CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY OF DEVIANCE

Academic Year 2016/2017 - 1° Year - Curriculum Curriculum B - Giuridico-Sociale - Istituzionale
Teaching Staff: Giovanni LO CASTRO
Credit Value: 9
Scientific field: M-PSI/08 - CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
Taught classes: 36 hours
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Detailed Course Content

Focus of the processes that contribute to the construction of gender identification. It will be encouraged to develop a critical view of the most common stereotypes of interpretation of reality, making use of knowledge that comes from developmental psychology from ethology, sociology, anthropology and psychoanalysis. What is normal and what is not? The question of deviance from the norm is the crucial starting point to define some human characteristics, among them the relationship with sexuality. It will be discussed the feminist issues and aspects of his stay in our historical moment and the issues associated with male homosexuality and female sexuality and the afterlife. The enigma of the enjoyment "normal" and "perverse", the "sex addiction" and the use of the body in society "post-human". The recent discoveries of neuroscience and their relationship with psychology and psychoanalysis, will allow a better understanding of "the enigma of pleasure."


Textbook Information

1. - Vitelli R. e Valerio P. (a cura di), Sesso e genere: uno sguardo tra storia e nuove prospettive. Liguori Editore, Na. 2012. p. 315.
2. - Ansermet F. Magistretti P. Gli enigmi del piacere. Bollati-Boringhieri, Mi. 2012. P. 172
3. - Mambrini L. Lacan e il femminismo contemporaneo. Quodlibet studio, Mc. 2010. P. 140

A text of your choice:
- Lolli F. L’epoca dell’inconshow, ed Mimesis
- Recalcati M. - L’uomo senza inconscio. Raffaello Cortina editore, Mi. 2008. Cap. 1-10 pp. 190.