The concept of survivor guilt was first used to describe the feelings of guilt that people may experience when they survive loved ones, having escaped disasters or other traumatic events in which these people lost their lives (e.g., Hendin & Haas, 1991; Niederland, 1981; Wang, Wu, & Tian, 2018). More…
The aim of this paper is to show how the Plan Formulation Method, an empirically validated and clinically useful assessment procedure, can be adapted to the therapy of adolescents. According to Control-Mastery Theory, patients come to therapy with an unconscious plan to achieve their goals, disconfirm their pathogenic beliefs, and master their…
Dal Volume 30, 2021 di International Forum of Psychoanalysis This paper aims to emphasize the fundamental role of unconscious processes in our adaptation. We will point out how we are able to unconsciously perform higher mental functions such as setting goals and planning how to pursue them, dealing with complex data,…
Da Psychology Hub – Vol 38, No 1 (2021) Guilt is a complex emotion associated with tension, regret, and remorse (Tangney, 2012), and it is related to the capacity to understand and empathize with the distress of others, to feel responsible for it, and to the attempt to alleviate it…
Pubblicato su “Psychodynamic Psychiatry”, è il primo articolo che presenta e contestualizza nella letteratura recente la concettualizzazione della CMT sul trauma e le sue conseguenze. Trauma may be conceived as an emotionally overwhelming experience that is dif!cult or impossible to predict and cope with without a signi!cant alteration of the…
Termination processes in psychotherapy vary widely across patients, therapists, and therapies. While general guidelines on termination can inform ethical and responsible termination practices, termination decisions and processes are likely optimized using a case-specific approach. Control-mastery theory (CMT) provides a framework for considering the unique ways individual patients work in psychotherapy…
Il primo paper che affronta in ottica CMT l’interpretazione e il trattamento dei fenomeni della preoccupazione patologica e della ruminazione. È stato pubblicato, per ora in versione online, su Psychoanalytic Psychology. Per l’abastract, cliccare QUI
Il primo paper internazionale in cui si delinea il contributo della CMT alla comprensione e al trattamento dei pazienti con disturbi gravi della personalità. Research continues to support psychotherapy as the dominant approach to treating personality disorders (PDs; Bateman, Gunderson, & Mulder, 2015). Mostly focused on borderline PDs, reviews of…
Nel paper pubblicato da Psychodynamic Psychiatry sono sintetizzati tutti i dati delle ricerche fatte fino a ora con il nostro IGRS-15s,e in più dati nuovi su sensi di colpa intepersonali, desiderabilità sociale, vergogna e traumi. E dei punteggi di riferimento per valutare la “gravità” della colpa sperimentata da chi lo compila….
Il primo paper internazionale, pubblicato online da Psychoanalytic Psychology, in cui si propone un’integrazione tra il modello di cambiamento terapeutico proposto dal Boston Change Process Study Group (il gruppo di Sander, Stern, Lyons-Ruth ecc.) e quello proposto dalla Control-Mastery Theory Group. The aim of this paper is to compare and…
