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The flip side of collaborative alliance: a single-case study
No full textThe present single case study explored whether a positive collaboration may conceal some of the patient's dysfunctional interpersonal schemas, hence reflecting a non-authentic collaboration. In particular, we reasoned that conceiving collaborations only as adaptive relations may prevent a comprehensive insight of the therapeutic relationship itself. To explore this possibility, we used an intersubjective approach that emphasizes the integration of specific and non-specific factors in an interdependent way. In particular, we assessed different constructs (i.e. therapeutic alliance, technical interventions, defense mechanism, therapeutic relationship) of the therapeutic process and combined them through statistical methods able to investigate the micro- and macro-analytic processes that define each interaction. Results of a single case study (Sara) showed that the collaborative functioning may hold back many critical aspects, that hardly conciliate with the classic positive definition of collaboration. These findings, therefore, indicate that Sara's collaborative alliance works mainly as a pseudo-alliance
Emotional aspects of metacognition in anxious rumination: Clues for understanding the psychotherapy process
No full textThe interplay of mentalization and epistemic trust: a protective mechanism against emotional dysregulation in adolescent internalizing symptoms
Full text linkMentalization is the ability to interpret actions as caused by intentional mental states. Moreover, mentalization facilitates the development of epistemic trust (ET), namely, the ability to evaluate social information as accurate, reliable, and relevant. Recent theoretical literature identifies mentalization as a protective factor, contrasting psychopathology and emotional dysregulation. However, few investigations have explored the concurrent associations between mentalization, ET and emotion dysregulation in the context of internalizing problems in adolescence. In the present study, 482 adolescents from the general population aged between 12 and 19 were assessed with the epistemic trust mistrust credulity questionnaire, the reflective functioning questionnaire- youth, the difficulties in emotion regulation scale, and the youth self-report. We tested the relationship between the variables through serial mediation models. Results showed that mentalization reduces internalizing problems via emotional dysregulation; ET is positively associated with mentalization but not symptomatology. Finally, both epistemic mistrust and epistemic credulity are significantly associated with internalizing symptomatology; those effects are mediated differently by difficulties in emotional regulation. In conclusion, the present study confirms mentalization's role as a protective factor in developmental psychopathology. Nevertheless, exploring the role of the different epistemic stances guarantees a better understanding of psychopathological pathways in adolescence
Jeremy Safran’s impact on Italian psychotherapy research and practice: a window into the processes involved in therapeutic alliance
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Mentalizing, personality organization, and symptomatology in children and adolescents using the psychodynamic diagnostic manual
No full textThis study aims to investigate mentalizing, personality organization, symptomatology, and their relationships in the developmental age within nonclinical and clinical samples. We compared three groups of participants, including children (8–11 years old) and adolescents (12–15 years old): a nonclinical sample (n = 79), a group diagnosed with externalizing disorders (disruptive behavior disorders, DBD; n = 31), and a group diagnosed with internalizing disorders (somatic symptom disorders, SSD; n = 50). Mentalizing was assessed using the Child and Adolescent Reflective Functioning Scale. We applied the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, second edition to the transcripts of the Child Attachment Interview to evaluate personality organization. Symptomatology was assessed by parents using the Child Behavior Checklist. Results indicate that participants with DBD exhibit greater difficulties in mentalizing and a lower level of personality organization compared to SSD and nonclinical participants. On the other hand, SSD participants demonstrate a healthier level of personality organization and a stronger association with the ability to mentalize than their DBD peers. Regression analysis shows that, in both clinical and nonclinical samples, mentalizing play a stronger predictive role on the symptomatology than personality organization. Mentalizing confirms its key role in healthy and psychopathological development. The clinical implications of these findings are discussed
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
Investigating mental functioning through the Child Attachment Interview: a challenge in adolescence
No full textIntroduction: Recent literature focused on emotion regulation and mentalization as explaining mechanisms between insecure attachment and psychopathological trajectories in developmental age, but there is still a lack of studies using attachment interviews as informative measures of mental functioning. In the PDM-2 theoretical framework, the Child Attachment Interview (CAI) could be a valid measure to assess the Mental Functioning Axis (MA-Axis), coded through the Psychodiagnostic Chart-2 Adolescent-version (PDC-2), but quantitative studies are needed as well. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the role of mental functioning domains - i.e. emotional regulation and mentalization - in the relationship between insecure attachment, operazionalized as Attachment Coherence, and psychological maladjustment, operazionalized as Internalizing and Externalizing symptomatology.
Method: Forty-eighth Italian teenagers (Mage=13.1 y.o, SD=.99; 56% female), 20 of which as nonclinical group and 28 with internalizing and externalizing symptomatology (clinical group), were administered the CAI, later coded for Attachment Coherence and MA-Axis. Parents completed the Child Behavior Checklist 6-18.
Results: Exploratory analyses showed significative correlations between attachment security subscales, all mental functioning domains, and symptomatology. Mediation models tested the role of emotional regulation and mentalization, and the Capacity for Impulse Control and Regulation mediated the relationship between Attachment Coherence and psychological maladjustment, even controlling for group membership.
Discussion: Findings suggest that CAI and PDC-2 are useful measures to explore adolescent mental states, highlighting the relationship between attachment insecurity and psychological maladjustment through the interaction with emotional-behavioral regulation. Implications on clinical vs. nonclinical functioning in adolescence will be provided
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
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