Papers by Gabriele Cassullo
Clínica e investigación relacional, Feb 14, 2010
Rivista Di Psicoanalisi, 2020
This work recounts our Zoom meetings held during the months of Covid-19 lockdown and born in orde... more This work recounts our Zoom meetings held during the months of Covid-19 lockdown and born in order to promote «camp» reflections on the state of emergency we were experiencing. The paragraphs describe the various themes emerging from the meetings: 1) the traumatic specificity of the Covid-19 emergency;2) remote working;3) symmetry, asymmetry, and reality;4) borders, boundaries, and new scenarios;5) the psychoanalytic institution, the emergency, and the aftermath;6) final reflections on group writing. © 2020, Raffaello Cortina Editore. All rights reserved.
International Forum of Psychoanalysis
The American Journal of Psychoanalysis
Rediscovering Pierre Janet, 2019
De Boeck Supérieur eBooks, Oct 12, 2021
International Forum of Psychoanalysis
De Boeck Supérieur eBooks, Oct 12, 2021
American Imago, 2010
Thus article discusses several ideas of the Scottish psychiatrist Ian D. Suttie concerning childh... more Thus article discusses several ideas of the Scottish psychiatrist Ian D. Suttie concerning childhood and the nature of mental suffering. Suttie is seen as the prototype of a British Independent psychoanalyst because he combined a thorough knowledge of Freudian theory with a "structure of feeling" grounded in both British psychology and the Hungarian psychoanalytic tradition originating with Ferenczi. The author also highlights how a number of prominent contemporaries in psychology and psychiatry, including William McDougall and W. H. R. Rivers, played a significant role in the development of such a "structure of feeling" in British psychoanalysis.
The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2010
This article aims to outline, in brief, the life and work of Charles Rycroft. He had been one of ... more This article aims to outline, in brief, the life and work of Charles Rycroft. He had been one of the brilliant and fecund psychoanalysts of the second half of the Twentieth century, although his legacy has unfortunately often been neglected. The author suggests that this might have been because of his withdrawal from the British Psychoanalytic Society, which made him, in many ways, "invisible" to his own colleagues and that continues even today-more than ten years after his death-to preclude a real recognition of his personal and original clinical thinking and working style.
The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 2021
I have long been interested in integrating the development of theories regarding psychic trauma a... more I have long been interested in integrating the development of theories regarding psychic trauma and interweaving them with classical conflict theory. For this reason, I have followed the S andor Ferenczi revival, which started about thirty-five years ago. The emotions regarding Ferenczi have frequently been extreme—positive or negative, either demonizing or worshiping him. On the negative side, Ferenczi’s name has been used to justify esoteric, unorthodox practices in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, laying him open to criticism. But he has also been highly admired by some for his original contributions to psychoanalysis and by others as an early rebel against Freud; further, publication of the Freud-Ferenczi correspondence unveiled the centrality of their friendship in the development of the field (more about this in what follows). The reader of Ferenczi’s Influence on Contemporary Psychoanalytic Traditions can absorb the best Ferenczi scholarship over these last thirtyfive years, depicting this range of responses. Useful as a source book or a teaching tool, the book also points readers toward original sources cited by the authors of the individual chapters, serving as a valuable repository of primary data. The volume is organized in four parts, starting with a biographical/ historical section, followed by a section on Ferenczi’s clinical contributions. The third section delves into his influence on major psychoanalytic thinkers who followed him, such as Melanie Klein, Harry Stack
PSICOTERAPIA E SCIENZE UMANE
Che cosa ha condotto gli psicoanalisti a quella che Howard Levine (2021) definisce "una scon... more Che cosa ha condotto gli psicoanalisti a quella che Howard Levine (2021) definisce "una sconcertante opposizione binaria" fra le teorie del conflitto e le teorie del trauma evolutivo? Viene tratteggiata l'ipotesi che alla radice della divaricazione fra queste diverse mentalità cliniche vi sia un "trauma originario", un trauma che non può mai pervenire a una piena e definiva figurazione: un trauma irrappresentabile. Tale trauma ha costituito la cesura che da un lato ha prodotto un progresso sul piano intellettuale (nella storia della psicoanalisi, la nascita della teoria psicoanalitica della fantasia inconscia), ma al prezzo del prodursi di una mancanza su un altro piano concernente lo sviluppo di una capacità affettiva, prima che intellettiva, di ascolto della traumaticità insita nelle comunicazioni del paziente.
Rediscovering Pierre Janet, 2019
In this article we would like to propose some points contributing to a reflection on the fundamen... more In this article we would like to propose some points contributing to a reflection on the fundamental characteristics of Clinical Psychology and to participate in the debate, never resolved, on the essential dimensions of the training necessary for its practice. The boundaries which define the framework of our discussion on certain aspects of the fundamentals of Clinical Psychology can be synthesized by the following points: The key reference to the importance of personal experience and subjectivity in clinical practice, on both the part of the patient and the part of the psychologist; the related concepts of specificity, recognition and encounter of specificities; The undeniable importance of the clinician’s person, and the real relational matrix peculiar both of the evaluation situation and treatment; The developmental perspective which animates clinical comprehension and subsequent intervention (comprehension which understands patients starting from their history and which aims to...
Journal of Psychology & Psychotherapy, 2015
The Authors outline the history of the systematization of psychoanalytic therapy and report on th... more The Authors outline the history of the systematization of psychoanalytic therapy and report on the recent development of a new Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy protocol for depression and anxiety disorders.
American journal of psychoanalysis, 2016
Compared to the impact of the work of Melanie Klein on the history of psychoanalysis, the contrib... more Compared to the impact of the work of Melanie Klein on the history of psychoanalysis, the contributions of her daughter, Melitta Schmideberg, passed almost unnoticed. At present, Schmideberg is solely remembered for having harshly attacked her mother at the start of the Controversial Discussions of the British Psycho-Analytical Society and for having coined the fitting expression "stable instability" in order to describe borderline and asocial personality disorders. However, the author discusses how the early groundbreaking discoveries of Klein with regards to primitive anxieties were the result of the joint work and thinking of Melanie and Melitta. Moreover, he argues that the conflict between the two, along with the subsequent polarization of their views, did not facilitate the development of psychoanalysis, neither did it help the analytic community to recognize the value of Melitta's contributions to psychoanalysis.
La vita di Michael Jackson da un punto di vista psicologico NoN disturbate il piccolo Michael PSI... more La vita di Michael Jackson da un punto di vista psicologico NoN disturbate il piccolo Michael PSICOLOGIA CLINICA E STORIA
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