PB008 - THE DIALOGICAL PRINCIPLE IN MENTAL HEALTH

courses

ID:

PB008

Duration (hours):

50

CFU:

SSD:

PSICOLOGIA DINAMICA

Located in:

CHIETI

Url:

Course Details:

PSYCHOLOGY OF WELL-BEING AND PERFORMANCE/CORSO GENERICO Year: 1

Year:

2025

Course Catalogue:

https://unich.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/af/2025?co...

Date/time interval

Secondo Semestre (09/02/2026 - 30/05/2026)

Course Objectives

The aim of the Course is to develop the students’ knowledge and understanding of mental pathology and to transmit a relational method useful in psychodiagnostic practice, as well as in the clinical and psychotherapeutic encounter.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:
The Course will provide students with updated knowledge to answer the following questions:
How do persosns with schizophrenia live time, space, Others, one’s own Self and one’s own body?
How do persons with melancholia live time, space, Others, one’s own Self and one’s own body?
How do persosns with mania live time, space, Others, one’s own Self and one’s own body?

Course Prerequisites

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Teaching Methods

Classroom-taught lessons with detailed documentation of case studies from the Teacher’s own clinical practice, simulations and analysis of clinical cases

Assessment Methods

Multiple-choice test: 30 questions (1 point for each correct answer)Duration: 30 minutes

Texts

Stanghellini G., Mancini M. The therapeutic interview in mental health. Cambridge University Press, 2017

- Levels of psychopathological inquiry and their purpose: understanding, diagnosis and care
- Descriptive, clinical and structural psychopathologies
- The “toolbox”: epoché, empatic, eidetic and dialectic understanding
- Psychopathological knoweldge as the basis for psychotherapy
- Psychopathological knowledge as the basis of qualitative research
- The lived world of hysteric, phobic, obsessive, melancholic, manic, borderline, toxicomanic, paranoic, narcissistic, affected by feeding and eating disorders and schizophrenic persons