A5052254064- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Educational and Social Studies
- Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Sleep and related disorders
- Family Support in Illness
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Virus-based gene therapy research
- Mind wandering and attention
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- COVID-19 Impact on Reproduction
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Social Representations and Identity
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Restless Legs Syndrome Research
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Gender, Security, and Conflict
University of Naples Federico II
2015-2024
Federico II University Hospital
2013-2024
Psychoanalytical Association
2022
Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg
2021
University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
2020
University of the Humanities
2017-2019
University of California, Los Angeles
1965
Professionals working with refugees are vicariously exposed to complex traumatic experiences lived by forced migrants, which can lead the risk of developing secondary stress, burnout, and a poor compassion satisfaction. The current study aimed explore effects stress on burnout satisfaction in 264 Italian professionals migrants. Moreover, it examined mediating role emotion regulation between both satisfaction.A structural equation modeling (SEM) was performed test hypothesis.The results...
During the COVID-19 outbreak, individuals with or without mental disorders may resort to dysfunctional psychological strategies that could trigger heighten their emotional distress. The current study aims explore links between maladaptive daydreaming (MD, i.e., a compulsive fantasy activity associated distress and impairment), symptoms of depression, anxiety, negative stress, COVID-19-related variables, such as changes in face-to-face online relationships, during lockdown Italy. A total...
This study provides a culturally sensitive quantitative investigation aimed at assessing the post-traumatic symptomatology, post-migratory difficulties, and resilience of 36 Nigerian male asylum seekers hosted in province Caserta, South Italy. A survey composed by Harvard Trauma Questionnaire-Revised (HTQ-R), Post-Migratory Checklist (PLMD), Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) was administered to participants. Descriptive correlation analyses were made order describe mental health...
Taking a psychodynamic perspective, the present exploratory study proposes an integrated approach to explore forced migratory experience, focusing simultaneously on mental health risk and protective factors quality of subjective experience migration. We aimed evaluate trauma in-depth representations meanings asylum seekers hosted in Italy attribute their experiences. Levels resilience were first evaluated for twenty two Reception Centres; then, interviews administered. Six out participants...
Recent literature shows that the Coronovirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic has provoked significant changes in dreaming. The current study intends to provide an update about dream variable during second wave of COVID-19. A total 611 participants completed a web survey from December 2020 January 2021. Statistical comparisons showed subjects had lower dream-recall frequency, nightmare lucid-dream emotional intensity, and distress than first pandemic. Dreams higher negative tone wave. We revealed...
During pregnancy and the transition toward motherhood, a special time for restructuring of female identity representational world, dreaming may play an important function in psychic life. If we accept that psychological psychosocial risk factors influence representation during pregnancy, this article explores, from psychodynamic perspective, how presence/absence biological is represented into women’s dream narration. Forty dreams pregnant women (20 healthy pregnancies/20 at risk) were...
The recent literature shows an increase of breast cancer in women under 50, however still few are the studies which analyse impact disease this specific target age. This study aims at exploring most prevalent topics Italian blogs who have received a diagnosis before age order to understand their experience illness and characteristics women’s narrations different times after (1 year, 2 years, 3 years). We collected textual corpus 4 performed thematic analysis. Five themes resulted, which,...
The present study aims to describe the methodological procedures which led development of ASPI, a photo-elicitation method aimed at exploring life stories Nigerian asylum seekers. purposes manuscript are share research and protocol for similar methods as well as, through this, extract offer some operational practices criteria useful transcultural with forced migrants. questioning attitude researcher, intended praxis in research, combined psychological function played by participatory also...
The impact of an onco-haematological illness for children is a traumatic event that opens to pain, hospitalizations and interrupts the continuity daily life. It difficult child make meaning, share pain or ask question related because, often, parents doctors cannot find way communicate in suitable who remains situation 'unspoken', where, fear, anxiety space express.The present research-intervention uses methodology invented fairy tales groups with children, hospital, order explore...
Introduction: Within a wider international research project aimed at operationalize the psychodynamic construct of capacity to love (Kernberg, 2011), Capacity Love Inventory (CTL-I) is 41-items self-report questionnaire assessing six dimensions: interest in life other, basic trust, gratitude, common ego ideal, permanence sexual passion, loss and mourning. Objectives: The study validating Italian version CTL-I. Method: A total sample 736 non-clinical adults was administered checklist...
From a psychodynamic perspective, this paper presents comparison between pro-anorexia (pro-Ana) and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) blogs, which are all built on the basis of shared, symptom-ba...
Abstract The present qualitative study, through a psychoanalytic and culturally sensitive lens, aims at shedding light on the representations of Nigerian sexual trafficking phenomenon peculiarities relationship with trafficked women, from perspective five female cultural mediators who work in field anti‐trafficking. A semi‐structured interview was developed analyzed according to principles Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis‐IPA. On background complex process construction borders...
The study explores the experiences of five Italian social workers working in secondary reception centres with African refugee families an attempt to deepen feelings experienced as well their representations parenthood. A semi-structured interview was developed and analysed according principles Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). findings suggested that work families, compared single refugees, might configure a higher at-risk area for mental health, due copious individual,...
We present a qualitative study exploring the subjective meanings that five female Nigerian asylum seekers hosted in Italy attributed to their pre-migratory, migratory and post-migratory experiences, with an examination in-depth of gender identity dimensions. developed administered semi-structured interviews, analyzed according Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. On background breakdown produced by forced migration, we highlight inadequate integration process roles woman mother,...
Since 2015, the arrival in Europe of thousands asylum-seekers has thrown crisis certainties on which our continent built his common identity, configuring forced migration issue as a social, political, humanitarian and psychological priority. Researches field refugees are mainly focused their increased risk distress psychopathology, but adverse effects trauma also compounded by different post-migration stressors, including living difficulties, unemployment, discrimination. Taking...
The present study aimed to explore in-depth meanings and representations that 6 refugees hosted in Italy attributed their pre-migratory, migratory post-migratory experiences. We developed administered semi-structured interviews, analysed accordingly the principles of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. A total four superordinate themes emerged: past, case is over ; Committee as witness my truth Italy, Never Land future between agency delegation . past emerged a “case over”, which...
Abstract This article aims to rethink the clinical and social work with forced migrants through concept of “field” as it is described in context Bionian psychoanalysis. The proposed approach goes beyond individual trauma refugee, arrive at a clinic “traumatic field” that includes, but also overcomes, dyadic relationship searching for link between intra-psychic, inter-psychic dimensions. mediation “devices”, dream field, group witness will be discussed operational tools practice intervention...