Showing papers in "Narrare i Gruppi in 2015"

Il senso del lavoro e il suo contesto. Una rilettura di Bartleby lo scrivano di Hermann Melville.

Abstract: The Meaning of Work and Its Context. A Reinterpretation of Bartleby, The Scrivener, by Herman Melville By means of a critical reinterpretation of the famous short story by H. Melville Bartleby The Scrivener, we propose a psycho-anthropological explanation of work behaviours, relationships in work environments and their psychopathological repercussions. The article notably examines behaviours and work relationships connecting them as outcomes of single individuals’ efforts to mentalize ideological-cultural models determining them in a given historical moment. A reductively individualistic interpretation is criticized, which is typically present in clinical and work psychology and ascribes to the single person presumed psychical deficits and exclusively looks in his/her personal history for causes of disadaptive behaviours and antecedents of psychopathological formations.

Il Riconoscimento, il lavoro, la cura

Abstract: Recognition, Work, Treatment The article I propose is a reflection on the theme of recognition in working and social contexts, and focuses on problems and troubles people cope with in this historical moment. A period during which reciprocity and recognition relationships involving our education and work career seem to have no more value, because the world of work now focuses on involving people in production and does not care about involved subjects’ life plans. I also wish to point out risks and sufferance affecting subjects who perceive with always greater precision that they are more and more often oppressed by labour and mind exploitation, rather than considered human resources with a working competence who can participate to a wider project.

Superfluità e ‘vuoto mentale’ dei lavoratori: una esplorazione attraverso i racconti di Franz Kafka

Abstract: Workers’ superfluity and 'mental emptiness': an exploration through Franz Kafka’s stories Kafka was not a passive and absent-minded employee. Recent studies on its working documents have shown considerable passion and professional competence. This expertise was poured in his literary works about work and organizations with a direct knowledge. Kafka’s symbolist style has been very effective in changing the way to see organizations. The writer particularly realized the growth of the exceeding population in recent years and could grasp the workers’ psychology and deeper aspects when they face their superfluity and expulsion from the world of work. More specifically, Kafka was able to analyze psychological surrender to superfluity which is mainly expressed with a specific form of "mental emptiness".

Nuove culture detentive: vissuti e ricadute sul ruolo e sul benessere della polizia penitenziaria

Abstract: A fronte di uno scenario di profonda crisi delle carceri italiane e dell’urgenza di rivedere il senso e il significato di tale istituzione sono in aumento le iniziative di promozione di pratiche di custodia e trattamentali innovative. Lo studio fa riferimento a una delle carceri italiane piu all’avanguardia nella gestione trattamentale e rieducativa dei detenuti (celle aperte, auto-organizzazione dei detenuti di attivita ricreativo-culturali, promozione di attivita lavorative cooperative sia all’interno che all’esterno del carcere), con lo scopo di studiare se e come questo cambio di cultura detentiva abbia generato trasformazioni organizzative che impattano anche sul benessere professionale degli operatori che presidiano la gestione dei detenuti negli istituti di pena. Attraverso uno studio qualitativo che ha visto il coinvolgimento di 15 agenti di polizia penitenziaria dei 3 reparti maggiormente critici dell’istituto in quanto ospitano i cosiddetti detenuti ‘protetti’ (condanne alte, tossicodipendenti e sex offenders ), vengono indagati i vissuti e le rappresentazione dei soggetti circa il proprio ruolo e alcuni aspetti della vita organizzativa indicatori del loro benessere professionale.

Identità in cambiamento: il ruolo del funzionario della professionalità giuridico pedagogica in carcere

Abstract: Changing Identities: The Juridical-Educational Professional's Role in Prison The Italian prison organization has been undergoing several modifications aiming at increasing the inmates’ as well as the professionals’ well-being. In particular, the Penitentiary Administration Department’s decision of replacing former penitentiary educators with juridical-educational professionals (circular letter 0438879-2010) represented an extremely relevant change. Such modifications also led professionals working in prison to restructure their concept of professional identity. The present study makes use of focus groups interviews and the Symbolic Drawing of the Organizational Life Space (SDOLS) in order to investigate the professional identity representations as well as the concept of change in a group of 10 juridical-educational professionals working in two correctional facilities in Lombardy. Focus group transcripts were analyzed using the software T-LAB while a phenomenological analysis was carried out on the SDOLSs . Our findings show that such representations are based on practices and scripts that are only shared and socialized at a local level, that is within the organization professionals work in; on the contrary, specific values connected to their professional role appear to be less relevant. Hence, a difference between the two correctional facilities considered can be observed: although they both serve their mission , one can find a 'total institution', characterized by a lack of openness towards the outside world on one hand, and the attempt to develop synergic relationships with the local community on the other.

Senso e non senso del lavoro in Charles Bukowski

Abstract: The meaning and meaningless of work in Charles Bukowski In the psychological and managerial literature, the meaning of work boasts a long tradition; in this topic, scholars and researchers explored sources of meaning and meaningfulness of the working activity in workers’ motivations, values and beliefs. A relatively smaller space, however, is assigned to the function work has in terms of signifier of individual’s personal identity. This article aims at deeply examining the relationship between identity construction and meaning of work, focusing on this theme through the exploration of Charles Bukowski’s narrative world. The attention is particularly addressed to representations and emotional connotations characterizing the relationship between identity and work, deduced by the content analysis of his literary production. Bukowski’s difficult working experience sustainability intersects with the instability scenario of the second post war period in the U.S., recursively affecting the development of a self-reflexive thought around which an idea of oneself could be modeled. In this sense, the Author’s experience is paradigmatic for the contemporary condition, in so far as today’s work experience, deprived of a shared meaning system, negatively influences the meaning attribution process involving one’s own life experiences.

Disegnare per ricostruire. Studio pilota sul riconoscimento delle risorse interne ed esterne dei detenuti in una Casa Circondariale

Abstract: Drawing to reconstruct. Pilot study on acknowledging prisoners’ internal and external resources in a penitentiary institution Since the first offender rehabilitation treatments, all theoretical approaches have been focused on reducing risk factors that may influence recidivism, without obtaining good results. Recent resilience researches have instead shown the important mediating or moderating role of protective factors and provided the theoretical principles for the Good Lives Model Comprehensive (GLM-C). This holistic model suggests the importance of integrating the reduction of risk factors with the reinforcement of protective factors in offender treatments programmes. This combined action is considered the main condition through which offenders are motivated to change their life and develop a sense of agency on their current life conditions. This paper presents a pilot study, aimed at analyzing the feasibility of a psychosocial intervention, based on graphic workshops. The purpose of the intervention is helping prisoners striving toward adaptation in jail, and facilitating the redesign of their life beyond bars. The drawing activities allowed the prisoners enhancing their own internal and external resources, and recognizing the risk and protective factors that could influence their successful reintegration into society. The main limit of this study is directly linked to the setting of the penitentiary institution where the study was conducted, which is characterized by a high prisoners’ turn over.

Istituzioni penitenziarie: processi trasformativi e benessere

Abstract: Senza pretesa di esaustivita, il presente special issue intende focalizzare l’attenzione proprio sui processi trasformativi attualmente in corso presso le istituzioni penitenziarie, processi attuati in ricerca di una piu elevata adeguatezza delle istituzioni all’attuale contesto socioculturale e ai differenti bisogni degli individui, operatori e soggetti in stato di detenzione. I contributi proposti costituiscono un tentativo di porre in dialogo punti di vista e prospettive, superando la cultura dei ‘monologhi’ e delle relazioni infertili, cosicche anche l’attuale ‘confusione’ che prevale in molti contesti penitenziari, possa approdare ad un livello di generativita e possano essere assunte nuove forme del fare, dell’ andare verso un nuovo benessere. Per questo i primi due contributi sono centrati sugli attori-operatori, gli ultimi due sugli attori-detenuti. Oltre a cio, e opportuno sottolineare come le riflessioni proposte dagli autori si diramino in sforzi d’individuazione di strumenti efficaci per evidenziare anche la dimensione inconscia e simbolica delle rappresentazioni, dei vissuti e delle dinamiche psichiche e relazionali che hanno luogo entro le organizzazioni. Lo studio di tali aspetti, anche nelle sue dimensioni inconsapevoli, e infatti fondamentale nel perseguire un reale e fattivo cambiamento organizzativo. Apre la rassegna il contributo di D’Angelo, Gozzoli e Mezzanotte, orientato all’analisi approfondita di vissuti e rappresentazioni degli agenti di polizia penitenziaria circa il proprio ruolo professionale ed alcuni aspetti della loro vita lavorativa. Segue il contributo di Accordini, Saita e Tramontano. L’uso del Disegno Simbolico dello Spazio di Vita Organizzativo consente di, evidenziare le trasformazioni che concernono i funzionari della professionalita giuridico-pedagogica, figura professionale di recenti istituzione, la cui identita professionale risulta piu ancorata a specifiche pratiche, socializzate entro il contesto locale di appartenenza, che alla consapevolezza di se come professionista con un insieme di competenze riconosciute e condivise. Lo studio di Cesana, Giordano, Boerchi, Rivolta e Castelli e finalizzato a verificare la fattibilita di un intervento psico-sociale basato sull’utilizzo di laboratori grafici e orientato a sostenere i detenuti nella riprogettazione della propria vita oltre l’esperienza del carcere. Da ultimo, il contributo di Saita, Accordini e Fenaroli descrive una innovativa attivita trattamentale che, mediante l’utilizzo di differenti tecniche fotografiche, si propone di favorire lo sviluppo dell'intelligenza emotiva, il che favorisce l’incremento del benessere dei detenuti.

La quotidianità dell'incontro in classe: insegnamento e alterità

Abstract: The routine of everyday meeting in class: t eaching and alterity This work focuses on the relational dimension of meeting between teacher and students meant as structural element of teaching practice. By using group-analysis and anthropo-analysis theoretical coordinates, the authors psycho dynamically problematize some binding relational conditions which allow surfacing a group layout aimed at learning from experience with respect of an imaginary horizon in a perfect agreement with planning. The horizon of intercultural education is indicated as an ideal term to adjust educational practice.

Conoscere il mondo per conoscere la propria cultura

Abstract: Experiencing the world to become acquainted with our culture The focus of this issue is about the serious problems migrants have to deal with when they interact with Western hospitality models. The contribution develops a reflection on the concept of culture in relation with globalization processes and the need to promote a reliable dialogue with the other which could help opening new forms of intercultural cohabitation.

Immagini dietro le sbarre: l’utilizzo della fotografia per lo sviluppo dell’intelligenza emotiva dei detenuti

Abstract: Images Behind Bars: Using Photography to Develop Prisoners’ Emotional Intelligence The present paper describes an intervention using photographic techniques within treatment programs addressed to inmates with the aim of promoting their re-socialization and reeducation. This intervention aims at favoring the development of emotional intelligence (EI), conceived as the ability to understand and recognize one’s own and other people’s emotional states; scientific literature proved an association between EI, a reduction of recidivism and an increased well-being among the prison population. Photographic techniques are extremely suitable instruments capable of overcoming linguistic and cultural barriers as well as potential individual resistances and proved to be useful in allowing symbolic contents, connected to emotional states, beliefs and perceptions, to emerge. The above mentioned intervention included a number of group meetings; this setting allows learning, self-reflection while promoting exchange and self-growth. The sessions’ structure is such to allow the accomplishment of both, the more general aim (EI development) as well as specific aims, tailored for different categories of inmates. For example, convicts sentenced to medium/short-term detention should be helped in their rehabilitation process after release, while those with longer-term detention need help in accepting their sentence and adapting to prison life. The last part of the article discusses about the possible ways to assess this intervention in order to develop an evaluation protocol that could be generalized and applied to different contexts.

Il corpo biologico e il corpo sociale nella donna alle origini della cultura occidentale. L'obbligo di (imparare a) essere madri in Grecia antica

Abstract: Women’s Biological and Social Body at the Beginning of Western Culture. Being obliged to (learn to) be mother in ancient Greece Since women are socially and naturally inferior to men, they must be educated by men, especially as to the only role which can give them a dignity and an almost male status: being mother. Greek authors wrote a lot to explain women that if they had not been mothers, they would pay a very high price on a physical and a social viewpoint. We will particularly focus on two kinds of sources, medical and theatrical, which highlight some very powerful and extraordinarily long-lasting stereotypes, such as those of mater dolorosa [painful mother], mater luctuosa [sorrowful mother] and mater terribilis [cruel mother] or that of women suffering from hysteria for not becoming mothers. With a time leap of thousands of years, we will conclude analyzing some beliefs concerning pregnancy and breastfeeding in contemporary Sicily, with surprising analogies with respect to ancient Greece.

Arte Letteraria e riflessione psicologica sul lavoro e sulle organizzazioni

Abstract: Gentili lettori, il numero che vi presentiamo, coerentemente con la filosofia di Narrare i Gruppi e con l’interesse che la rivista pone sulla narrazione, affronta una riflessione che vede come attori principali il linguaggio letterario e il linguaggio scientifico della psicologia. Da una parte vengono rivisitate opere letterarie di autori molto conosciuti come Melville, Kafka e Bukowski, dall’altra le loro opere vengono lette a supporto, e per comprendere meglio, un tema assai caro alla psicologia delle organizzazioni e del lavoro. Una riflessione tematica che vuole collocare il linguaggio della letteratura e il linguaggio scientifico in un dialogo costruttivo, al fine di evidenziare problematiche psicologiche che nascono e si sviluppano nell’ambito organizzativo e del lavoro.

Il ruolo del gruppo nella formazione degli Operatori socio-sanitari di un servizio di cure palliative domiciliari

Abstract: The role of group for training of health care providers of a palliative home care service The aim of palliative care is to improve the quality of life of patients and their families facing problems associated with life-threatening illness. Palliative care can be provided at home by multidisciplinary team. In the field of palliative care, few studies have explored the role of group for training of health care providers. This paper focuses on the experience of a training group for health care providers of a palliative home care service. The group-analytic theory offer some features and processes for this type of group. In fact, one influential theory of group highlights that the group process replicate emotional, institutional and organizational aspects of the work background of members. By this point of view, training group take the health care providers to learn relational skills from the others members. In turn, these skills can improve the efficacy of the work of health care providers and improve them ability to use the interpersonal relationship as a valuable tool.

La dinamica tra appartenere e differenziarsi: elementi della trasformazione nella terapia 'a geometria variabile' con adolescenti migranti

Abstract: Dynamics between belonging and differentiating: Transformation elements in the ‘variable geometry’ therapy with migrant teenagers This work will explain the dynamics between belonging and differentiating processes during adolescence, through the use of a clinical case as an example. This dynamics is complicated by the fact that the subject at hand refers to cultural stories of migration. This work examines the chance to use integrated strategies, such as cultural consultation, which transforms therapy in a ‘variable geometry’ model.

I luoghi del malinteso nella cultura e nella cura

Abstract: Misunderstanding situations in culture and cultural care This article focuses on cultural misunderstanding in care relations, starting from the analysis of the effects misunderstanding causes in the relation between doctor and migrant patient. The Western medical model tends to be based on objective data, which can be diagnosed through more and more precise and detailed techniques, but it excludes from care relations human and cultural aspects of subjectivity and relation. This exclusion creates distance, which increases when doctor and patient do not share a cultural homogeneity but differ for their language and the way they conceive their body, health, disease. By showing some clinical examples, this contribution points out how specialized competence can cause dark areas of obscurity, disagreement and misunderstanding, although being successful in many distressing situations. The interpretation of misunderstanding in the field of healthcare delimits our observation to disease, treatment, the relation between doctor and patient, but the identification and comprehension of misunderstanding are possible also focusing our attention on the organizational and institutional environment where misunderstanding takes place.

L'acrobatica del morire

Abstract: The Acrobatics of Dying This article aims at summing up the reflections of a small group of psychologists who work in the domain of palliative treatment. The theory and methodology supporting it are borrowed by a group analysis approach; purpose of the group is a research based on the workers’ experience elaboration, which aims at finding out both the specificities of the work apparatus with the people accompanied to the conclusion of their lives, and the main thematic areas of the relationship between health care team, patients and families. The work we present aims at introducing the most meaningful themes emerged during group meetings: first of all some service criticalities examined in the area of terminal health care and the workers’ possible saturation and psycho-social discomfort quotas, generating in some cases a common sense of professional precariousness.

I luoghi del malinteso nella cultura e nella cura culturale

Abstract: Misunderstanding situations in culture and cultural care This article focuses on cultural misunderstanding in care relations, starting from the analysis of the effects misunderstanding causes in the relation between doctor and migrant patient. The Western medical model tends to be based on objective data, which can be diagnosed through more and more precise and detailed techniques, but it excludes from care relations human and cultural aspects of subjectivity and relation. This exclusion creates distance, which increases when doctor and patient do not share a cultural homogeneity but differ for their language and the way they conceive their body, health, disease. By showing some clinical examples, this contribution points out how specialized competence can cause dark areas of obscurity, disagreement and misunderstanding, although being successful in many distressing situations. The interpretation of misunderstanding in the field of healthcare delimits our observation to disease, treatment, the relation between doctor and patient, but the identification and comprehension of misunderstanding are possible also focusing our attention on the organizational and institutional environment where misunderstanding takes place.