The psychotherapeutic illusion 2021/1

NOVEMBER 2021

Summary

Studies and researches:

    • On the Freudian concept of psychoanalysis: an interview with Franco Baldini, Franco Baldini
    • The methodological and theoretical limitations of contemporary research in psychotherapy, Maria Vittoria Ceschi
    • Truth and pragmatic of truth, Silvana Dalto
    • Determined but possibly free: freedom of will in psychoanalytic theory, Francesca Guma
    • Freudian psychoanalysis and relational psychoanalysis: theory and clinical practice compared, Edoardo Meroni
    • Elements of criticism of the concept of scientific psychotherapy, Luca Salvador

Documents:

    • Cappello introduttivo ai tre interventi di Franco Baldini sul trattamento psicanalitico condotto da laici, Silvana Dalto
    • A long series of mistakes and a conviction. (Examining a new verdict in the Court of Cassation), Franco Baldini
    • A note on a misinterpreted verdict of the Court of Cassation. (Appendix to my «Answer to Memory on “lay psychoanalysis” by Prof. Dazzi and Prof. Lingiardi»), Franco Baldini
    • Response to Memory on lay psychoanalysis by Prof. Dazzi and Prof. Lingiardi, Franco Baldini
    • Recensione a Lo statuto giuridico della psicanalisi di Roberto Cheloni e Riccardo Mazzariol, Silvana Dalto

Studies and researches

On the Freudian concept of psychoanalysis: an interview with Franco Baldini
Franco Baldini

This interview presents the contributions made by F. Baldini to the Freudian project of psychoanalysis as a science of nature which he has fully incorporated…

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The methodological and theoretical limitations of contemporary research in psychotherapy
Maria Vittoria Ceschi

The purpose of the article is to present how research in psychotherapy is flawed by methodological and theoretical errors that have to do with both a misconception of the clinical moment…

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Truth and pragmatic of truth
Silvana Dalto

Psychoanalysis does not have the purpose to heal the patient, but rather to gain knowledge of the unconscious psychic processes. However, the theoretical truth of the analytical constructions is also the necessary condition for the disappearance of the symptoms…

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Determined but possibly free: freedom of will in psychoanalytic theory
Francesca Guma

This article examines the psychoanalytical theory of the freedom of will. In the context of ancient and recent debates about free will Freudian thinking has mostly been seen as a position of the denial of freedom…

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Freudian psychoanalysis and relational psychoanalysis: theory and clinical practice compared
Edoardo Meroni

This article aims to show the basic incompatibility that lays between the relational psychoanalytical theory and the Freudian one…

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Elements of criticism of the concept of scientific psychotherapy
Luca Salvador

This article critically analyzes the concept of scientific psychotherapy. It shows how a whole range of problems – which arise from studying both the specific psychotherapies and their multiform set…

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Documents

Cappello introduttivo ai tre interventi di Franco Baldini sul trattamento psicanalitico condotto da laici

Silvana Dalto

A long series of mistakes and a conviction. (Examining a new verdict in the Court of Cassation)
Franco Baldini

This will examine a recent verdict in 2020 in the Court of Cassation concerning the con- viction of a lay analyst for illegal practice of the psychotherapeutic profession…

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A note on a misinterpreted verdict of the Court of Cassation. (Appendix to my «Answer to Memory on “lay psychoanalysis” by Prof. Dazzi and Prof. Lingiardi»)
Franco Baldini

Following a sentence imposed by the Court of Cassation in 2011 to a lay psychoanalyst, a paradoxical situation arose which thwarts the ambiguity of many false supporters of lay psychoanalysis, who are always ready to mourn its demise…

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Response to Memory on lay psychoanalysis by Prof. Dazzi and Prof. Lingiardi
Franco Baldini

This article shows the unfounded nature of the objections of validity levelled at the SPF by Prof. Dazzi and Prof. Lingiardi in its statement about the so-called «Ossicini» Law, which considers the practice of Freudian psychoanalysis…

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Recensione a Lo statuto giuridico della psicanalisi di Roberto Cheloni e Riccardo Mazzariol

Silvana Dalto