Skip to main navigation menu Skip to main content Skip to site footer

A PARTIRE DALLA COIRAG: Giornate Franco Fasolo 2022 e Seminario Lingiardi e McWilliams

No. 2 (2022)

Ten Angles of Vision on Individual Differences

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3280/gruoa2-2022oa19791
Submitted
marzo 20, 2025
Published
2025-04-04

Abstract

This paper explores ten ways of thinking about personal differences, with emphasis on the clinical implications of each angle of vision on individuality. Each individual is born with a different in-born temperament, the causes of which are not simply genetic but also environmental. Attachment patterns and their consequent behaviors in relationship are explored. Attention is drawn on individual defensive organization, implicit cognitions, affective patterns, the organizing motivational system, individualistic versus communal orientation, internalized object relations, inner working models, and schemas as clinically valuable ways of understanding each person’s unique psychic life.

References

  1. Feinstein R. (2021). Personality disorders. Oxford: OUP.
  2. Lingiardi V. e McWilliams N. (2017). Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual: PDM-2 (second edition). New York, London: The Guilford Press (trad. it.: Manuale Diagnostico Psicodinamico PDM-2 (seconda edizione). Milano: Raffaello Cortina, 2018).
  3. McWilliams N. (1994). Psychoanalytic Diagnosis. Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process. New York, London: The Guilford Press (trad. it.: La diagnosi psicoanalitica. Roma: Astrolabio, 1999).
  4. McWilliams N. (1999). Psychoanalytic Case Formulation. New York, London: The Guilford Press (trad. it.: Il caso clinico. Dal colloquio alla diagnosi. Milano: Raffaello Cortina, 2002).
  5. McWilliams N. (2021). Psychoanalytic Supervision. New York, London: The Guildford Press (trad. it.: La supervisione. Teoria e pratica psicoanalitiche. Milano: Raffaello Cortina, 2022).
  6. Solms M. (2023). La fonte nascosta. Un viaggio alle origini della coscienza. Milano: Adelphi.

Metrics

Metrics Loading ...