This paper documents how eating disorders are treated through homogeneous slow-open groups, alternating small groups with larger groups. The work performed was tested using transference and countertransference analysis supported by the use of the MRG grid.
This article describes the supervision experience of a group-analytic therapy for psychotic patients carried out from 2000 to 2003 at the Mental Health Center of Carpi (Modena, Italy). The experience of supervision is here presented in its main aspects and as a tool to promote the so-called `reflective function' of the `couple supervisor and supervisee'. The `reflective function' is described in its meaning of com-prehension (from the Latin word `com-prehendere': to acquire knowledge and also to `hold into affection'), referring to an ongoing process of mutual exchange and understanding between supervisor and supervisee. Supervision is here considered as a transgenerational transmission, where both supervisor and supervisee participate in an exchange that takes place between transmission of culture and innovations. According to our hypothesis, the reflective function that develops within the supervision process mirrors the reflective function of the therapeutic work and in this context research can play a stimulating role. In this article we consider the supervision process and describe an attempt to combine classical supervision with evaluation work.
Original Italian translation by Paul Foulkes The sibling relationship consists of a complex web of emotions and feelings, linked to elements of a cognitive, cultural and social kind which are not easy to disentangle. Yet it deserves far more attention than it has received until now. Its wide spectrum of significance depends on many variables such as difference of age, gender, social status, religion, cultural and economic values. It is a relationship that springs from the earliest history of the individual and which plays a vital part in determining characteristics of identity and personality. Yet more complex and wider-ranging meanings concerning the symbolic value of the sibling relationship become apparent when looking at the family as a group, a web of primary relationships with aspects both intrapsychic and those relating to wider social stratifications. It is this very richness which causes difficulties when we consider which elements to use in research. Complex methods of research are required in this neglected field, and this article sets out key elements as a basis for future investigation and debate.
This article examines the term ‘relational goods’ as defined by the American economist Carole J. Uhlaner, and how this term may be used to express a link between economy and psychology. The conflict between quality and quantity is discussed, and how this conflict relates to psychological disciplines, especially in terms of cost effectiveness in psychological treatments, and with reference to works of the great philosophers as well as those in our own discipline.
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