Zurlo Maria Clelia

The ethnicity and work-related stress model (EWS; Capasso, Zurlo, & Smith, 2018, British Journal of Education, Society & Behavioural Science, 15, 1–20) integrated EWS dimensions in a multidimensional perspective combining demographic (sex, education) and individual characteristics (coping styles, Type A and Type D), cultural dimensions (acculturation strategies, perceived racial discrimination), work characteristics (work demands, work resources, rewards) and appraisals (job stress/satisfaction), in the prediction of psychophysical health conditions in migrant workers. The current research aimed to test the application of the EWS in a sample of Moroccan factory workers and hypothesised significant and specific profiles of associations between individual, ethnic and work characteristics, with psychophysical health outcomes. A questionnaire consisting of five sections measuring sociodemographics and individual differences (coping styles/personality), cultural dimensions (acculturation...

Negli ultimi decenni numerosi studi psicoanalitici sul legame di filiazione hanno avuto ad oggetto l'inestricabile intreccio fra le diverse dimensioni che lo caratterizzano: quella istituita, quella biologica e quella propriamente psichica e fantasmatica. In questa prospettiva il volume, che si apre con un'ampia introduzione della curatrice, raccoglie alcuni tra i più significativi contributi psicoanalitici di ambito francese sul tema della filiazione problematica. Esso si articola in tre parti: la prima (saggi di J. Guyotat, S. Tisseron, S. Faure e G. Pragier) s'incentra sulla struttura e sui meccanismi psicologici e psicopatologici del legame di filiazione; la seconda (saggi di R. Kaës, M. Soulé, J. Noël e J. Düss-von Werdt) affronta i rapporti tra filiazione e adozione; la terza (saggi di J. Guyotat, G. Rosolato e P. Guyomard) approfondisce le problematiche psicologiche connesse alle modificazioni dei legami di filiazione introdotte dalle moderne tecniche biomediche.

Lo studio fa riferimento al modello transazionale dello stress degli insegnanti elaborato da Travers e Cooper (1996) e mira a validare un modello del rischio di disagio psicologico da stress lavoro-correlato negli insegnanti utilizzando la metodologia statistica Combination of Uniform and Binomial random variables per l’analisi di dati ordinali (CUB; Piccolo, 2003). La versione italiana del Teacher Stress Questionnaire (Travers e Cooper, 1996; Zurlo, Pes, Capasso, 2013) e stata somministrata a 565 insegnanti provenienti da scuole campane di diversi livelli. I dati sono stati analizzati utilizzando le metodologie CUB per esplorare gli effetti combinati delle variabili demografiche (eta, genere), di personalita (Tipo A, strategie di coping), situazionali (Fonti di Stress nell’insegnamento), e moderatrici (soddisfazione lavorativa) rilevate dal TSQ sul disagio psicologico globale percepito dagli insegnanti. Dai risultati e emerso un modello statisticamente valido comprendente i seguenti indicatori di rischio/protezione: personalita di Tipo A; ricorso a strategie di coping problem focused, oggettivo, e centrato sulla soppressione dello stress; livelli di soddisfazione lavorativa globale percepita; livelli di percezione della fonte di stress poverta delle condizioni lavorative/mancanza di risorse. In: base al modello sono stati delineati specifici profili di alto e basso rischio di disagio psicologico da stress lavoro-correlato negli insegnanti.

The study aims to propose and test a multi-dimensional infertility-related stress model including socio-demographic and fertility-related characteristics, infertility-related stress dimensions, coping strategies and couple’s dyadic adjustment dimensions as predictors of anxiety and depression among partners of couples undergoing infertility treatments. Both members of 250 infertile couples filled out a questionnaire consisting of Socio-demographics (Age; Educational level; Employment status), Fertility-related characteristics (Type of diagnosis; Duration of infertility), Fertility Problem Inventory-Short Form, Coping Orientations to Problem Experienced-New Italian Version, Dyadic Adjustment Scale, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory-Y and Edinburgh Depression Scale. Hierarchical Multiple Linear Regressions indicated that the proposed predictive models for anxiety and depression were significant and had good levels of fit with the data. Gender differences emerged in predictor variables. Findings provide valid predictive models that could be adopted to assess psychological health in infertile patients and to develop evidence-based and tailored counselling interventions at centres for assisted reproduction.

The study proposed an application of the transactional model of stress in teaching elaborated by Travers and Cooper in 1996, and aimed to investigate the influence of personality characteristics (coping strategies, type A behaviors), situational characteristics (sources of pressure), and perceived job satisfaction in the prediction of teachers’ psychophysical health conditions. The Italian version of the Teacher Stress Questionnaire was administered to 621 teachers. Logistic regression was used to evaluate significant main and interaction effects of personality characteristics, situational characteristics, and perceived job satisfaction on teachers’ self-reported psychophysical health conditions. The findings highlighted specific coping strategies (focused on the problem, on innovation, and on hobbies and pastimes) and dimensions of job satisfaction (related to intrinsic aspects of job and to employee relations) buffering the negative effects of several job stressors. Type A behavio...

This study integrates different aspects of ethnicity and work-related stress dimensions (based on the Demands-Resources-Individual-Effects model, DRIVE [Mark, G. M., and A. P. Smith. 2008. "Stress Models: A Review and Suggested New Direction." In Occupational Health Psychology, edited by J. Houdmont and S. Leka, 111-144. Nottingham: Nottingham University Press]) and aims to test a multi-dimensional model that combines individual differences, ethnicity dimensions, work characteristics, and perceived job satisfaction/stress as independent variables in the prediction of subjectives reports of health by workers differing in ethnicity. A questionnaire consisting of the following sections was submitted to 900 workers in Southern Italy: for individual and cultural characteristics, coping strategies, personality behaviours, and acculturation strategies; for work characteristics, perceived job demands and job resources/rewards; for appraisals, perceived job stress/satisfaction and ...

This study analyses the psychometric properties of the Italian version of the Teacher Stress Questionnaire elaborated in England by Travers and Cooper in 1996. This Italian survey was completed by 863 teachers randomly drawn from a cross-section of Italian school levels. The construct validity of the questionnaire was verified by factor analysis and by measuring the internal consistency of the single scales. All dimensions measured by the Teacher Stress Questionnaire were compared for sample subgroups of all teacher levels. Several meaningful and reliable factors emerged from the factor analysis of the scales. The internal consistency of each scale (Cronbach's α) revealed satisfactory values. Teachers' age and school level were determining factors for all dimensions of stress explored. The Italian version of the Teacher Stress Questionnaire showed satisfactory psychometric properties and constitutes a useful and reliable measure to analyse stress in Italian schools.

Oggetto di questo studio sono i processi di idealizzazione dei genitori naturali messi in atto dai bambini in affido familiare. Attraverso l'analisi di due esempi clinici, l'autrice mostra come tali processi difensivi tendano a far fronte alle angosce e alla ferita narcisistica generate da vissuti separativi precoci e si configurino come costruzioni psichiche tese a evitare l'Edipo e la maturazione. In tal senso essi sono espressione di quella perturbata relazione primaria genitore-figlio che è all'origine del 'mal di affidamento'.

Background Research highlighted that Stressful Life Events have high incidence among infertile patients and significant impact on physical and medical parameters related to reproductive functions, but their potential role among factors influencing the infertile patients’ perception of fertility-related Quality of Life (QoL) has not been explored. The present study aims to investigate the associations of Stressful Life Events (Stressful events in the family of origin, In family pre-existing pregnancy difficulties, Health problems in childhood) with perceived fertility-related QoL in women attending infertility treatments, examining the potential moderating role of adopted coping strategies and perceived couple’s dyadic adjustment. Methods A questionnaire consisting of Socio-demographics and Infertility-related characteristics, Stress-inducing events in the couples’ lives Questionnaire (FLS), Coping Orientations to Problem Experienced (COPE), Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS), and Core an...

Educational systems play a pivotal role to prevent social exclusion and discrimination and to promote equity, mutual understanding and respect. Teachers, in particular, are required to take an active stand in supporting social inclusion, adapting their practices and developing new skills to successfully deal with the increasingly diverse range of learners in their classrooms. Therefore , enhancing teachers' intercultural skills and competencies represents a key priority in the contemporary challenging educational context. The present study aims at describing the psychological framework underpinning the development of an original e-learning tool created for teachers and educators to self-assess and to improve their intercultural skills and competencies. In particular, the study will describe in detail the Dryden and Constantinou' Model of Effective Communication and the Rahim' Model of Conflict Management styles, clarifying their application for the design of a Technologically Enhanced Educational Role-Playing Game (EduTechRPG), namely ACCORD Game, developed to train teachers to deal with interethnic conflicts within realistic school context scenarios.

Scenario-based learning (SBL) has recently received more and more attention in the training and education fields as a mechanism for providing active and generative learning. E-learning systems can provide a solid platform upon which SBL can be created and used to promote relational competences development , and to offer open source e-learning tools so to overcome common lack of access to affordable training resources. Within this paper a project called ACCORD to develop a new e-learning system to promote intercultural skills in terms of intercultural literacy, inclusive education and conflict management will be described. This project aims to prepare secondary school teachers from five European countries (Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain) to take an active stand against intercultural conflicts within the school context, by providing SBL and game-based learning approach. The present article will provide an overview of the ACCORD project, highlighting the theoretical framework underpinning its development, the methodologies that have been used, and the main preliminary outcomes.

Aim: This study aims to investigate the associations of perceived work-family conflict with nurses' psychophysical health conditions, exploring gender differences and analyzing the potential moderating effects of perceived job control (skill discretion and decision authority), social support, and job satisfaction. Methods: The study was carried out in five hospitals of the Italian Public Health Service. Participants were 450 nurses (206 men, 244 women). Self-administered questionnaires were used to collect data. Descriptive statistics and hierarchical regression analyses were conducted. Results: Female nurses perceived significantly higher levels of work-family conflict, anxiety, depression and somatization. Significant gender differences emerged in the associations between work-family conflict and nurses' psychological health conditions and in moderating variables. Work-family conflict was significantly associated with anxiety and depression in male nurses and with somatization in both genders. The associations of work-family conflict with nurses' psychophysical health conditions were moderated by decision authority and job satisfaction, in male nurses, and by social support, in female nurses. Conclusions: Findings suggest including gender-specific moderating variables for defining tailored policies and interventions within healthcare organizations to reduce perceived work-family conflict and to promote nurses' wellbeing.

In recent years the debate on issues on the beginning of life and on the ethical-ontological status of the embryo shows how scientific progress in the biomedical field has modified the traditional concept of birth and has turned the attention of researchers towards the antenatal phase. Then, the problems related to abortion, artificial insemination, pre-dictive medicine and genetic screening are the main questions put forward by bioethics. The new possibilities of observation, monitoring , care, and interaction with forms of nascent life, with embryos to implant in assisted procreation, to accept, reject, cure in relation to predictive medicine and genetic screening, has changed the experience of procreation, placing the theme of filiation as the focus of discussions and a critical analysis on new possibilities to consider. These changes elicit both the juridical view, which focus on the definition and regulation of the different ties that have been established , and the psychological research, which examines the impact of biotechnology on individual, familiar and social psychic life. The article, moving from a psychoanalytic and relational perspective, firstly proposes some considerations on the intersection of conscious and unconscious desires and representations within which the beginning of life always makes sense and meaning, and then describes the way these

This article, corresponding to a part of the restitution of a financed international research project between France, Brazil, Canada, Italy and Belgium, aims to offer a modelisation and qualitative evaluation of mediation care settings based on an original methodological tool that involves identifying the typical games at the foundations of creativity, following a multidisciplinary perspective. Therapeutic mediations are settings or devices organized around a "pliable medium," often artistic, like painting, modeling, writing and theater, which are very widespread in institutional practices, both in France and abroad. The scientific objectives of this research consist in a multidisciplinary exploration (anthropology, criminology, neuroscience, clinical psychology) of the process of creative symbolization understood as a process of transformation involving play. According to this orientation, play can be defined as a psychic process whereby a subjective experience can be explored with pleasure, and consequently symbolized and appropriated. Our fundamental and original hypothesis is that play is at the source of the creative process, conceived as a work of metabolization by the psyche of playful experiences during the different stages of life. The review of the understanding of play in psychoanalysis, anthropology, criminology and neuroscience emphasizes the richness of this model and the importance of reflecting on the typical games in the field of psychic care. A clinical example of treatment in a pictorial therapeutic mediation setting of a child with psychotic disorders makes it possible to identify a number of typical games as well as the modalities of interpretation of the therapists through play. These multidisciplinary studies lead to the presentation of a general table of typical games, and these first results highlight the richness of identifying typical games in clinical settings. Ultimately, the multidisciplinary approach shows the interest of the model of Frontiers in Psychology | www.frontiersin.org 1

The study proposed an application of the transactional model of stress in teaching elaborated by Travers and Cooper in 1996, and aimed to investigate the influence of personality characteristics (coping strategies, type A behaviors), situational characteristics (sources of pressure), and perceived job satisfaction in the prediction of teachers' psychophysical health conditions. The Italian version of the Teacher Stress Questionnaire was administered to 621 teachers. Logistic regression was used to evaluate significant main and interaction effects of personality characteristics, situational characteristics, and perceived job satisfaction on teachers' self-reported psychophysical health conditions. The findings highlighted specific coping strategies (focused on the problem, on innovation, and on hobbies and pastimes) and dimensions of job satisfaction (related to intrinsic aspects of job and to employee relations) buffering the negative effects of several job stressors. Type A behaviors and coping strategies focused on mobilized social support, suppression of stress, and not confronting the situation had main and interactions with negative effects on

Aims: Ethnicity and culture represent a novel topic in the literature on stress and wellbeing at work because there has not been enough consideration of them in studies of work stress. This paper aims to present a critical review and evaluate recent articles investigating ethnicity in the literature on stress and wellbeing at work to identify limitations of previous research concerning all the aspects related to the cultural dimensions in this research area.
Methodology: Pubmed, PsycInfo and Scopus databases were searched for articles dealing with ethnicity and occupational health for the years 1985 to 2014. The studies were divided into three categories as follows: ethnicity and occupational mental health, ethnicity and occupational physical health, ethnicity and work stress.
Results: Sixty articles were selected, 26 on occupational mental health, 13 on physical health and 21 on work stress. None of the studies used a transactional perspective or took as a framework of reference general models of stress that integrate all the aspects related to ethnicity with work-related dimensions. Most of the reviewed studies measured ethnicity as a descriptive category of the working population studied (i.e. country of birth, nationality, language, skin color, origin, racial group) or focused on the differences between ethnic groups and it has failed to consider the salient cultural aspects such as acculturation strategy, cultural identity and perceived racial discrimination.
Conclusions: The gap in the work stress literature on different aspects of ethnicity suggests further consideration of the potential role of cultural dimensions as individual differences or as potential sources of stress in work stress models and shows the need to develop and test a general model that integrates ethnicity and work-related stress in a transactional perspective.

Objectives: This study integrates different aspects of ethnicity and
work-related stress dimensions (based on the Demands-Resources-
Individual-Effects model, DRIVE [Mark, G. M., and A. P. Smith. 2008.
“Stress Models: A Review and Suggested New Direction.” In
Occupational Health Psychology, edited by J. Houdmont and
S. Leka, 111–144. Nottingham: Nottingham University Press]) and
aims to test a multi-dimensional model that combines individual
differences, ethnicity dimensions, work characteristics, and
perceived job satisfaction/stress as independent variables in the
prediction of subjective reports of health by workers differing in
ethnicity.
Design: A questionnaire consisting of the following sections was
submitted to 900 workers in Southern Italy: for individual and
cultural characteristics, coping strategies, personality behaviours,
and acculturation strategies; for work characteristics, perceived job
demands and job resources/rewards; for appraisals, perceived job
stress/satisfaction and racial discrimination; for subjective reports
of health, psychological disorders and general health. To test the
reliability and construct validity of the extracted factors referred to
all dimensions involved in the proposed model and logistic
regression analyses to evaluate the main effects of the
independent variables on the health outcomes were conducted.
Results: Principal component analysis (PCA) yielded seven factors
for individual and cultural characteristics (emotional/relational
coping, objective coping, Type A behaviour, negative affectivity,
social inhibition, affirmation/maintenance culture, and search
identity/adoption of the host culture); three factors for work
characteristics (work demands, intrinsic/extrinsic rewards, and
work resources); three factors for appraisals (perceived job
satisfaction, perceived job stress, perceived racial discrimination)
and three factors for subjective reports of health (interpersonal
disorders, anxious-depressive disorders, and general health).
Logistic regression analyses showed main effects of specific
individual and cultural differences, work characteristics and
perceived job satisfaction/stress on the risk of suffering health
problems.
Conclusion: The suggested model provides a strong framework
that illustrates how psychosocial and individual variables can
influence occupational health in multi-cultural workplaces.

The ethnicity and work-related stress model (EWS; Capasso, Zurlo, & Smith, 2018, British Journal of Education, Society & Behavioural Science, 15, 1-20) integrated EWS dimensions in a multidimensional perspective combining demographic (sex, education) and individual characteristics (coping styles, Type A and Type D), cultural dimensions (acculturation strategies, perceived racial discrimination), work characteristics (work demands, work resources, rewards) and appraisals (job stress/satisfaction), in the prediction of psychophysical health conditions in migrant workers. The current research aimed to test the application of the EWS in a sample of Moroccan factory workers and hypothesised significant and specific profiles of associations between individual, ethnic and work characteristics, with psychophysical health outcomes. A questionnaire consisting of five sections measuring sociodemographics and individual

The study aims to propose and test a multi-dimensional infertility-related stress model including socio-demographic and fertility-related characteristics, infertility-related stress dimensions, coping strategies and couple’s dyadic adjustment dimensions as predictors of anxiety and depression among partners of couples undergoing infertility treatments. Both members of 250 infertile couples filled out a questionnaire consisting of Socio-demographics (Age; Educational level; Employment status), Fertility-related characteristics (Type of diagnosis; Duration of infertility), Fertility Problem Inventory-Short Form, Coping Orientations to Problem Experienced-New Italian Version, Dyadic Adjustment Scale, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory-Y and Edinburgh Depression Scale. Hierarchical Multiple Linear Regressions indicated that the proposed predictive models
for anxiety and depression were significant and had good levels of fit with the data. Gender differences emerged in predictor variables. Findings provide valid predictive models that could be adopted to assess psychological health in infertile patients and to develop evidence-based and tailored counselling interventions at centres for assisted reproduction.

Purpose To investigate the influence of individual characteristics (age, gender, educational level, coping strategies), perceived couple's Dyadic Adjustment, type of diagnosis and duration of infertility on self-reported quality of life (QoL) and psychological health in infertile couples, examining the potential moderating role of duration of infertility.

The study analyses factor structure and psychometric properties of the Italian version of the Fertility Problem
Inventory–Short Form. A sample of 206 infertile couples completed the Italian version of Fertility Problem Inventory (46 items) with demographics, State Anxiety Scale of State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (Form Y), Edinburgh Depression Scale and Dyadic Adjustment Scale, used to assess convergent and discriminant validity. Confirmatory factor analysis was unsatisfactory (comparative fit index = 0.87; Tucker-Lewis Index = 0.83; root mean square error of approximation = 0.17), and Cronbach’s α (0.95) revealed a redundancy of items. Exploratory factor analysis was carried out deleting cross loading items, and Mokken scale analysis was applied to verify the homogeneity of the items within the reduced subscales of the questionnaire. The Fertility Problem Inventory–Short Form consists of 27 items, tapping four meaningful and reliable factors. Convergent and discriminant validity were confirmed. Findings indicated that the Fertility Problem Inventory–Short Form is a valid and reliable measure to assess infertility-related stress dimensions.

Background: Research highlighted that Stressful Life Events have high incidence among infertile patients and significant impact on physical and medical parameters related to reproductive functions, but their potential role among factors influencing the infertile patients' perception of fertility-related Quality of Life (QoL) has not been explored. The present study aims to investigate the associations of Stressful Life Events (Stressful events in the family of origin, In family pre-existing pregnancy difficulties, Health problems in childhood) with perceived fertility-related QoL in women attending infertility treatments, examining the potential moderating role of adopted coping strategies and perceived couple's dyadic adjustment.

Lo studio fa riferimento al modello transazionale dello stress degli insegnanti elaborato da Travers e Cooper (1996) e mira a validare un modello del rischio di disagio psicologico da stress lavoro-correlato negli insegnanti utilizzando la metodologia statistica Combination of Uniform and Binomial random variables per l’analisi di dati ordinali (CUB; Piccolo, 2003). La versione italiana del Teacher Stress Questionnaire (Travers e Cooper, 1996; Zurlo, Pes, Capasso, 2013) è stata somministrata a 565 insegnanti provenienti da scuole campane di diversi livelli. I dati sono stati analizzati utilizzando le metodologie CUB per esplorare gli effetti
combinati delle variabili demografiche (età, genere), di personalità (Tipo A, strategie di coping), situazionali (Fonti di Stress nell’insegnamento), e moderatrici (soddisfazione lavorativa) rilevate dal TSQ sul disagio psicologico globale percepito dagli insegnanti. Dai risultati è emerso un modello statisticamente valido comprendente i seguenti indicatori di rischio/protezione: personalità di Tipo A; ricorso a strategie di coping problem focused, oggettivo, e centrato sulla soppressione dello stress; livelli di soddisfazione lavorativa globale percepita; livelli di percezione della fonte di stress povertà delle condizioni lavorative/mancanza di risorse.
In base al modello sono stati delineati specifici profili di alto e basso rischio di disagio psicologico da stress lavoro-correlato negli insegnanti.

This study analyses the psychometric properties of the Italian version
of the Teacher Stress Questionnaire elaborated in England by Travers and Cooper
in 1996. This Italian survey was completed by 863 teachers randomly drawn
from a cross-section of Italian school levels. The construct validity of the questionnaire
was verifi ed by factor analysis and by measuring the internal consistency of
the single scales. All dimensions measured by the Teacher Stress Questionnaire were
compared for sample subgroups of all teacher levels. Several meaningful and reliable
factors emerged from the factor analysis of the scales. The internal consistency
of each scale (Cronbach's α) revealed satisfactory values. Teachers' age and school
level were determining factors for all dimensions of stress explored. The Italian version
of the Teacher Stress Questionnaire showed satisfactory psychometric properties
and constitutes a useful and reliable measure to analyse stress in Italian schools.

Oggetto di questo studio sono i processi di idealizzazione dei genitori naturali messi in atto dai bambini in affido familiare. Attraverso l'analisi di due esempi clinici, l'autrice mostra come tali processi difensivi tendano a far fronte alle angosce e alla ferita narcisistica generate da vissuti separativi precoci e si configurino come costruzioni psichiche tese a evitare l'Edipo e la maturazione. In tal senso essi sono espressione di quella perturbata relazione primaria genitore-figlio che è all'origine del 'mal di affidamento'.

Negli ultimi anni si assiste alla progressiva diffusione di dispositivi di gruppo che utilizzano “mediatori” quali la pittura, la fotografia, la musica, le fiabe, per fini terapeutici e di formazione. Emerge perciò l’esigenza di approfondire l’orizzonte teorico di riferimento che fonda queste pratiche. I saggi di O. Carré, B. Chouvier, B. Duez, R. Durastante, C. Joubert, E. Lecourt, K. Navridis, M. Ravit, C. Vacheret e M.C. Zurlo raccolti nel presente volume fanno in tal senso riferimento alla teoria psicoanalitica dei gruppi introdotta da D. Anzieu e sviluppata da R. Kaës. Essi mirano a presentare e descrivere diverse esperienze di gruppi a mediazione: psicodramma psicoanalitico, gruppi fiaba, gruppi con la mediazione del disegno, gruppi a mediazione sonora, gruppi Photolangage. Il volume evidenzia come tali dispositivi possano rivelarsi particolarmente efficaci per promuovere e facilitare processi di mentalizzazione e simbolizzazione nei gruppi, e mette anche in luce la diversità di utenti e patologie con i quali i singoli dispositivi possono essere efficacemente adoperati.

Indice
Introduzione - Estensioni della psicoanalisi e dispositivi di gruppo a mediazione - Maria Clelia Zurlo 
Parte Prima - Gruppi e mediazioni
Il gruppo e l´oggetto mediatore nella cura psichica - Claudine Vacheret
Creatività e gruppi terapeutici a mediazione - Bernard Chouvier
Raffigurazioni dei limiti e limiti della raffigurazione nello psicodramma psicoanalitico di gruppo - Bernard Duez
Il gioco delle proiezioni e l´Io del transfert in un lavoro sull´immagine dell´altro nella terapia psicoanalitica di gruppo - Klimis Navridis
Il suono e la musica: intrusione o mediazione? - Edith Lecourt
Gruppo, fiabe e interculturalità: una storia di gruppi - Odile Carré
Parte Seconda - Gruppi Photolangage
Sul ruolo delle immagini nei gruppi Photolangage - Maria Clelia Zurlo
Gruppo Photolangage e processi gruppali inconsci - Claudine Vacheret
L´utilizzazione del gruppo Photolangage come attivatore del lavoro psichico in prigione - Magali Ravit
Elaborazione del trauma e dei fenomeni dissociativi in un gruppo Photolangage di sostegno alla genitorialità - Maria Clelia Zurlo
L´utilizzazione del Photolangage nelle sedute di terapia familiare psicoanalitica: tentativo di trattamento delle situazioni di stallo nel processo terapeutico - Richard Durastante
Photolangage: una mediazione in gruppo per facilitare la comunicazione tra pazienti lungodegenti, familiari e istituzione - Christiane Joubert
Mediazione e transizionalità: raffigurazioni dell´intermediario in un gruppo Photolangage di formazione alla mediazione familiare - Maria Clelia Zurlo

Negli ultimi decenni si sono progressivamente diffuse situazioni in cui la nascita e l'allevamento dei figli avvengono all'interno di quadri prima considerati atipici. Le recenti modificazioni derivanti dai progressi biomedici e dai mutamenti sociali e culturali hanno reso possibili nuovi e diversificati percorsi della filiazione e della genitorialità.
Contemporaneamente, molti studi psicoanalitici hanno evidenziato come il processo di acquisizione ed elaborazione della genitorialità sia caratterizzato dal riemergere di immagini, fantasie, rappresentazioni riguardanti l'essere genitore e l'essere bambino, suscitando ripetizioni e riattualizzazioni delle vicissitudini e dei conflitti psichici che hanno segnato la nascita e l'evoluzione psicologica dei genitori.
Muovendosi in questo orizzonte complesso e differenziato, i saggi di M. Bydlowski, E. Darchis, E. Grange Ségéral, T. Ikiz, A. Nunziante Cesàro, L. Saviane Kaneklin, C. Vacheret e M.C. Zurlo raccolti in questo volume cercano tutti di esplorare, dal punto di vista psicoanalitico, le dimensioni psichiche attivate e coinvolte dai percorsi della filiazione e dalle nuove modalità in cui essi si declinano.

Indice
Maria Clelia Zurlo, Introduzione
Elisabeth Darchis, L'instaurazione della genitorialità e le sue vicissitudini
Monique Bydlowski, Fattori psicologici nell'infertilità femminile
Tevfika Ikiz, "Ho tutto, mi manca solo un figlio". La problematica della sterilità osicogena all'incrocio tra isteria e somatizzazione
Monique Bydlowski, Le infertili. Un aspetto della filiazione femminile
Maria Clelia Zurlo, Problematiche della filiazione tra ripetizione e cambiamento: un esempio clinico
Livia Saviane Kanelklin, L'affido come risposta e una filiazione impossibile: una storia
Evelyne Grange-Ségéral, L'adozione: un atto di passaggio o un passaggio all'atto?
Evelyne Grange-Ségéral, Il lavoro del negativo nel legame adottivo
Claudine Vacheret, Filiazione e omosessualità genitoriale
Adele Nunziante Cesàro, Filiazione e transgenderismi
Bibliografia

Recenti studi psicoanalitici sul legame di filiazione hanno sottolineato l´inestricabile intreccio tra le diverse dimensioni che lo caratterizzano: quella istituita, quella biomedica e quella propriamente psichica e fantasmatica. A partire da tale prospettiva i saggi raccolti nel volume tematizzano le problematiche psicologiche connesse alle modificazioni dei legami di filiazione che hanno avuto origine da progressi biotecnologici (procreazione medicalmente assistita e screening genetico), da innovazioni sul piano giuridico (l´istituto dell´affidamento familiare) e dall´intensificazione dei processi migratori. Ciò consente di progettare interventi di sostegno allo sviluppo in grado di confrontarsi con le complesse e diversificate problematiche della filiazione che derivano dai mutamenti della famiglia contemporanea.

Indice
Introduzione - Mutamenti familiari e problematiche della filiazione
Capitolo primo - Rappresentazioni della vita nascente: un contributo psicoanalitico
Capitolo secondo - Filiazione, tecniche biomediche e procreazione assistita
Capitolo terzo - Filiazioni problematiche e psicopatologie perinatali
Capitolo quarto - Problematiche della filiazione e sostegno alla genitorialità
Capitolo quinto - Il sostegno allo sviluppo nell´affidamento familiare
Capitolo sesto - Multiculturalismo e filiazione: il sostegno alla genitorialità in famiglie immigrate
Bibliografia

Negli ultimi decenni numerosi studi psicoanalitici sul legame di filiazione hanno avuto ad oggetto l'inestricabile intreccio fra le diverse dimensioni che lo caratterizzano: quella istituita, quella biologica e quella propriamente psichica e fantasmatica. In questa prospettiva il volume, che si apre con un'ampia introduzione della curatrice, raccoglie alcuni tra i più significativi contributi psicoanalitici di ambito francese sul tema della filiazione problematica. Esso si articola in tre parti: la prima (saggi di J. Guyotat, S. Tisseron, S. Faure e G. Pragier) s'incentra sulla struttura e sui meccanismi psicologici e psicopatologici del legame di filiazione; la seconda (saggi di R. Kaës, M. Soulé, J. Noël e J. Düss-von Werdt) affronta i rapporti tra filiazione e adozione; la terza (saggi di J. Guyotat, G. Rosolato e P. Guyomard) approfondisce le problematiche psicologiche connesse alle modificazioni dei legami di filiazione introdotte dalle moderne tecniche biomediche.