Università Roma Tre

The course offers a comprehensive exploration of fundamental aspects of psychodynamic treatment and key intervention methodologies. Through a blend of lectures and guided practical exercises, students will develop a nuanced understanding of essential elements such as working alliance, negotiation processes, and the dynamics of rupture and repair, which form the bedrock of clinical practice.
The course further explores diverse themes, including free association, transference and countertransference dynamics, interpretation and insight, resistance analysis, enactment, affective regulation and mentalization-based interventions, as well as the use of reverie and oneric thinking within the field theory and intersubjective perspective.
Real clinical cases are presented and supervised in class, facilitating a reflective practice approach that enables students to analyze and understand what is happening in the "here and now" of a specific therapeutic session. Through this direct experience, students will have the opportunity to put into practice the theoretical concepts learned during the lectures, gradually developing their clinical reasoning abilities.