L’intervento psicologico clinico come mitopoiesi

The work aims at analyzing the relationship between the classical conception of myth, the proposal on them by Roland Barthes and a new interpretation of the myth within the psychoanalytic theory, based on the collusive process. The proposal is to establish a function of the myth within the systems of social coexistence and of relationship with social power

The relationship between health care users’ demand and the health care system’s response: a research on change observed in the health care system, in the hospital and in the territory

The present research study aims at exploring the representation of the health service within a group of hospital physicians and nurses. The objective is to identify how the symbolic dynamic of hospital workers shapes their own praxis. The texts of interviews with 25 hospital workers have been subjected to Emotional Text Analysis (ETA). Five clusters emerge from the analysis where the topic of giving life and avoiding death is central and where the hospital assumes a thaumaturgical and basically omnipotent role. This is in conflict with recognizing the limitations of therapy. Only in the background the culture of curing the patients appears, characterized by aggressive reactivity towards the crisis which leads patients to emergency intervention because crises are ascribed to deviances frommedical prescription. Emergency intervention is ultimately the kind of intervention which the hospital believes it is capable to provide. Another problem is the lack of filters provided by bureaucratized general practitioners, whose cooperation would be essential, but who are supposed to have no longer the necessary relationship with their patients

Editoriale - Editorial

The online version of Rivista di Psicologia Clinica (Journal of Clinical Psychology), founded in 2006, is now on its 11th year of publication. This is its 25th issue. Rivista di Psicologia Clinica was published on print from 1982 to 1997, including two short breaks. The printed version published 41 issues. In addition to 14 years of publication on print, there are 11 years of publication online. In addition to 41 printed issues, there are 25 online issues, overall resulting in 66 issues published by the journal. Let’s briefly look at our readers, their geographical distribution and the journal usage. The goal of our publications is not oriented to uncritically increase the number of our readers but, according to a coherent editorial policy, to develop the debate on the definition, methodology, epistemology and practice of Clinical Psychology. These aspect are linked each other based on the constant evolution of clinical practice in psychology and psychotherapy

Emotional textual analysis

Emotional Textual Analysis (ETA) analyzes the symbolic level of texts as a part of applied research and interventions. The method is based on the study of the association of dense words, words that convey most of the emotional components of texts. In this approach, language is thought of as an organizer of the relationship between the individual contributor of the text and his or her context, rather than as a detector of the individual’s emotions. A case example shows the use of ETA, with the assistance of specific software, in analyzing the interviews of the inhabitants of a city suburb with respect to their expectations of fulfillment and development in relation to perceived local opportunities

The detector control unit of the fine guidance sensor instrument on-board the ARIEL mission: design status

ARIEL is an ESA mission whose scientific goal is to investigate exoplanetary atmospheres. The payload is composed by two instruments: AIRS (ARIEL IR Spectrometer) and FGS (Fine Guidance System). The FGS detection chain is composed by two HgCdTe detectors and by the cold Front End Electronics (SIDECAR), kept at cryogenic temperatures, interfacing with the F-DCU (FGS Detector Control Unit) boards that we will describe thoroughly in this paper. The F-DCU are situated in the warm side of the payload in a box called FCU (FGS Control Unit) and contribute to the FGS VIS/NIR imaging and NIR spectroscopy. The F-DCU performs several tasks: drives the detectors, processes science data and housekeeping telemetries, manages the commands exchange between the FGS/DPU (Data Processing Unit) and the SIDECARs and provides high quality voltages to the detectors. This paper reports the F-DCU status, describing its architecture, the operation and the activities, past and future necessary for its development