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Per un approccio dinamico allo studio del processo terapeutico
No full textIl processo terapeutico è un fenomeno intrinsecamente dinamico. Nonostante tale affermazione sia familiare a chi lavora nella pratica clinica, i tradizionali modelli di ricerca non sono ancora riusciti a renderne conto in maniera adeguata. Ciò è dovuto almeno in parte all’utilizzo di modelli teorici e di metodologie d’analisi che, riduttivamente, assumono una concezione statica e lineare del processo terapeutico. Nel presente articolo sosteniamo la necessità di sviluppare una teoria generale dello scambio clinico e adeguate metodologie d’analisi in grado di cogliere in maniera soddisfacente la natura dinamica del processo terapeutico. Dopo aver evidenziato i limiti degli attuali paradigmi di ricerca, descriveremo alcune prospettive emergenti per uno studio della dinamica intrinseca al processo terapeutico. Infine, la teoria generale dei sistemi verrà proposta come un framework integrativo in grado di offrire un’adeguata teoria e corrispondenti metodologie d’analisi, per un approccio dinamico allo studio del processo terapeutico
A systematic review of psychotherapy research topics (2000-2016): A computer-assisted approach
Full text linkThe present work aims to empirically map what has been investigated and which issues (i.e. topics) characterize the debates of psychotherapy research, using a computer-assisted, bottom-up method of content analysis. The abstract of papers (N=13, 499), published between 2000-2016 and retrieved from a sample of 10 journals selected as representing the field of psychotherapy research, were subjected to a method of automated content analysis. Five different research topics were identified (clinical relationship, clinical efficacy, clinical practice and research, psychopathology, and neuroscientific approaches to mental disorders) and each abstract was labeled according to the retrieved research topic. Two different Chi-square analyses investigated the distributions of research topics over time and among the selected journals. Results concerning the distribution over time highlighted an increase in the clinical relationship and clinical efficacy topics and a decrease in the others. An examination of the distribution among journals showed that psychopathology and neuroscientific approaches to mental disorders were associated with psychiatric journals, while the others were associated with non-psychiatric journals. The findings are discussed in light of the theoretical, methodological, and practical implications offering pointers for a critical understanding of the current psychotherapy research domain. Copyright: the Author(s), 2019
The unbreable dynamicity of psychological processes: highlights of the psychodynamics theories
No full textWithin the psychoanalytically oriented tradition, the term dynamic has been traditionally used with regard of the conflictual nature of intra- and inter-individual psychological processes. In the present work, we make use of a broader meaning of the term dynamic, i.e., as indicating a phenomena which unfolds over time. Following this, a phenomena is dynamic when its is explicitly dependent on time, i.e., the state of the phenomena at t(n+1) is dependent on the previous state of the phenomena at t(n). We refer to dynamic systems (DS) theory as a theoretical and methodological framework which allows to model dynamic phenomena by taking explicitly into account their time-dependent nature as a necessary descriptive/explicative dimension. Our aim is to suggest that the domain of dynamic psychology can be legitimately extended to all psychological phenomena which are studied from a (DS) perspective.
The DS approach is first described by providing a definition of dynamic systems and outlining their main properties. Then, the dynamical nature of some psychological process is described. Finally, the specific example of how psychological processes may be studied from the perspective of DS theory is provided
Fear, affective semiosis, and management of the pandemic crisis: Covid-19 as semiotic vaccine?
No full textThe COVID-19 pandemic represents an extraordinary challenge to clinicians, health care institutions and policymakers. The paper outlines a psychoanalytically grounded semiotic-cultural psychological interpretation of such a scenario. First, we underline how the actual emotional reaction (mainly of fear) of our society is a marker of how the mind functions in conditions of affective activation related to heightened uncertainty: it produces global, homogenizing and generalizing embodied interpretations of reality, at the cost of more fine-grained and differentiated analytical thought. Such a process, called affective semiosis, represents an adaptive response to the emergency in the short-term. Second, we argue that this adaptive value provided by affective semiosis will be reduced when we have to deal with the process of managing the transition to the post-crisis and the governance of the medium and long-term impact of the crisis. Third, we suggest that, in order to manage the pandemic crisis on a longer temporal frame, affective semiosis has to be integrated with less generalized and more domain-specific ways of interpreting reality. To this end, semiotic capital (i.e., culturally-mediated symbolic resources) should be promoted in order to enable people to interiorize the supra-individual and collective dimension of life. Accordingly, COVID-19 is proposed as a semiotic vaccine, a disruption in our everyday life routines which has the potential of opening the way to a semiotic re-appropriation of the collective dimensions of our experience
Livelli e fattori della produttività scientifica della psicologia accademica. Un’analisi bibliometrica.
Full text linkSummary. The survey concerns the bibliometric analysis of the scientific productivity of the 8 Scientific Areas in which the Academic Italian System of Psychology is subdivided (Settori Scientifico-Disciplinari, SSD). To this end, data were retrieved from the Scopus (available at March 2012), one of the most internationally representative scientific da- tabases. Results shows that the Scientific Areas differ from each other with respect to productivity but they tend to show similar rates of growth. Moreover, the Scientific Ar- eas show different organizational characteristics (extension of the collaborative networks, language of publication, number of the international co-authorships); these characteris- tics, in turn, were associated with different level of bibliometric performance
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Modelling psychotherapy process as sense-making dynamic: The Two Stage Semiotic Model (TSSM) and the Discourse Flow Analyzer (DFA)
No full textThe chapter highlights a general model describing psychotherapy process in terms of meaning making dynamic evidencing results obtained thrughout the DFA method
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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