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Renzo Canestrari e lo sviluppo della Psicologia clinica
05 Oct 2021-Iss: 2, pp 157-173
TL;DR: Canestrari as discussed by the authors highlights the developments of the clinical dimension of psychology undertaken and carried out by Renzo Canestraris since his entry into the School of Medicine of the University of Bologna, in 1961.
Abstract: The paper highlights the developments of the clinical dimension of Psychology undertaken and carried out by Renzo Canestrari since his entry into the School of Medicine of the University of Bologna, in 1961. The work describes the educational objectives, the lines of research, and the expansion of teaching in the academic institution. In this path Psychosomatic Medicine has represented a crucial disciplinary area and research field that worked as a point of convergence of medical and psychological needs, while encouraging the integration of different theoretical and methodological perspectives, such as Gestalt psychology, psychoanalysis, psychometric and psychophisiological approaches. This analysis of the scientific, institutional and professional events makes it apparent the close relationship between medicine and psychology, which provided a mutual advantage and favored the affirmation of clinical psychology in its academic, scientific and professional side.
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TL;DR: The results indicate that the Drawn Stories Technique shows construct validity for use with children and is sensitive enough to detect their psychological distress, in terms of anxiety and depression.
Abstract: This study evaluated the validity of analyzing children's drawings using the Drawn Stories Technique for psychodiagnostic assessment and clinical investigation of children. The research was conducted on a sample of 211 subjects (102 girls, 109 boys), 99 in primary school and 112 in secondary school. Three measures of psychological distress were given: the Drawn Stories Technique (considering two types of outcome of the stories as an index of psychological distress: story with a negative outcome and story with a positive outcome), and two self-report scales, the Anxiety Scale Questionnaire for Children and the Children's Depression Inventory. Analyses for both age groups indicate a prevalence of positive outcomes over negative outcomes, with a similar distribution in the two age groups. Greater anxiety and depression were found for subjects with a prevalence of negative outcome in the stories, and girls scored generally as more anxious and depressed than boys. These results indicate that the Drawn Stories Technique shows construct validity for use with children and is sensitive enough to detect their psychological distress, in terms of anxiety and depression.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the transformations of the psychotherapeutic field through the relationship dynamics which occur within it, and present a phenomenology of the development of the qualities of the relationships of the client, as they become visible in his dream narrations and the subsequent associations in the analysis room.
Abstract: Summary The present work focuses on the transformations of the psychotherapeutic field through the relationship dynamics which occur within it. The first part of this article starts with a brief outline of the Gestalt psychological understanding of the field concept, also in its application to the psychotherapeutic situation, followed by a brief review of the introduction of the field concept into the psychoanalytic theory formation. After this, the first author first presents the theoretical concept underlying a new approach he has developed for observing the relationship dynamics in psychotherapy. Mirroring a formation of both psychoanalytic and Gestalt theory of the main author, this new approach is based on the combination of psychoanalytic and Gestalt psychological concepts. According to the clinical experience and insights of the author, the phenomenological and relational approach of Gestalt theory fits well with the psychoanalytic approach; on this basis, a criterion for recording the progress of therapy can be developed. This criterion is the phenomenology of the development of the qualities of the relationships of the client, as they become visible in his dream narrations and the subsequent associations in the analysis room and continue to develop during the session and the further course of therapy. The relationship dynamics in the dream narration is thus compared with those which develop in the course of the subsequent associations. This is demonstrated and further elaborated in the second part of this article on the basis of a clinical case. The clinical example shows how the relationship dynamics develop in this sense in the individual therapy sessions and over a longer course of therapy. The associated transformations of the therapeutic field give a good indication of the progress of therapy. The main author gained such insights into the transformations of the therapeutic field and the progression of therapy, which are visible in the course of therapy, from the careful application of the criterion “MDAC of relational dynamics”. In the specific case, there was also a high degree of correspondence between the results of the application of this phenomenological criterion and the empirical evidence of the symptom questionnaire, a self-report measure requested by the patient himself during the course of the therapy.
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