Elena Molinari
Biographic Data
| ID | 4504179 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elena Molinari |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elena |
| FAMILY NAME | Molinari |
| SIGNATURE | MOLINARI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Viale Campari 10/C27100 PaviaItaly |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5135-4584 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Difficult Beginning
The author distinguishes between two kinds of beginning, conceptually tied to two ways of approaching the psychoanalytic situation described as epistemological and ontological. Through a clinical case, the author shows how her work with a troubled adolescent had two beginnings that corresponded to these types. In this way, she tries to expand on the literature about the ontological turn, focusing on what beginning means in this context. For treat…
Working Through Transformations in Play
For Bion, one of the aims of analysis is to increase the transformation of negative emotions so that they do not exceed the personal capacity to contain them. Ferro described a transformation in playing as the possibility of giving the patient an emotion contained in action or a concrete situation, intuiting the underlying dream. A possible hypothesis to deepen the “transformations in playing” theory is that they can be a valuable tool to explore…
Intimacy and Autism
The concept of intimacy includes the idea of being open to others. But autistic patients have a hard time dealing with relationships, and for a therapist to become "autistic" is therefore an emotional paradox. Intimacy is a condition that involves others and requires the ability to maintain a condition in which emotional background noise doesn't interfere, and the body is free enough of anxiety to allow people to get onto the same wavelength. For…
Seeking Comfort in an Uncomfortable Chair
The author explores the concept of comfort in relation to the setting. The concept of comfort, an unusual word in the psychoanalytic lexicon, describes the intuitive and complex experience of patient and analyst being together in the analytic office. The couch and the chair are not the only tools of the setting, but they are potential instruments with which to study the therapeutic process, both in high-frequency therapy and in lower-frequency tr…
Field Theory in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis
The Anteroom
The anteroomTranslator’s Note: The Italian word for “anteroom” is anticamera, and hence the comparison with a camera obscura., Author’s Note: An early reader of this paper made an interesting linguistic point: while the English word anteroom seems to suggest an area that functions as a step toward the consulting room, the Italian word anticamera is more suggestive of a contrast, perhaps even an antagonistic one, between the two areas. is not only…
The use of child drawings to explore the dual↔group analytic field in child analysis
Awareness that the child is part of a complex relational system has ensured that all child analysts agree on the necessity of establishing a therapeutic alliance with the parents. Unconscious conflictual dynamics involve the child analyst and include him, from the time of the initial consultation, in an analytic field that is closer to that of a group than to the bi-personal set-up of therapy with adults. Through a clinical example, the author hy…
From Crumpled-Up Paper to Origami
In the course of an analysis, the analytic relationship can go through moments of difficulty generated by patient and analyst while they learn to "play" together. In this paper, different kinds of difficult relational moments are illustrated through fragments of a child analysis, and some components are explored that can catalyze the creative transformation of turbulence and the resumption of analytic "play." In particular, the author hypothesize…
A ‘quantum’ of truth in a field of lies
Following Bion's ideas of analytical research the author intends to consider the need to pursue emotional truth between patient and psychotherapist in order to produce a psychological development. It is shown through the analysis of a child how emotional falsification can distort first of all the definition of the child identity. Successively the attention is focused on how lies, as an unconscious element that twist the research of the truth, obs…
From one room to the other
Does the analyst who works with both children and adults using ostensibly the same theoretical model perform similar mental operations in these two fields? The author suggests that child analysis is rooted in a different creative process from that of adults. Comparing the analysis of children to painting and that of adults to writing, and making use of the debate between Virginia Woolf and her sister Vanessa Bell on the relative merits of words a…
Intimacy and Autism
The concept of intimacy includes the idea of being open to others. But autistic patients have a hard time dealing with relationships, and for a therapist to become "autistic" is therefore an emotional paradox. Intimacy is a condition that involves others and requires the ability to maintain a condition in which emotional background noise doesn't interfere, and the body is free enough of anxiety to allow people to get onto the same wavelength. For…
The use of child drawings to explore the dual↔group analytic field in child analysis
Awareness that the child is part of a complex relational system has ensured that all child analysts agree on the necessity of establishing a therapeutic alliance with the parents. Unconscious conflictual dynamics involve the child analyst and include him, from the time of the initial consultation, in an analytic field that is closer to that of a group than to the bi-personal set-up of therapy with adults. Through a clinical example, the author hy…
From Crumpled-Up Paper to Origami
In the course of an analysis, the analytic relationship can go through moments of difficulty generated by patient and analyst while they learn to "play" together. In this paper, different kinds of difficult relational moments are illustrated through fragments of a child analysis, and some components are explored that can catalyze the creative transformation of turbulence and the resumption of analytic "play." In particular, the author hypothesize…
A ‘quantum’ of truth in a field of lies
Following Bion's ideas of analytical research the author intends to consider the need to pursue emotional truth between patient and psychotherapist in order to produce a psychological development. It is shown through the analysis of a child how emotional falsification can distort first of all the definition of the child identity. Successively the attention is focused on how lies, as an unconscious element that twist the research of the truth, obs…
From one room to the other
Does the analyst who works with both children and adults using ostensibly the same theoretical model perform similar mental operations in these two fields? The author suggests that child analysis is rooted in a different creative process from that of adults. Comparing the analysis of children to painting and that of adults to writing, and making use of the debate between Virginia Woolf and her sister Vanessa Bell on the relative merits of words a…
The use of child drawings to explore the dual↔group analytic field in child analysis
Awareness that the child is part of a complex relational system has ensured that all child analysts agree on the necessity of establishing a therapeutic alliance with the parents. Unconscious conflictual dynamics involve the child analyst and include him, from the time of the initial consultation, in an analytic field that is closer to that of a group than to the bi-personal set-up of therapy with adults. Through a clinical example, the author hy…
The Anteroom
The anteroomTranslator’s Note: The Italian word for “anteroom” is anticamera, and hence the comparison with a camera obscura., Author’s Note: An early reader of this paper made an interesting linguistic point: while the English word anteroom seems to suggest an area that functions as a step toward the consulting room, the Italian word anticamera is more suggestive of a contrast, perhaps even an antagonistic one, between the two areas. is not only…
Seeking Comfort in an Uncomfortable Chair
The author explores the concept of comfort in relation to the setting. The concept of comfort, an unusual word in the psychoanalytic lexicon, describes the intuitive and complex experience of patient and analyst being together in the analytic office. The couch and the chair are not the only tools of the setting, but they are potential instruments with which to study the therapeutic process, both in high-frequency therapy and in lower-frequency tr…
Field Theory in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis
Intimacy and Autism
The concept of intimacy includes the idea of being open to others. But autistic patients have a hard time dealing with relationships, and for a therapist to become "autistic" is therefore an emotional paradox. Intimacy is a condition that involves others and requires the ability to maintain a condition in which emotional background noise doesn't interfere, and the body is free enough of anxiety to allow people to get onto the same wavelength. For…
Working Through Transformations in Play
For Bion, one of the aims of analysis is to increase the transformation of negative emotions so that they do not exceed the personal capacity to contain them. Ferro described a transformation in playing as the possibility of giving the patient an emotion contained in action or a concrete situation, intuiting the underlying dream. A possible hypothesis to deepen the “transformations in playing” theory is that they can be a valuable tool to explore…
A Difficult Beginning
The author distinguishes between two kinds of beginning, conceptually tied to two ways of approaching the psychoanalytic situation described as epistemological and ontological. Through a clinical case, the author shows how her work with a troubled adolescent had two beginnings that corresponded to these types. In this way, she tries to expand on the literature about the ontological turn, focusing on what beginning means in this context. For treat…
Psychology (9 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (9 works) · Psychoanalysis (7 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (6 works) · Unconscious mind (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works)