Papers by Giampiero Arciero
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd eBooks, Sep 3, 2009
This chapter contains sections titled: The LoserDisordersEndnotesThe LoserDisordersEndnotes
American Psychological Association eBooks, Oct 27, 2004
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Revista de psicoterapia, Nov 1, 2000
En la práctica clínica asisten a consulta padres con hijos puberales o adolescentes por problemas... more En la práctica clínica asisten a consulta padres con hijos puberales o adolescentes por problemas que presentan éstos; incluso en ocasiones vienen adolescentes solos en busca de ayuda. Tanto por razones psicoterapéuticas (viabilidad, estrategia y efectividad de la intervención) como por razones legales (menor de edad) nos planteamos con quién y cómo procede la intervención psicoterapéutica. Con el presente trabajo se pretende clarificar qué variables teórico-prácticas son importantes tener en cuenta para determinar en cada caso el trabajo con familias y/o con sus hijos adolescentes y puberales. Para ello se considera necesario analizar en primer lugar los cambios que a nivel general experimentan los jóvenes y sus familias en este periodo evolutivo. En segundo lugar se intenta comprender cómo estos cambios son sentidos y reordenados por los miembros familiares en función de las Organizaciones de Significado Personal.
Revista de psicoterapia, Mar 1, 2000
Se expone la importancia del desarrollo del lenguaje y como afecta éste en el desarrollo de la fi... more Se expone la importancia del desarrollo del lenguaje y como afecta éste en el desarrollo de la figura del apego. La figura del apego puede dar sentido a los estados emocionales del niño lo cual le ayudará con la delimitación del sentido de sí mismo y la consecuente organización de su personalidad.
Springer eBooks, 2018
Deriving from the new methodological approach of formal indication is the general principle that ... more Deriving from the new methodological approach of formal indication is the general principle that guides what we refer to as phenomenological psychotherapy. It consists in an interpretative understanding faithfully focusing on the actual occurrence of living experience, as this manifests itself to the individual, with no theoretical mediation. Then, this chapter focuses on the definition of the margins, themes, and disclosures offered by phenomenological psychotherapy while developing a radical critique of theoretically founded psychotherapies. The close engagement with the hot topics in psychotherapy research—the therapeutic relationship, intimacy, alliance, the individual differences, the effectiveness of therapeutic discourse, the common factors, empathy, and compassion—and with the answers that theoretical forms of psychotherapy have to offer with regard to these topics enables us to deconstruct the reflexive approach to therapeutic care.
Designations used by companies to distinguish their products are often claimed as trademarks. All... more Designations used by companies to distinguish their products are often claimed as trademarks. All brand names and product names used in this book are trade names, service marks, trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. The publisher is not associated with any product or vendor mentioned in this book. This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered. It is sold on the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering professional services. If professional advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional should be sought. The contents of this work are intended to further general scientific research, understanding, and discussion only and are not intended and should not be relied upon as recommending or promoting a specific method, diagnosis, or treatment by physicians for any particular patient. The publisher and the author make no representations or warranties with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the contents of this work and specifically disclaim all warranties, including without limitation any implied warranties of fitness for a particular purpose. In view of ongoing research, equipment modifications, changes in governmental regulations, and the constant flow of information relating to the use of medicines, equipment, and devices, the reader is urged to review and evaluate the information provided in the package insert or instructions for each medicine, equipment, or device for, among other things, any changes in the instructions or indication of usage and for added warnings and precautions. Readers Introduction Part One 1 Subjectivity and Ipseity 1.1 From Kant to cybernetics 1.2 The sense of self and the variety of experience 1.3 Nonlinear systems and the construction of the self Nonlinear systems Construction of the self 1.4 The organization of living systems and constructivism of the self The organization of living systems Constructivism of the self 1.5 Robert's self from a systemic perspective 1.6 The continuity of the sense of self 1.7 The return of the world and the question 'Who?' Returning to the world The question 'Who?' (Die Werfrage) 2 1.8 Finding itself in things and with others 1.9 Reflection 1.10 Meaning 1.11 Inclination 2 Ipseity and Language 2.1 Traces of the other 2.2 Shared meaning 2.3 Finding oneself in the world: suggestions from phenomenology 2.4 Body-to-body 2.5 The significativity of expressions and objects 2.6 Referential communication 2.7 Oneself in the mirror and in the refraction of language 2.8 Recognition of self in the mirror and in language 2.9 Affective engagements 2.10 Acting and speaking 3 Personal Identity 3.1 Speaking of the past 3.2 Stories of the future 3.3 The sense of self in the age of reason 3.4 The modes of identity 3.5 Inclinations 3.6 Situatedness 3.7 The body, pain and others 4 Emotioning 4.1 Embodied emotions and judgements of the body 4.2 E-moting 4.3 E-moting with others 4.4 Emotional inclinations 4.5 Constructionist situatedness 4.6 The impact of technology 4.7 Technological tuning 4.8 Mediated affective engagement Part Two 5 The Eating Disorder-prone Style of Personality 5.1 Co-perceiving the self and other 5.2 Disorders Anorexia nervosa Bulimia nervosa Binge-eating disorder Disorders connected to male body shape Behavioural addictions (compulsive buying, pathological gambling, kleptomania, internet addiction, impulsive-compulsive sexual behaviour, pyromania) 6 The Obsessive-Compulsive-prone Style of Personality 6.1 Michael Kohlhaas 6.2 Mr Prokharchin 6.3 Disorders Thematic personality disorders Obsessive-compulsive disorders viii CONTENTS 6.4 Case vignettes Uncertainty about one's own thoughts Uncertainty about one's actions and their consequences Uncertainty about one's sense of self Personalities Prone to Hypochondria-Hysteria 7.1 The Loser 7.2 Disorders Hysteria Hypochondria The Phobia-prone Style of Personality 8.1 Interoceptive awareness and emotional experience 8.2 'The stuffed bird' 8.3 Zuccarello the distinguished melodist 8.4 Case vignette 8.5 Disorders The distortion of personal stability The fear of fear What is the origin of distorted beliefs? Agoraphobia 8.6 Case vignettes Specific phobia? Spontaneous panic? 9 The Depression-prone Style of Personality 9.1 The margins of the problem 9.2 Enduring dispositions 9.3 The depression-prone style of personality 9.4 Disorders 9.5 Case vignette 9.6 Is depression an adaptation?
Springer eBooks, 2018
The core of this chapter consists in an engagement with theoretical biology. Touching upon Heideg... more The core of this chapter consists in an engagement with theoretical biology. Touching upon Heidegger’s dialog with von Uexkull’s work, by developing a phenomenological reappraisal of facticity, it reaches a new understanding of the difference between human beings and animals.
The failure of a way of conceiving and grasping man’s being starting from the question of what th... more The failure of a way of conceiving and grasping man’s being starting from the question of what that being is exactly (the paradigm of production) calls for an ontology capable of thematizing the guiding idea of man that has shaped the development of psychology and psychotherapy. What is suggested, then, is the outlining of a new perspective on man’s being, which is to say, of an ontology—that is phenomenological in its method of inquiry—capable of conceptualizing the incompleteness of existence. Phenomenological ontology thus presents psychology and psychotherapy with a new positum, ipseity, and, hence a new method to study it, formal indication. The chapter explores the impact of this ontology in creating a paradigm shift in psychology and therapeutic practices.
The central questions of this chapter spring from a theme already explored in the previous one: w... more The central questions of this chapter spring from a theme already explored in the previous one: what possible new relations with the natural sciences are engendered by the ontological and methodological release of scientific psychology from the paradigm of production on which it rests? In other words, how can a phenomenological psychology and psychotherapy open up to the natural sciences by cooperating with them in a relationship of mutual enlightenment? The new alliance between phenomenological psychology and the natural sciences most certainly revolves around corporeality. Corporeality is understood as a phenomenon, and hence something that is constantly in the process of being actualized and is not limited to the mere presence of the body as a material entity that ends with the skin. Then, this chapter introduces the phenomenon of corporeality and its intertwining with existence, the relation between corporeality and the body, and the topic of pathology—of the trauma, of violence, and its healing.
PLOS ONE, Feb 13, 2020
Peer Review History: PLOS recognizes the benefits of transparency in the peer review process; the... more Peer Review History: PLOS recognizes the benefits of transparency in the peer review process; therefore, we enable the publication of all of the content of peer review and author responses alongside final, published articles. The editorial history of this article is available here:
Springer eBooks, 2018
The paradigm of production, which grasps things as products, has supported the ancient Greek as w... more The paradigm of production, which grasps things as products, has supported the ancient Greek as well as the contemporary vision of man that constitutes the foundation of therapeutic practice. Thus, the theme of healing is understood in the light of the paradigm of production and hence of a way of accessing the motility of life according to a detached mode of grasping and discovering the world and the self, theorein, capable of ensuring a stable and enduring form of knowledge. Can the therapeutic care be regulated according to forms of knowledge other than the theoretical one?
Springer eBooks, 2018
The difference between human beings and animals is more fully explored in this chapter which eluc... more The difference between human beings and animals is more fully explored in this chapter which elucidates the difference in question in the light of the contrasting modes of enactment of the motility of life among living beings. These phenomenological analyses ultimately trace the humanity of man—and hence the difference between human beings and animals—back to the freedom of man to understand the things that meaningfully address him. From this perspective, ipseity manifests itself as the very possibility of the experience of freedom.
Springer eBooks, 2018
The Care of Self and Psychotherapy 11.1 Errancy and Therapeutic Care One of the key themes we hav... more The Care of Self and Psychotherapy 11.1 Errancy and Therapeutic Care One of the key themes we have been exploring in this work is the close connection between therapeutic care and sickness on the one hand and freedom on the other hand. We have conceived the experience of freedom as the open possibility of understanding what addresses us, a condition that belongs to man by virtue of his having come into the world, of having being born. We have seen how this experience is the cornerstone on which the distinction between man and animal rests. Whereas the latter is captivated by the enactment of the relationship with the environment within which it lives, man lets the meaningful things he encounters be; in relating to them, man brings them to manifestation and, at the same time, reaches himself precisely through what he causes to appear. Unlike in the case of animals, this relationship is not bound by necessity: man is free. This means that in relating to things in view of the world in its wholeness-a world which co-appears as a background beyond all objects, yet always together with them-man discloses the domain of sense and its problematic quality as he realizes his own experience over and over again. The experience of the world is therefore primordial, as Patočka clearly notes: "I grasp the world as a phenomenon, but at the same time I see that, while I can replace and modify any worldly entity, I can never do the same with the world as such, the world as a whole" (Patočka 1995, p. 237). This world in its totality, which includes the sphere of objects as such, is inaccessible to animals, who are bound to things on account of their instinct. From this perspective, ipseity manifests itself as the very possibility of the experience of freedom: as an ever-unfulfilled condition which enables us to grasp the meaningfulness that we encounter starting from a horizon, the world, which withdraws as we approach it, constantly regenerating our incompleteness, want, and precariousness. We thus once again grasp the motility of life as an opening up to (Bezugssinn) what addresses us (Gehaltssinn) and actually realizes itself again and again (Volzugssinn) as the manifestation of oneself and appearance of the world. Clearly, the subject neither creates the world nor "forms" it; rather, in contributing
Springer eBooks, 2018
The phenomenological psychology and psychotherapy, which cannot access the meaning of experience ... more The phenomenological psychology and psychotherapy, which cannot access the meaning of experience through reflective objectification, must do so by grasping it in its enactment: by grasping the taking shape of lived experience in relation to this or that circumstance, as it actually occurs in everyday life—in different ways for different people. The specifying of what method guides us in grasping the way in which each person prereflectively experiences this or that situation is the cornerstone of this chapter. In the footsteps of Heidegger’s phenomenology, we have referred to this method as formal indication. In order to account for the incompleteness of each person’s being-there, this indication focuses on the intentional involvement without specifying any content. This method, which accompanies the taking shape of other people’s experience of this or that, enables us to study the way in which ipseity relates to the world in different situations, in a way that carries different meanings for different people. The analysis of a clinical case helps further explicate the new method.
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, Jun 6, 2016
Emotion Review, Apr 10, 2015
Since Kraeplin and Kretschmer, the clarification of the limits between ordinary sadness and clini... more Since Kraeplin and Kretschmer, the clarification of the limits between ordinary sadness and clinical depression has been a major concern. Much of the controversy has focused on whether and on which bases can be fixed a boundary in the continuum from the experience of sadness to major depressive episode. The new emphasis on the role of clinical judgment introduced by DSM-5 can be regarded as a way to address these issues, though leaving several questions open. After examining the implications of the main topics raised by this still ongoing discussion, we will argue that in a clinical reality both mobility and intensity of emotional states may account for the discontinuity between ordinary sadness and clinical depression.
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd eBooks, Sep 3, 2009
This chapter contains sections titled: The margins of the problemEnduring dispositionsThe depress... more This chapter contains sections titled: The margins of the problemEnduring dispositionsThe depression-prone style of personalityDisordersCase vignetteIs depression an adaptation?EndnotesThe margins of the problemEnduring dispositionsThe depression-prone style of personalityDisordersCase vignetteIs depression an adaptation?Endnotes
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd eBooks, Sep 3, 2009
This chapter contains sections titled: Traces of the otherShared meaningFinding oneself in the wo... more This chapter contains sections titled: Traces of the otherShared meaningFinding oneself in the world: suggestions from phenomenologyBody-to-bodyThe significativity of expressions and objectsReferential communicationOneself in the mirror and in the refraction of languageRecognition of self in the mirror and in languageAffective engagementsActing and speakingEndnotesTraces of the otherShared meaningFinding oneself in the world: suggestions from phenomenologyBody-to-bodyThe significativity of expressions and objectsReferential communicationOneself in the mirror and in the refraction of languageRecognition of self in the mirror and in languageAffective engagementsActing and speakingEndnotes
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