Luca Quagelli
Biographic Data
| ID | 4175700 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luca Quagelli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luca |
| FAMILY NAME | Quagelli |
| SIGNATURE | QUAGELLI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre Médico-Psycho-Pédagogique M. Winburn, Courbevoie, France |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-1983-3382 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Avant le silence, une écoute du corps et du cadre
Les auteurs interrogent le rôle et la place du silence dans le travail clinique avec de jeunes adolescents pour qui la fonction réflexive n’a pas pu se structurer de façon suffisamment stable. Pour que ces patients puissent se saisir du silence de l’analyste comme d’un espace-temps qui permet de plonger en soi et de s’écouter parler, un travail préalable est nécessaire. L’écoute du langage du corps et de l’acte, ainsi que du transfert sur le cadr…
Identification adhésive et identification projective dans les traitements d’enfants autistes
Sensory interweavings and relational openings in clinical work with autistic children
In this article, the author aims to shed new light on how sensoriality can be considered and deployed in the treatment of severely autistic children. Whereas psychoanalysis has explored in detail the defensive function that sensoriality can have for these patients, the author puts forward the idea that this can be used to further the differentiation and structuration of the body ego. Through some detailed clinical material, drawn from the psychot…
Continuities, discontinuities and transformations in the psychotherapy of a psychotic adolescent during the time of coronavirus
The author describes the evolution of the psychotherapy of a psychotic adolescent in the period when the pandemic induced their national authorities to impose lockdown. The difficulty of coming to terms with an ever-present reality that proved to be distressing for both the patient and the analyst, as well as with the violence and rapidity with which the external situation developed, leading to a change in the therapy setting, are at the heart of…
Sensorialité et émergence de l’objet
Dans cet article, l’auteur prend appui sur le matériel clinique issu de la rencontre avec une jeune fille autiste pour illustrer l’importance du travail de liaison de l’analyste. Celui-ci opère à partir de la sensorialité vécue en séance, afin de construire une limite structurante entre dedans et dehors, qui permette aux patients d’accéder à l’univers des relations d’objet
A Body of One’s Own: From Self-Cutting to the Cuts of Separation in an Adolescent Suffering From Traumatic Early Abandonments
The treatment of adolescents suffering from early traumatic experiences inescapably involves the encounter with patients’ concrete use of their bodies and actions. The clinical history of an adolescent girl reveals the relationship between traumatic transgenerational abandonments and self-cutting in the transference-countertransference relationship. Initially the patient’s body and actions were the only way to communicate experiences that could n…
Working With Severe Borderline Patients: A Clinical Study of Destructiveness and Its Communicative Potential
Destructive behavior is one of the most challenging aspects when treating severe borderline patients because both the therapist and the psychotherapeutic method are called into question. Drawing on three in-depth psychoanalytic sessions of a severe borderline patient, the authors present and discuss the communicative potential of destructive behavior in the transference relationship during treatment. A step-by-step analysis and the working throug…
Reading Winnicott: Return to the concept of regression to dependence
Drawing on Winnicott's renowned concept of regression to dependence, the author elaborates on both the creative potential and limitations of this notion, examining some theoretical and clinical contributions from his own psychoanalytic practice with neurotic and psychotic children. First, the author questions and discusses the theoretical difficulties that arise in the conception of regression to dependence. In particular, he analyses the matter …
Le rôle de la répétition dans la construction des frontières psychiques
L’auteur s’appuie sur le matériel clinique issu de la psychothérapie d’un adolescent psychotique pour interroger les phénomènes de répétition à l’identique, leur signification et leur possibilité de transformation. Ces manifestations seraient liées à des échecs de la rencontre entre le sujet et son environnement premier, au moment où les frontières psychiques entre le dedans et le dehors, entre soi et l’autre, n’ont pas encore pu s’organiser
On Delusional Thinking in Schizophrenia: Investigating the Communicative Potential of Delusional Emergences During Sessions
Delusions have often been considered incomprehensible, haloed with fear, dread, and awkwardness. Emotional encounters with delusions stimulate complex countertransferencial dynamics entailing the experience of the psychotic’s withdrawal from, and renunciation of, reality. We suggest that delusions represent unsymbolized emotional experiences that were so violent that the development of ordinary symbolization processes was prevented and, hence, th…
The dead part: An overfulness of emptiness—Some reflections on psychotherapy with young psychotic patients
Drawing on his experience of psychotherapy with psychotic children and adolescents, the author puts forward and discusses the idea that a psychically "dead part," "an overfulness of emptiness," lies at the core of the psychotic self. Through the presentation of his clinical work with Aldo, a psychotic adolescent, the author shows the deep sensorial, perceptive, presymbolic, and consequently preverbal nature of these originary psychic nuclei, toge…
Towards and beyond the Pillars of Hercules: Integration and transformation of destructiveness in child psychosis (the case of Amine)
Drawing on detailed clinical material taken from the first two years of the psychotherapy of Amine, a six-year-old psychotic child, the author shows how the destructiveness of the most extreme clinical realities can be transformed and integrated in the course of the treatment. During the first period of the treatment, the patient's continuity of being was missing and he could not control his body and actions. In this situation, destructiveness wa…
Pliable Media as Transitional Space: From Psychotic Indifferentiation Toward The Construction of Meaning in Schizophrenia
Clinical material from the treatment of a highly destructive schizophrenic patient is used to demonstrate the role and function of therapeutic mediations in promoting transformation and symbolization. Use of the Squiggle Game as a therapeutic mediation is shown to sustain the therapeutic process and to facilitate working through of the obscure and complex dynamics commonly seen in the treatment of psychotic patients. The Squiggle Game presents a …
On Becoming able to Play: Individual Child Psychoanalytic Psychodrama and the Development of Symbolization
In this paper, the authors analyze the relevance and transformative potential of individual psychoanalytic psychodrama in the treatment of children with severe impairments in symbolization. Central features of this modality, including promoting the representation of early traumatic experiences, are presented and discussed. Specific features include double-envelope containment of the co-therapists' group and play leader, consequent diffraction of …
The dead part: An overfulness of emptiness—Some reflections on psychotherapy with young psychotic patients
Drawing on his experience of psychotherapy with psychotic children and adolescents, the author puts forward and discusses the idea that a psychically "dead part," "an overfulness of emptiness," lies at the core of the psychotic self. Through the presentation of his clinical work with Aldo, a psychotic adolescent, the author shows the deep sensorial, perceptive, presymbolic, and consequently preverbal nature of these originary psychic nuclei, toge…
Continuities, discontinuities and transformations in the psychotherapy of a psychotic adolescent during the time of coronavirus
The author describes the evolution of the psychotherapy of a psychotic adolescent in the period when the pandemic induced their national authorities to impose lockdown. The difficulty of coming to terms with an ever-present reality that proved to be distressing for both the patient and the analyst, as well as with the violence and rapidity with which the external situation developed, leading to a change in the therapy setting, are at the heart of…
Reading Winnicott: Return to the concept of regression to dependence
Drawing on Winnicott's renowned concept of regression to dependence, the author elaborates on both the creative potential and limitations of this notion, examining some theoretical and clinical contributions from his own psychoanalytic practice with neurotic and psychotic children. First, the author questions and discusses the theoretical difficulties that arise in the conception of regression to dependence. In particular, he analyses the matter …
Towards and beyond the Pillars of Hercules: Integration and transformation of destructiveness in child psychosis (the case of Amine)
Drawing on detailed clinical material taken from the first two years of the psychotherapy of Amine, a six-year-old psychotic child, the author shows how the destructiveness of the most extreme clinical realities can be transformed and integrated in the course of the treatment. During the first period of the treatment, the patient's continuity of being was missing and he could not control his body and actions. In this situation, destructiveness wa…
Pliable Media as Transitional Space: From Psychotic Indifferentiation Toward The Construction of Meaning in Schizophrenia
Clinical material from the treatment of a highly destructive schizophrenic patient is used to demonstrate the role and function of therapeutic mediations in promoting transformation and symbolization. Use of the Squiggle Game as a therapeutic mediation is shown to sustain the therapeutic process and to facilitate working through of the obscure and complex dynamics commonly seen in the treatment of psychotic patients. The Squiggle Game presents a …
On Becoming able to Play: Individual Child Psychoanalytic Psychodrama and the Development of Symbolization
In this paper, the authors analyze the relevance and transformative potential of individual psychoanalytic psychodrama in the treatment of children with severe impairments in symbolization. Central features of this modality, including promoting the representation of early traumatic experiences, are presented and discussed. Specific features include double-envelope containment of the co-therapists' group and play leader, consequent diffraction of …
Pliable Media as Transitional Space: From Psychotic Indifferentiation Toward The Construction of Meaning in Schizophrenia
Clinical material from the treatment of a highly destructive schizophrenic patient is used to demonstrate the role and function of therapeutic mediations in promoting transformation and symbolization. Use of the Squiggle Game as a therapeutic mediation is shown to sustain the therapeutic process and to facilitate working through of the obscure and complex dynamics commonly seen in the treatment of psychotic patients. The Squiggle Game presents a …
On Delusional Thinking in Schizophrenia: Investigating the Communicative Potential of Delusional Emergences During Sessions
Delusions have often been considered incomprehensible, haloed with fear, dread, and awkwardness. Emotional encounters with delusions stimulate complex countertransferencial dynamics entailing the experience of the psychotic’s withdrawal from, and renunciation of, reality. We suggest that delusions represent unsymbolized emotional experiences that were so violent that the development of ordinary symbolization processes was prevented and, hence, th…
The dead part: An overfulness of emptiness—Some reflections on psychotherapy with young psychotic patients
Drawing on his experience of psychotherapy with psychotic children and adolescents, the author puts forward and discusses the idea that a psychically "dead part," "an overfulness of emptiness," lies at the core of the psychotic self. Through the presentation of his clinical work with Aldo, a psychotic adolescent, the author shows the deep sensorial, perceptive, presymbolic, and consequently preverbal nature of these originary psychic nuclei, toge…
Towards and beyond the Pillars of Hercules: Integration and transformation of destructiveness in child psychosis (the case of Amine)
Drawing on detailed clinical material taken from the first two years of the psychotherapy of Amine, a six-year-old psychotic child, the author shows how the destructiveness of the most extreme clinical realities can be transformed and integrated in the course of the treatment. During the first period of the treatment, the patient's continuity of being was missing and he could not control his body and actions. In this situation, destructiveness wa…
Working With Severe Borderline Patients: A Clinical Study of Destructiveness and Its Communicative Potential
Destructive behavior is one of the most challenging aspects when treating severe borderline patients because both the therapist and the psychotherapeutic method are called into question. Drawing on three in-depth psychoanalytic sessions of a severe borderline patient, the authors present and discuss the communicative potential of destructive behavior in the transference relationship during treatment. A step-by-step analysis and the working throug…
Reading Winnicott: Return to the concept of regression to dependence
Drawing on Winnicott's renowned concept of regression to dependence, the author elaborates on both the creative potential and limitations of this notion, examining some theoretical and clinical contributions from his own psychoanalytic practice with neurotic and psychotic children. First, the author questions and discusses the theoretical difficulties that arise in the conception of regression to dependence. In particular, he analyses the matter …
Le rôle de la répétition dans la construction des frontières psychiques
L’auteur s’appuie sur le matériel clinique issu de la psychothérapie d’un adolescent psychotique pour interroger les phénomènes de répétition à l’identique, leur signification et leur possibilité de transformation. Ces manifestations seraient liées à des échecs de la rencontre entre le sujet et son environnement premier, au moment où les frontières psychiques entre le dedans et le dehors, entre soi et l’autre, n’ont pas encore pu s’organiser
A Body of One’s Own: From Self-Cutting to the Cuts of Separation in an Adolescent Suffering From Traumatic Early Abandonments
The treatment of adolescents suffering from early traumatic experiences inescapably involves the encounter with patients’ concrete use of their bodies and actions. The clinical history of an adolescent girl reveals the relationship between traumatic transgenerational abandonments and self-cutting in the transference-countertransference relationship. Initially the patient’s body and actions were the only way to communicate experiences that could n…
Sensorialité et émergence de l’objet
Dans cet article, l’auteur prend appui sur le matériel clinique issu de la rencontre avec une jeune fille autiste pour illustrer l’importance du travail de liaison de l’analyste. Celui-ci opère à partir de la sensorialité vécue en séance, afin de construire une limite structurante entre dedans et dehors, qui permette aux patients d’accéder à l’univers des relations d’objet
Continuities, discontinuities and transformations in the psychotherapy of a psychotic adolescent during the time of coronavirus
The author describes the evolution of the psychotherapy of a psychotic adolescent in the period when the pandemic induced their national authorities to impose lockdown. The difficulty of coming to terms with an ever-present reality that proved to be distressing for both the patient and the analyst, as well as with the violence and rapidity with which the external situation developed, leading to a change in the therapy setting, are at the heart of…
Identification adhésive et identification projective dans les traitements d’enfants autistes
Sensory interweavings and relational openings in clinical work with autistic children
In this article, the author aims to shed new light on how sensoriality can be considered and deployed in the treatment of severely autistic children. Whereas psychoanalysis has explored in detail the defensive function that sensoriality can have for these patients, the author puts forward the idea that this can be used to further the differentiation and structuration of the body ego. Through some detailed clinical material, drawn from the psychot…
Avant le silence, une écoute du corps et du cadre
Les auteurs interrogent le rôle et la place du silence dans le travail clinique avec de jeunes adolescents pour qui la fonction réflexive n’a pas pu se structurer de façon suffisamment stable. Pour que ces patients puissent se saisir du silence de l’analyste comme d’un espace-temps qui permet de plonger en soi et de s’écouter parler, un travail préalable est nécessaire. L’écoute du langage du corps et de l’acte, ainsi que du transfert sur le cadr…
Psychology (14 works) · Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research (10 works) · Psychoanalysis (9 works) · Psychotherapist (9 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (9 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics (3 works)