Clinical and Interpersonal Relations Psychology
The goal of the Doctorate Programme in Clinical and Interpersonal Relations Psychology is to provide students with a in-depth scientific preparation concerning the main trends in clinical psychology field:
• Psychoanalysis
• Systemic-relational approach
• Cognitivism
The Doctorate Programme intends to provide a good mastery and critical awareness of the methodological and technical instruments of clinical psychology.
The scientific programme is structured in three main Curricula/Tracks:
• “Clinical Psychology: psychopathology and theories of therapeutic techniques”
• “Methods and techniques of analysis of psychological processes and normal and pathological interpersonal relationships”
• “Scientific-cultural and existential contexts of the clinical and psychological ideas”
The track “Clinical Psychology: psychopathology and theories of therapeutic techniques” deals with theories and models relating generative interactive contexts of several psychopathologies as, for example, obsessive neurosis and narcissistic disorders as for psychoanalysis; anorexia and bulimia for the systemic-relational approach; phobias for the cognitive psychotherapies. Furthermore it is also focused on the implicit theories of the patient in psychotherapy, highlighting the biological links of subjectivity, the concept of “weak” subjectivity, the neuropsychiatric perspective, the subject and the interpersonal relationships.
The track “Methods and techniques of analysis of psychological process and normal and pathological interpersonal relationships” has a predominant methodological and research planning which requires both an in-depth knowledge of data elaboration and aggregation techniques and the awareness of any survey methodology limits. A basic assumption of this curriculum is that the clinical method has its own epistemological statute not reducible to other forms of knowledge such as the experimental method. In other words, clinical psychology is not meant to borrow methods and techniques typical of lab research, transposing them in our own field. The topics dealt with in this track are ascribable to the following: i) clinical knowledge: specific methods and techniques; ii) psychodiagnostics; iii) qualitative data observation, quantification and elaboration.
The track “Scientific-cultural and existential contexts of the clinical and psychological ideas” deals with highlighting the historical and cultural context where clinical psychology main ideas (theoretical and technical) were born and developed, with the purpose to run in-depth studies on main authors and concept in Psychoanalysis, Systemic-relational Approach and Cognitivism.
Cooordinator: prof. Franco Borgogno
Doctorate Students XXII Cycle
Claudia Ricco
ChiaraTodesco
Mara Vesco
Doctorate Students XXIII Cycle
Daniela Bertamini
Gabriele Roberto Cassullo
Eddy Chiapasco
Giuseppe D'Agostino
Laura Giovannelli
Doctorate Students XXIV Cycle
Cristina Civilotti
Martina Cussino
Michele Piccolo
Silvia Vianzone