DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY WITH LABORATORY

The course aims to provide students the knowledge of the following themes:

• The birth of the intersubjectivity according to joint application of a psychodynamic developmental perspective and a cognitive neuroscientific approach;

• The hiring process of subjectivation in adolescence and the influence of internal and external factors.

• Domestic violence and the effetcs of abuse and maltreatment on children.

1. The intersubjective matrix mother-child, starting from the physical, psychological and brain changes that pregnancy involves in women.

2. The process of subjectivation, threats and challenges that an adolescent meets in its growth in society.

3. Domestic violence and failure of the maternal function.

1. M. Ammanniti, V. Gallese. La nascita dell’intersoggettività. Lo sviluppo del sé tra psicodinamica e neurobiologia, Cortina Editore, Milano, 2014, pp. 1-285.

2. R. Cahn. L’adolescente nella psicoanalisi. L’avventura della soggettivazione, Bolla, Roma, 2000, pp. 1-197.

3. I. Merzagora Betsos, Demoni del focolare, Centro Scientifico editore, Torino, pp. 1-205.

C.M. G. Ciani (a cura). Medea, Marsilio, Venezia, 2004.