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    Quattro parole fondamentali per la vita della mente

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    The article proposes a broad reflection around four words which are crucial for psychiatric and psychological research: conscious memory, non-conscious memory, separation and transformation and the way these concepts differ from and relate to each other. Among the themes developed is the passage from sleep-wakefulness and wakefulness-sleep, the distinction between the disappearance fantasy and the annulment drive and the recreation of the preverbal dimension of the first year of life

    Una sentenza storica

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    In a sentence published last April, in relation to a case of "abuse of the profession of psychotherapist", the Italian Supreme Court (Corte di Cassazione) has gone to some length to lay down some principles, that, given the authoritative nature of this body, can be considered the founding principles of the psychotherapeutic profession. The sentence stresses the fact that psychoanalysis is not a free intellectual activity but a psychotherapy like all the others and distinguishes itself on the basis of the methods it uses, and as such, psychoanalysts must respect law 56/89 which sets the rules for psychotherapies. Furthermore the Supreme Court highlights the fact that "talking" constitutes a real and proper therapy for real and proper diseases, and so, psychotherapy is a typical activity of the medical profession. Ultimately this sentence, in contrast to what is commonly held in the scientific world, indicates that the Supreme Court is of the idea that psychotherapy is a therapy which offers a cure for real and proper diseases, which cannot have an organic basis if they can be cured by "talking". (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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
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