Psychoanalysis and Architecture: The Inside and the Outside

Product Description This book explores how psychoanalysis and architecture can enhance and increase the chances of mental 'containment', while also fostering exchange between inside and outside. The way in which psychoanalysts take care of mental suffering, and the way in which architects and city planners assess the environment, are grounded in a shared concern with the notion of 'dwelling'. It is a matter of fact that dwelling exists in a complex context comprised of both biological need and symbolic function. Psychoanalysis and architecture can work together in both thinking about and designing not only our homes but also the analyst's consulting rooms and, more generally, our therapy places. However, this is possible only if they renounce the current limited and restrictive model of this interaction, and propose one more that is more in harmony with the questions and situations that clients themselves pose. Review "Metaphors of restoration or of moving house are often present during analysis to convey the idea of profound changes in the patient's emotional life. In this fine book, the author goes further, finding in 'creativity' the common denominator of psychoanalysis and architecture. These two 'sciences' continually cross over into art. The office of a psychoanalyst and the office of an architect are constantly called upon to become ateliers of transformations and inventive dwellings in the internal and external world. This book opens a door to new adventures of the mind. Definitely not to be missed."--Antonino Ferro, author of The Analytic Field and its Transformations About the Author Cosimo Schinaia

Psychoanalysis and Architecture

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Schinaia, Cosimo

Mental Health

Routledge

On Paedophilia

Psychoanalysis and Ecology: The Unconscious and the Environment

Psychoanalysis and Ecology

Product Description This book presents the psychoanalyst with the question of how our enormously modified environmental conditions determine our subjective mental changes and vice versa.The gravity of the environmental crisis is amply clear and yet, in the face of such incontrovertible evidence, there is an emotional, more than cognitive, difficulty in comprehending the present reality and its future consequences. In understanding the collective imagination as permeating the individual one and vice versa, this book investigates this relationship of mutual co-determination between the individual traumatic stories told and experienced in the consulting room and the positive or negative environmental attitudes exhibited by patients. The pairing of clinical vignettes with dispatches from the collective imagination sheds light on the confused affective investments and anxieties that propel pathological defenses, such as negation, suppression, intellectualization, displacement, and disavowal. The final chapter concludes with notes on the role of hope in a damaged world and the importance of integrity within the psychoanalytic field and beyond.This book will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and psychiatrists, as well as anthropologists, environmentalists, and ecologists. About the Author Cosimo Schinaia is a training and supervising psychoanalyst of the SPI and a full member of the IPA, working in private practice in Genoa, Italy. He is the author of several books and articles, including On Paedophilia (2010) and Psychoanalysis and Architecture (2016), translated in several languages. Psychoanalysis and Ecology is also available in Italian, French, and Spanish.

Outsider Art and Psychoanalytic Psychiatry (The International Psychoanalytical Association Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series)

Outsider Art and Psychoanalytic Psychiatry is a study of psychiatric institutes and psychiatric violence as seen through art created by the inhabitants of a psychiatric hospital.

Outsider Art and Psychoanalytic Psychiatry: The “Nativity of Fools” at the Cogoleto Psychiatric Hospital (The International Psychoanalytical Association Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series)

This book explores how psychoanalysis and architecture can enhance and increase the chances of mental 'containment', while also fostering exchange between inside and outside. The way in which psychoanalysts take care of mental suffering, and the way in which architects and city planners assess the environment, are grounded in a shared concern with the notion of 'dwelling'. It is a matter of fact that dwelling exists in a complex context comprised of both biological need and symbolic function. Psychoanalysis and architecture can work together in both thinking about and designing not only our homes but also the analyst's consulting rooms and, more generally, our therapy places. However, this is possible only if they renounce the current limited and restrictive model of this interaction, and propose one more that is more in harmony with the questions and situations that clients themselves pose.

A topical and complete examination of the phenomena of paedophilia starting with a historical overview and then proceeding to a psychoanalytic examination of its structure and treatment. Contents include: Social and cultural aspects fostering paedophilic behaviour; Myth and paedophilia, Paedophilic fairy tales and fables; The pederast relationship in Classical Greece; Paedophilia in the Middle Ages, Paedophilia in medical and psychiatric thought, Psychoanalysis and paedophilia; Contributions to the definition and typology of paedophilic personalities and behaviours through fiction; The paedophilic relationship; A case of paedophilic perversion; A case of paedophilic perversity; The work group.

Contemporary psychoanalysis has recently made a "paradigm shift" consisting of dealing with the discontents of civilizations emerging from the extension of the explicative dominion of psychoanalysis not only in the direction of social and political phenomena, but also in that of understanding the impact of environmental and ecological issues on the human psyche. New paradigms need new concepts such as the term "pandemic discontent", contained in the title of the present book. The concept of "pandemic discontents" refers to Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents" in order to focus on those anthropological mutations, including the expansion of technologies and the mutations of ecology, which represent irreversible fractures which have shifted a part of humanity in the face of the fragility of the social and cultural structures on which, as Kaës writes, the permanence of a civilization is based, or even the human species itself. And dealing with the discontents of civilizations leads psychoanalysis to a challenge which has not yet been completely assimilated, i.e. to measure up to the social dynamics and no longer only the intra-psychic ones, and to think of these changes as 'extra-psychic conditions', as Kaës defines them, which provide a framework or a setting for the formation of the psychic apparatus, for the forms of subjectivity that derive from them and for the sufferings they have produced. After the foreword written by Nancy McWilliams, "Psychotherapy in a Pandemic", written during lockdown in NY and dealing with therapists' feelings during online consultations, after the introduction written by the editor, Giuseppe Leo, the section "Psychoanalysis in Pandemic Times" (writings by Anna Ferruta, Hilda Catz, Giuseppe Riefolo, Merav Roth, and Cosimo Schinaia) concerns how to apply analysis to the Covid-19 crisis (psychoanalysis as a tool for interpretation of the pandemic crisis at various levels, individual, social, political) but also how to practice analysis under the Covid-19 pandemic (dealing with the conditions under which the practise of psychoanalysis is possible in such an unprecedented global context). The section "When the psychoanalyst is the patient" contains the memoir written by Pietro Roberto Goisis, a Milan-based psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who survived the coronavirus. In this pandemic both analyst and patient have to deal with a dangerous external reality, with the supplementary task for therapist of helping the p

Fear of Lockdown Psychoanalysis, Pandemic Discontents and Climate Change: Frenis Zero Press

McWilliams, Nancy

Ferruta, Anna

Religion & Spirituality

Frenis Zero

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Psychoanalysis and Architecture

On Paedophilia

Psychoanalysis and Ecology

Psychoanalysis and Ecology: The Unconscious and the Environment

Outsider Art and Psychoanalytic Psychiatry (The International Psychoanalytical Association Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series)

Outsider Art and Psychoanalytic Psychiatry: The “Nativity of Fools” at the Cogoleto Psychiatric Hospital (The International Psychoanalytical Association Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series)

Psychoanalysis and Architecture: The Inside and the Outside

On Paedophilia

Fear of Lockdown Psychoanalysis, Pandemic Discontents and Climate Change: Frenis Zero Press