Corso di laurea magistrale in Psicologia clinica

The course aims to give an overview of the historical development and practical psychotechnics, illustrating the various techniques through which this perspective of the psychological work is organized: the first attempts of psychology electro-dynamic 18th century, through developments in psychology and physiology applied in the 19th century, until you reach the contemporary context of psychology in action. Are described and discussed, in particular the most important paradigms of psychotechnics from the ancient times until today. For each model the conceptual foundations, the epistemological and methodological implications, the applications to some of the main issues and problems of the human condition are analyzed.

The student must be able to demonstrate: a) to know the lines of the historical development of Psicotechnics, illustrating the various periods through which it has developed: when psychology was not yet defined as such, to then the new applied psychology, until you reach the contemporary context. b) to be able to reconstruct the complex relationships between theories, the objects and the methods through which the practice of psychotechnics has been built historically. c) be able to analyze the conceptual foundations, the epistemological and methodological implications and the applications to some of the main issues and problems of the discipline. d) to be able to apply the acquired knowledge to analyze the practical development of different fields of application of the psychology in action within the psychological movement.

Analytical contents - Framings and reflections on the concept of "art of mind" in different historical and cultural periods: classical thought, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the birth of eighteenth-century electro-dynamic psychology, some of the leading models and some of the modern authors: Mesmer, Janet, Stanislavsky, Moreno, the phenomenological model, the psychodynamic model, the third force, the concept of psychology in action and the contexts of more frequent application of the art of the mind.

(1) Perussia, F. - Manuale completo di Ipnosi. Milano: Psicotecnica (Amazon), 2013. (2) Perussia, F. - Memoria sulla scoperta della psicotecnica. Milano: Unicopli, 2010.