Zefiro Mellacqua
Biographic Data
| ID | 4496418 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zefiro Mellacqua |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zefiro |
| FAMILY NAME | Mellacqua |
| SIGNATURE | MELLACQUA Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yahoo (United Kingdom) |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7142-4156 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Coming to Light and to Life as Naked Selves: Eric Berne Memorial Award Acceptance Speech
In his transactional analysis approach to psychosis, the author has successfully systematized the transactional analysis theory and treatment of schizophrenia combined with lessons derived from psychoanalytic literature and his direct clinical work with psychotic patients treated both in outpatient, community-based teams and psychiatric home treatment settings. It is precisely from home treatment and outpatient settings that it has been possible …
When a Mind Breaks Down: A Brief History of Efforts to Understand Schizophrenia
The author explores how the psychiatric concept of schizophrenia has evolved over time and offers a brief overview of the most well-known trends in biological research. He claims that contemporary neuroscientific studies have started to focus on more subtle interactions between biological and environmental (early biological insults, use of illicit drugs, etc.) as well as social determinants (including traumatic childhood experiences, severe menta…
Transactional Analysis of Schizophrenia: The Naked Self
When Spirit Comes to Mind: Furthering Transactional Analysis Understandings of Spirituality in Health and Psychopathology
Moving from the pioneering work of transactional analyst Muriel James (1981) on the human spirit, the author returns to Eric Berne’s (1972) humanistic reflections on the problem of “man’s essence or Self” (p. 438) as a basis for critically reviewing the best-known transactional analysis contributions on religious and nonreligious spirituality. Case material is used to argue that there is a need to advance the transactional analysis understanding …
Beyond Symbiosis: The Role of Primal Exclusions in Schizophrenic Psychosis
This article is based on years of clinical experience with adult psychotic patients, including both those who are chronic and those experiencing their first episode of schizophrenia. These patients live in the London borough of Lambeth in South East London, which is recognized as having one of the highest rates of psychosis in the United Kingdom and probably in Europe (Kirkbride et al., 2006). The author first describes Berne’s (1957/1969) views …
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Beyond Symbiosis: The Role of Primal Exclusions in Schizophrenic Psychosis
This article is based on years of clinical experience with adult psychotic patients, including both those who are chronic and those experiencing their first episode of schizophrenia. These patients live in the London borough of Lambeth in South East London, which is recognized as having one of the highest rates of psychosis in the United Kingdom and probably in Europe (Kirkbride et al., 2006). The author first describes Berne’s (1957/1969) views …
When Spirit Comes to Mind: Furthering Transactional Analysis Understandings of Spirituality in Health and Psychopathology
Moving from the pioneering work of transactional analyst Muriel James (1981) on the human spirit, the author returns to Eric Berne’s (1972) humanistic reflections on the problem of “man’s essence or Self” (p. 438) as a basis for critically reviewing the best-known transactional analysis contributions on religious and nonreligious spirituality. Case material is used to argue that there is a need to advance the transactional analysis understanding …
When a Mind Breaks Down: A Brief History of Efforts to Understand Schizophrenia
The author explores how the psychiatric concept of schizophrenia has evolved over time and offers a brief overview of the most well-known trends in biological research. He claims that contemporary neuroscientific studies have started to focus on more subtle interactions between biological and environmental (early biological insults, use of illicit drugs, etc.) as well as social determinants (including traumatic childhood experiences, severe menta…
Transactional Analysis of Schizophrenia: The Naked Self
Coming to Light and to Life as Naked Selves: Eric Berne Memorial Award Acceptance Speech
In his transactional analysis approach to psychosis, the author has successfully systematized the transactional analysis theory and treatment of schizophrenia combined with lessons derived from psychoanalytic literature and his direct clinical work with psychotic patients treated both in outpatient, community-based teams and psychiatric home treatment settings. It is precisely from home treatment and outpatient settings that it has been possible …
Psychology (4 works) · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy (4 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Id, ego and super-ego (2 works) · Personality Disorders and Psychopathology (2 works) · Psychiatry (2 works) · Transactional analysis (2 works) · Transactional leadership (2 works)