli ed (libro su post modernità)

Lemma A. Sotto la pelle , Cortina ed. (Psicoanalisi delle modificazioni corporee)

Levine P. Trauma e memoria, Astrolabio ed. (relaz traumi e memoria)

Assessment

Oral exam on the topics of the course mainly dealt with in class, but the opportunities for attendance and intervention in class will help to improve the final evaluation. In the middle of the course, evaluation of the progress of learning.

Examples, monographs, case histories are accepted

topics on blended and topics given by proposed exercises

· Less than 18: insufficient level of competence. The candidate does not achieve any of the learning outcomes provided for in the point "knowledge and understanding",

18-20: sufficient level of competence. The candidate achieves the learning outcomes envisaged in the point "knowledge and understanding",

21-23: fully sufficient level of competence. The candidate achieves the learning outcomes envisaged in the points "knowledge and understanding" and "applied knowledge and understanding",

24-26: good level of competence. The candidate achieves the learning outcomes envisaged in the points "knowledge and understanding"; "applied knowledge and understanding" and "independent judgment",

27-29: very good level of competence. The candidate achieves the learning outcomes envisaged in the points "knowledge and understanding", "applied knowledge and understanding", "independent judgment" and "communication skills",

30 and 30 cum laude: excellent level of competence. The candidate fully achieves the learning outcomes envisaged in the points "knowledge and understanding"; "applied knowledge and understanding"; "autonomy of judgment"; "communication skills" and "ability to learn".

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

Teaching

The adherence to the themes proposed on the texts will be evaluated, which will necessarily be more widespread than those attending as the richness of the direct transmission of the concepts increases the training possibilities.

The choice not to attend implies an integration of the texts and the evaluation of the clinical skills related to the course.

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Attendance

For non-attending students it is necessary to integrate with the bilbiography reported here, which is different from attending students.

Course books

G. Devereux, Ethnopychiatry, (chapters 1,2,3); 70 pages, Karnac books london 1980

AAVV: N.34 (2015) – Group psychotherapy and border areas of contemporary psychiatry, Presentation Funzionegammajournal (www.funzionegamma.it), Università la Sapienza Roma. (versione  italiana e  inglese) first  5 chapters - free download

Nathan , Stengers I. Doctors and Healers . Free press ed

http://www.argo-onlus.it/la-rivista/, edited by M. Ringer , english version (the paper written by Francesco Comelli) first 40 pages, free download

https://www.argo-onlus.it/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/argo-rivista-n-4-curadiliviocomin.pdf first 40 pages, free download

Omogenietà e differenze , a cura di Martin Ringer autori

Autori: Richard Morgan-Jones, Barry Jones, Rob Gordon, Martin Ringer, Robert Hinshelwood, Mario Perini, Rosealeen Tamaki, Robert French, Peter Simpson, Silvia Corbella, Francesco Comelli. http://www.argo-onlus.it/la-rivista/, at  least five  papers 

Assessment

oral exam on the texts indicated.

themes of contemporary psychopathology. psychopathological relations \ culture.

issues from blended service

Outcome of the exam

· Less than 18: insufficient level of competence. The candidate does not achieve any of the learning outcomes provided for in the point "knowledge and understanding", 18-20: sufficient level of competence. The candidate achieves the learning outcomes provided for in the point "knowledge and understanding", 21-23: fully sufficient level of competence. The candidate achieves the learning outcomes envisaged in the points "knowledge and understanding" and "applied knowledge and understanding", 24-26: good level of competence. The candidate achieves the learning outcomes envisaged in the points "knowledge and understanding"; "applied knowledge and understanding" and "independent judgment", 27-29: very good level of competence. The candidate achieves the learning outcomes envisaged in the points "knowledge and understanding", "applied knowledge and understanding", "independent judgment" and "communication skills", 30 and 30 cum laude: excellent level of competence. The candidate fully achieves the learning outcomes envisaged in the points "knowledge and understanding"; "applied knowledge and understanding"; "autonomy of judgment"; "communication skills" and "ability to learn".

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

Suggestions or issues linked with personal experiences that are consistent with the course are welcome, as well as proposals for activities to the group of students.

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