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The Black Swan di Darren Aronofsky. Lo specchio come indagine psicanalitica sulla pazzia

open access: yesRicerche di S/Confine, 2014
Darren Aronofsky's 'The Black Swan' is certainly one of the most emblematic and controversial movie of the recent years. Considered a masterpiece or panned brutally, echo’s a long line of films that led themselves to a psychoanalytic analysis. In attempt
Francesca Casella
doaj  

Dreaming conundrum

open access: yesJournal of Sleep Research, Volume 34, Issue 2, April 2025.
Summary Dreaming, a common yet mysterious cognitive phenomenon, is an involuntary process experienced by individuals during sleep. Although the fascination with dreams dates back to ancient times and gained therapeutic significance through psychoanalysis in the early twentieth century, its scientific investigation only gained momentum with the ...
Carlotta Mutti   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding Spontaneous Symbolism in Psychotherapy Using Embodied Thought

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences
Spontaneous, unwilled subjective imagery and symbols (including dreams) often emerge in psychotherapy that can appear baffling and confound interpretation.
Erik Goodwyn
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Trauma and affect in a Holocaust survivor's story: Rosita Fanto's novel Rozalia Alone

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract My article endeavors to redress the neglect of Rosita Fanto's Rozalia Alone (2010), which deals with a page of history that is less known worldwide, the Holocaust in Romania. Using a trauma studies perspective that mixes with affect theory, the article demonstrates that Rozalia Alone covers in a nutshell the whole magnitude of the late 1930s ...
Arleen Ionescu
wiley   +1 more source

Foundations of abductive logic in the Lacanian psychoanalytic operation

open access: yesMethods in Psychology
Este trabajo tiene por objetivo situar la lógica abductiva como fundamento de la práctica psicoanalítica lacaniana. La lógica abductiva, formulada por Charles Sanders Peirce, se presenta como un proceso de generación de hipótesis ante fenómenos ...
Marina Moreyra   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Relational work with distressing voices mirroring experiences of discrimination and marginalisation: Three illustrative cases of an extended form of AVATAR therapy (AV‐EXT)

open access: yesPsychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Background For voice‐hearers from minoritised communities, voices may reflect interpersonal and societal discrimination, including experiences of feeling silenced or ‘voiceless’. AVATAR therapy is a relational approach involving facilitated dialogues between a voice‐hearer and a digital embodiment of their main distressing voice (the avatar ...
Thomas Ward   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

The aesthetics of the shock, part I

open access: yesInscriptions, 2019
Even though Freud's well-known concept of the uncanny has gained considerable influence in the field of aesthetics and beyond, the meaning of the term still remains vague. Is it a mere psychological concept with aesthetic and social implications or is it
Tidhar Nir
doaj  

Exploring Black British African and Caribbean peoples' experiences of self‐harm and accessing support

open access: yesPsychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction It is important to understand the underrepresented experiences of self‐harm and accessing support among Black British African and Caribbean individuals because of the low uptake of support from formal healthcare providers. This study aimed to explore Black British individuals' thoughts, feelings and experiences of self‐harm, and ...
Olivia Alleyne, Vyv Huddy
wiley   +1 more source

Seeking help, doing gender: Gender differences in facilitators of psychotherapy use—A qualitative study

open access: yesPsychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Objectives This study examines how individuals “do gender” in their help‐seeking for psychotherapy, focusing on the facilitators that support entry into treatment and the ways these are articulated by women and men. Design A qualitative study design was adopted, guided by the theoretical framework of doing gender and complemented by a mixed ...
Yvonne Schaffler   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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