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Territori in controluce. Ricerche psicologiche sul fenomeno mafioso, di Antonino Giorgi, Serena Giunta, Emanuela Coppola, Girolamo Lo Verso. Milano: Franco Angeli, 2009
TL;DR: In this paper, a studio di two comuni siciliani della provincia di Trapani, Marsala, and Campobello di Mazara is presented, in which a precondizione di base per combattere il fenomeno mafioso and the collaborazione con il territorio and la sua tramatura antropologica, al fine di costruire un pensiero and in-tensificare la consapevolezza dell'influenza dello psichismo maf
Abstract: Nel volume viene approfondito in particolare lo studio di due comuni siciliani della provincia di Trapani, Marsala e Campobello di Mazara. Comuni storicamente “a forte” presenza mafiosa, in cui gli assetti comunitari e socio-economici, prima stret-tamente influenzati da Cosa Nostra, da qualche tempo hanno iniziato a cambiare. Pre-condizione di base per combattere il fenomeno mafioso e la collaborazione con il territorio e la sua tramatura antropologica, al fine di costruire un pensiero ed in-tensificare la consapevolezza dell’influenza dello psichismo mafiosi nella cultura del quotidiano. Perche ci sia cambiamento e perche questo cambiamento possa essere costruito e necessaria la reale frattura tra poteri amministrativi e Cosa Nostra. Una spaccatura che deve necessariamente separare il mondo dei colletti bianchi dalle in-filtrazioni e dai condizionamenti mafiosi per permettere ai territori siciliani un con-creto sviluppo di opportunita che solo nella legalita potranno dare i loro frutti.
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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.
Abstract: The following article proposes an empirical study to explore communication strategies in the Cosa Nostra. Psychological studies on the characteristics of the language within the criminal organization are undoubtedly recent, but crucial to thoroughly understand the characteristics of implicit and explicit communication it adopts in the various contexts it works, as well as the power and value they assume. The data we have obtained from some videos concerning 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. The analysis we have carried out and its relevant data show us a world of the Mafia where the care for linguistic choices, for both form and contents, is characterized as a crucial activity, even when words are replaced by silence or gestures.
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TL;DR: In this paper, an empirical study aimed 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.
Abstract: 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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TL;DR: In this article, a qualitative analysis of the text, carried out through dedicated software, has pointed out two super codes (aggression to social connections within solitude; no freedom encloses paranoia).
Abstract: The Calabrian Mafia seems to be animated by a hunger for power with no precedent in other crime organizations, and an ability to hide its presence so much to make it an obvious and inevitable component of the decreed social system, deeply crept into the community cohabitation norms. In the study, we have aimed at investigating the Reggio Calabria flying squad policemen's representations and lived experiences. The qualitative analysis of the text, carried out through dedicated software, has pointed out two super codes (aggression to social connections within solitude; no freedom encloses paranoia). In other words, “solitude” as lived experience is spatially contained in “aggression to connections” and “the absence of freedom” encloses the lived experience of constant and systematic danger (“paranoia”). This means that the emotional elaboration on Mafia, carried out during the group process, has highlighted thinking categories connected to the coercion of relational space which articulate themselves along t...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored teenagers' universe within specific social contexts where the presence of criminal organizations is significant, focusing the attention on the modalities through which evolutionary tasks are coped with in contexts with high Mafia density and often characterized by a perception of social space that makes personal, financial, and political development problematic.
Abstract: As a theoretical extension of other previous studies, this work represents an improvement of the notions about the relationship between adolescence and Mafia. The research has been aiming at exploring teenagers’ universe within specific social contexts where the presence of criminal organizations is significant, focusing the attention on the modalities through which evolutionary tasks are coped with in contexts with high Mafia density and often characterized by a perception of social space that makes personal, financial, and political development problematic. The research has involved 93 teenagers who live in southern regions where the presence of Mafia organizations (Camorra, ‘Ndrangheta, and Cosa Nostra) is significant. Six focus groups have been carried out, recorded, and transcribed. Verbalizations were analyzed through appropriate qualitative templates, which allowed detecting of three thematic macro-areas: representations of Mafia, emotions connected to it, and planning skills. The qualitative analy...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight how the simulation of pathology in the expert field is a field that needs further study as it is complex and at the same time rich in phenomena that does not allow an easy solution and which necessarily require the examination of different levels.
Abstract: Each clinical act, whether strictly therapeutic or expert in nature, presupposes an assessment of the credibility of our interlocutor. This necessary and preliminary act becomes all the more important as our doing gets closer to the expert (professional) dimension. But simulating a mental illness or, on the contrary, pretending not to have problems when instead you are afflicted by a psychiatric condition, are all behaviors united by the fact that the subject who carries them out, reports a lie with respect to the real condition, with motivations and purposes that can be completely different. Clinical analysis is the only one that can demonstrate and discriminate the real disorder from those who are not. In light of this, the present work intends to highlight how the simulation of pathology in the expert field is a field that needs further study as it is complex and at the same time rich in phenomena that does not allow an easy solution and which necessarily require the examination of different levels.
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