Serena Giunta

TL;DR: The findings support the view that defense patterns represent core components of personality and its disorders, and suggest that an increased use of immature defenses and a reduced use of mature defenses have a negative impact on the development of personality.

TL;DR: The time marked by the clock hands, the so-called "objective time", is deeply different from the one perceived by the individual as mentioned in this paper, and the subjective time is not the same as the objective time.

TL;DR: In this paper, an empirical study to explore communication strategies in the Cosa Nostra is presented, where the data obtained from some interviews and police interrogations to men of honor have been analyzed through a method that refers to the grounds of qualitative research in clinical psychology, the Grounded Theory by Glaser and Strauss.

TL;DR: For many years, psychological-clinical research has been aiming at studying the Mafia from different viewpoints: the man of honor's inner world, relational and psychopathological structures of his family matrices, connections between inner and social worlds, interiorized and social rules as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the issue of in individuals with disability and the new professional figure of the sexual assistant, already accepted and adopted in some parts of Europe The sexual assistant as a professional figure has been raising many moral and practical dilemmas and additionally is a controversial figure A service which can offer to these particular subjects, the possibility to explore their sexuality raises many questions concerning the social, legal and moral issues, which may or may not legitimize the adoption of this practice.