Recensione al libro “La psiche mafiosa. Storie di casi clinici e collaboratori di giustizia”, di G. Lo Verso, G. Lo Coco

Stigma towards mental ill people is gaining importance within the field of mental health. The following paper tries to investigate the stigma phenomenon of undergraduates in Medicine, Psychology and Nursing. Since those are the key figures of the future in the treatment of the patients, their possible stigmatizing behaviors can influence negatively the therapeutic course of the patients themselves. For this purpose, a review of the major works concerned with the object of the study has been conducted, in order to survey feasible interventions to reduce stigma and negative attitudes from the students.

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Stigma and mental health: the perception of the health professionals of the future and the feasible interventions

In recent decades, Italy has been affected by constant migratory flows of people, which have brought substantial changes to the social, cultural and economic structure of the country. There are, in fact, many second-generation immigrants on the national territory, who induce political actors and institutions in charge of culture to develop programmes and build pathways to integration, appropriate to their needs. First of all, within the category of "second generation immigrants" there are numerous and heterogeneous individual experiences, whose common denominator is represented by the migratory experience, often experienced only by their parents. This young generation appears, therefore, as suspended between two cultures, the ancestral one, relative to the homeland, and the dominant one, relative to the society of arrival. Numerous international studies (Portes & Rumbaut, 2001; Sayad, 2002; Palmas, 2012) highlight the possible paths of integration of second generations within the host societies, in order to promote valid and profitable pathways to integration. As far as Italy is concerned, the picture is, however, more complex, since the phenomenon is inextricably linked to territorial variables of a different nature. Therefore, each region and small territorial entity has peculiar characteristics that require an ad hoc analysis. The proposed research aims to highlight the most important aspects of the integration pathways of second-generation young immigrants in the Palermo area, striving to grasp the psychosocial dynamics of inclusion and marginalization.

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Integration and marginalization in second-generation immigrants in Palermo: an empirical research

Today, the most disturbing political question seems to be of a psychodynamic nature: what occupies the minds of individuals and society in general, other than a wealth of contradictions and a great emptiness?  The accumulation of insensitivity and cruelty towards the world and towards oneself seems to be shaping up as the biggest problem facing this new century. To this end, the present study lays out an innovative psychodynamic reading of the political and cultural attitude of populism.  The phenomenon is herein analyzed using a psychodynamic perspective, which will enable us to deduce just how such an orientation, in its phenomenological aspects, lends itself to fundamentalist connotations typical of saturated thought.  If it can be said that the individual often acts in a manner that seeks to consciously utilize reason and emotion through the intermediary of the Ego, the masses tend to act impulsively and without any conscious awareness of their actions, on the basis of unmediated instinctual drives.  Understanding the unconscious dynamics that underlie the attitudes and behaviors which the general population assumes in the face of crises, social emergencies, diversity, economics, and ecology is an essential step towards developing sustainable, concrete solutions at the psychological, social, and political levels, precisely by taking as a starting point a profound awareness of the psychodynamic mechanisms which dictate the orientation of the perception of reality and the resulting decision-making process.

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Populism as Fundamentalism: A Psychodynamic Reading of the Phenomenon

This study stems from the interest of identifying the presence and influence of the mafia phenomenon in different spheres of everyday life, social and working environment as well So we tried to analyze the mafia, or rather, the pressure it exerted on the daily context, observing and at the same time trying to focus on its influence over a circumscribed phenomenon of clinical interest such as the burnout found in police officers who have been into contact with prisoners condemned to “hard prison regime” It was used an empirical research method with scientific instruments such as the Maslach Burnout Inventory The survey of working satisfaction (“Survey of Working Satisfaction”, nd), and on an ad hoc semi-structured interview According to the analysis of instruments we didn't find evidence of a direct correlation between the Police Officers job experience and the development of burnout syndromes On the other, we noticed, on average and with an across-the-board approach, a remarkable presence of anxiety and stress as somatization medically recognized (hypertension arterial, anxious state) and Depersonalization linked to the perceived responsibility

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Hard Prison Regime: Is it an Issue of Exclusively Concern to Detainees? An Exploratory Empirical Research into the Experiences of State Correction Officers

Our empirical study aims at understanding and analyzing whether and how the way in which the “sons of Mafia” consider their own family and the society in general has changed over time. The psychological study is based on a sample of 11 subjects all sons of the Mafia men divided according to a generational variable, i.e. these two ranges of age: 17-28 and 39-62. The data obtained from the interviews were analyzed using the Grounded Theory method. From the comparison these elements emerged: first of all, the subjects have a distinct perception of these three different areas: - family, and especially the bond with their fathers; - society, represented mainly by the relationship with peers; - Mafia, specifically in relation to the value codes of this criminal organization. The analysis of these areas has allowed us to give a cross-reading of the Mafia phenomenon outlining the differences in the way in which the present generations and the past ones live and perceive it.

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Cinzia Bizzarri

Papers

Being Mafia Children: An Empirical Transgenerational Research