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Alcuni richiedenti asilo contemporanei in USA: machismo e donne in fuga
No full textAttraverso una breve rassegna delle leggi internazionali sulla richiesta di asilo (le Convenzioni di Ginevra) e sul ruolo dei professionisti della salute mentale americana in questo processo, il lavoro mira a comprendere i modi in cui la valenza spesso traumatizzante del machismo si trasmette di generazione in generazione nelle famiglie del Centro America. Utilizzando il paradigma di lavoro dello psicologo del Sé Alan Roland (1989, 1996, 2005), il contributo descrive le famiglie provenienti da queste aree come fortemente sottomesse al potere del padre, in cui i bambini sviluppano un senso del Sé basato sulla loro capacità di meritare la stima del padre. Inoltre, questi stessi bambini rimandano un’immagine positiva del padre all’esterno, anche laddove il suo comportamento sia tra i più brutali. Agire in modo diverso sarebbe, infatti, troppo umiliante. Venendo a mancare spazi di pensiero in cui poter attivare una riflessione su questi valori, si ritiene che essi vengano spesso agiti e trasmessi di generazione in generazione
Clinical And Dynamic Perspectives on The Challenge of Social Traumatic Emergencies: Positionings, Advances and Trajectories of Research and Intervention
No full textSeveral social traumatic emergencies are troubling individual and collective mental health and affective functioning. Wars, violence, and conflicts, with the consequent flight of millions of people forced to leave their homeland, represent the greatest challenges that contemporary societies face. These are extreme traumatic experiences whose effects extend beyond the individual dimension to also impact collective and social ones. This panel brings together contributions that address these issues with particular attention to the repercussions that such traumatic experiences and related research have on the human, professional, scientific, and academic communities. The panel, therefore, aims to offer a broad reflection on the phenomena of war and forced migration, outlining the trajectories and advances in research and intervention on these topics, as well as the perspectives of researchers and academics. Troisi et al., through the analysis of the lived experiences of a group of female professionals working on an Italian research-intervention project for refugee women victims of violence, share best gender-sensitive practices for clinicians and professionals facing the dual challenge of forced migration and gender-based violence. The focus on a gender-sensitive approach in research is also sustained in the contribution of Gallo et al. The authors present a systematic review of gender-sensitive research on women during the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and reflect on the unique positioning and direction of current research in addressing the trauma of war and the feminine issue. Similarly, the contribution of Cavazzoni et al. deepens the meanings, emotions, and defense mechanisms of a group of researchers engaged in “thinking about Gaza” and “researching on and within Gaza”. In conclusion, the study of Regnoli et al., which examines the social impact of war, presents the results of an investigation aimed at evaluating the effects of the Fear of War on psychological distress and its relationship with the Intolerance of Uncertainty and Future Anxiety in a sample of Italian young adults. The authors reflect on the implications of their findings to implement targeted intervention projects capable of caring for future generations
Facing the Traumatic Field in the Clinical and Social Work with Forced Migrants Through a Psychodynamic Perspective: from “Refugee Trauma” to the Clinic of Social Links
Full text linkThis article aims to rethink the clinical and social work with forced migrants through the concept of “field” as it is described in the context of Bionian psychoanalysis. The proposed approach goes beyond the individual trauma of the refugee, to arrive at a clinic of the “traumatic field” that includes, but also overcomes, the dyadic relationship searching for the link between intra-psychic, inter-psychic and social dimensions. The work with mediation “devices”, the dream field, and the group as a social witness will be discussed as operational tools of a clinical social practice of intervention extended to relevant emerging social contexts
Female Nigerian asylum seekers in Italy: An exploration of gender identity dimensions through an interpretative phenomenological analysis
No full textWe present a qualitative study exploring the subjective meanings that five female Nigerian asylum seekers hosted in Italy attributed to their pre-migratory, migratory and post-migratory experiences, with an examination in-depth of the gender identity dimensions. We developed and administered semi-structured interviews, analyzed according to the Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. On the background of the identity breakdown produced by forced migration, we highlight an inadequate integration process of the gender roles of woman and mother, generating a fracture that makes women’s experiences particularly fragile. Reflections on the implication of the study and of the development of intervention programs will be outlined
Land of care seeking: Pre-and post-migratory experiences in asylum seekers’ narratives
No full textIntegrating the psychodynamic framework on migration with the insights provided by the community psychology perspective, the present study aimed at exploring in-depth the pre-migratory, migratory and post-migratory experiences of 20 West-African male asylum seekers hosted in Italy and, through the adoption of a qualitative and narrative method, at understanding strengths and weaknesses of using narrative methods in research with asylum seekers. In-depth open ended interviews, were administered and then analysed through the software T-LAB. Thematic clusters identified from the analysis testified the intra-psychic, relational and contextual nature of trauma. Against the background of diverse human rights violations and identity challenges involved in the migration process, post-migratory narratives revealed several social and contextual determinants which exacerbated participants’ suffering and vulnerabilities. The ambivalent function of narration in the context of forced migration encourages further reflection on the use of narrative methods in research with asylum seekers. Narrative features suggested that researchers and professionals should create more appropriate interview situations which, through the combination of different linguistic and expressive registers, can facilitate, mediate and support the narrative organisation of the experiences, which are often disrupted from severe traumatisation
From struggle to hope: A gender-sensitive investigation on Nigerian male and female asylum seekers’ experiences
No full textThe study presents a qualitative and culturally-sensitive investigation of the lived experiences of the forced migration of six Nigerian asylum seekers, three men and three women, hosted in Italy. Through a focus on gender identity issues, the study aimed to explore possible gender differences between participants and define their specific needs, requirements and characteristics. Overall, the gender-focused perspective through which we explored participants’ subjective experiences has enriched our understanding of their unique life stories, shedding light on the psychic dimensions as well as on the social and cultural inscriptions of their gender identity and providing insights on the different ways in which Nigerian women and men made sense of their experiences of displacement, migration, violence and trauma
Benedetto Croce, Scritti su Francesco De Sanctis, edizione critica
No full textL’opera, pubblicata sotto gli auspici della Società Nazionale di Scienze, Lettere e Arti in Napoli nella collana “Fonti e ricerche per la storia sociale e culturale del Mezzogiorno d’Italia”, si compone di due tomi riuniti in cofanetto, di pagine CCCXVI e 628. Il secondo tomo raccoglie, in forma emendata ope codicum, le prime edizioni di tutti i saggi, prefazioni, note, recensioni, postille e “varietà” di argomento desanctisiano pubblicati da Benedetto Croce tra il 1886 e il 1952 ed è corredato dalla “Bibliografia degli scritti di Benedetto Croce su Francesco De Sanctis (1886-1952)” di Teodoro Tagliaferri, nonché dall’“Indice dei nomi”. Il primo tomo contiene, dopo la “Presentazione” e l’“Introduzione” generale di Fulvio Tessitore (pp. V-XLV), la “Nota ai testi” e l’“Apparato” di Teodoro Tagliaferri (pp. XLVII-CCCXVI), dove vengono tracciate, per ciascun testo, le coordinate bio-bibliografiche necessarie al suo inquadramento ed alla sua lettura critica, forniti ragguagli circa le numerosissime altre pagine desanctisiane sparse negli scritti di Croce, registrate integralmente le varianti introdotte da Croce nei testi all’atto di dar loro sistemazione nel corpus delle sue opere
Sixteen and pregnant as my mom: Transgenerational aspects of teenage pregnancy
No full textIn Italy 90% of teen pregnancies occur in young women who are daughters of teenage mothers (Istat, 2012). Supposing a transgenerational transmission (Abraham&Torok, 1987) these data could be read as the perpetuation from mother to daughter of unprocessed aspects that go along with the feminine separation-individuation process that happens in the name of the 'same' (Nunziante-Cesàro, 2014). Teenage pregnancies may represent the attempt to act the desire of a child 'repairer' or to hit the sexual body (Pines, 1988; Ammaniti et al., 1997). In a wider research field that investigates motherhood at risk (Margherita, Gargiulo, Martino, 2014; 2015; Troisi, Gargiulo, Tessitore, 2015), the study explores the relation between the representation of teenagers' pregnant experiences and the maternal ones.
15 women that have had a teenage pregnancy, daughters of teenage mothers were interviewed. A semi-structured interview, based on the Teen Mother Interview (Bohr, 2005), was built to investigate the reconstruction of the pregnancy experience and the relation with mothers. We have submitted the interviews corpus to a content analysis.
From the analysis, in the area of the pregnancy experience, the categories of meaning that emerge are: the asymptomatic body, the concreteness of the birth and the interrupted adolescence. The pregnancy discovery comes late and its description is flattened on the birth, on the background of an adolescence lived between regret and denial. In the area of the relation with their mother, the categories: ‘same mistake’, ‘now we are two adult women’ and the overlapping roles, recall a repetition directed to the conquest of an adult identity, as the maternal one, in which roles recognition is hard.
The emerging difficulties in mentalizing the body's restructurings and the acquisition of an adult identity, searched through imitative thrusts, on the background of confused roles, support the necessity of preventive interventions (Riva Crugnola, 2014)
Pre-and post-migratory experiences of refugees in Italy: An interpretative phenomenological analysis
No full textThe present study aimed to explore in-depth meanings and representations that 6 refugees hosted in Italy attributed to their pre-migratory, migratory and post-migratory experiences. We developed and administered semi-structured interviews, analysed accordingly to the principles of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. A total of four superordinate themes emerged: The past, the case is over; The Committee as witness of my truth; Italy, Never Land; The future between agency and delegation. The past emerged as a "case over", which participants tended to avoid talking about, while the Territorial Committee played a fundamental role as witness and legitimiser of their life stories. Positive post-migratory experiences configured a resilience field, which is able to strengthen and empower refugees' resources as well as to restore the social and community links normally destroyed by severe traumatisation. Implications for research and clinical interventions will be outlined
Teen Mum: uno studio esplorativo sul divenire madre in adolescenza come “condizione di rischio”
No full textSecondo l’Istat (2012) il 2,1% delle gravidanze italiane coinvolge adolescenti (90% figlie di madri adolescenti) spesso provenienti da realtà socioeconomiche a rischio. La gravidanza, che comporta trasformazioni mentali e corporee da elaborare (Monacelli, 2011), è interpretabile come spinta regressiva o emancipativa (Ferraro e Nunziante-Cesàro, 1985) e può essere agita, laddove l’acting rappresenta una dimensione fase-specifica dell’adolescenza (Margherita, 2009; Blos, 1993,). Diventare madri-teen assume connotazioni rischiose dove più sfide evolutive si sovrappongono con la probabilità che non siano affrontate adeguatamente (Salerno e Tosto, 2012; Marcheggiani e Grasso, 2007; Zampino, 2005; Zani e Cicognani, 1999; Ammaniti et al., 1997), ed in cui si concretizza la presenza di “due minori a rischio” (Riva Crugnola, 2011). Inoltre, in gravidanza le condizioni di rischio possono caratterizzarsi come difficilmente rappresentabili( Margherita, Gargiulo e Martino, 2015; 2014).
Lo studio esplora la ricostruzione dell’esperienza della maternità in adolescenza. Partendo dalla Teen Mother Interview (Bohr, 2005) è stata creata un’intervista semi-strutturata che indaga le aree adolescenza, esperienza di gravidanza, relazione con il figlio, relazione con la madre, relazione con il partner. Sono state intervistate 18 donne (età media 20), utenti di una Onlus che offre sostegno alla relazione madre-bambino, che hanno vissuto una gravidanza in adolescenza. Da un’analisi del contenuto emergono categorie di significato che rimandano alle dimensioni: “percezione del corpo”, “centralità del parto”, “adolescenza interrotta”, “confusione dei ruoli” (figlio/fratello, figlia/mamma, madre/nonna).
L’esperienza di gravidanza appare inaspettata (99%), centrata sul parto e su un vissuto negativo dei cambiamenti del corpo, più visto che sentito. L’adolescenza è vissuta tra il rimpianto e la negazione. I ruoli appaiono confusi: il figlio assume tratti fraterni e la nonna si sostituisce alla madre, nella sovrapposizione tra identità non ancora elaborate: essere madre-essere figlia.
Considerando la centralità degli aspetti concreti e poco mentalizzati, in un’ottica preventiva, ci si domanda quanto la gravidanza dia spazio al dispiegarsi di una maternità interiore (Bydlowski, 2004)
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