In recent years the family has changed profoundly, as have the educational models proposed by television and social media, now abandoned and branded as inappropriate if not harmful the authoritarian model that was very much in vogue in previous years, the democratic model. permissive and the overprotective model have taken over among parents as [...]
As Einstein put it: “it takes a new way of thinking to solve the problems produced by the old way of thinking”. During the Middle Ages, a master of the art of Chinese warfare traveled through Europe; guest of a prince he found himself attending a knightly tournament. At that time the [...]
"Who does not restrain the will with beasts will accompany" (Leonardo Da Vinci) The idea of control in our culture is much older than Leonardo's time, as testified by Herodotus about two thousand years earlier: "Of all human miseries, the most bitter is this: knowing so little and having no control over anything ". Man has always [...]
Clinical picture of a difficult to recognize disorder Binge eating, according to traditional psychiatric nosography, is an eating disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of bingeing. On closer inspection, however, what actually happens is that those suffering from this disorder spend days eating too little or not eating [...]
The therapist tries to produce in the patient a "corrective emotional experience" that allows the person to change perspective ...
Once the Vomiting Syndrome has established itself, the problem is no longer keeping food under control, but the compulsion to pleasure ...
A frequent terminological confusion concerns the definition of distress. Being distressed is very different from being anxious ...
If a person affected by fear is sedated in his anxiety reactions, physiological activation is blocked but the perception of fear is not eliminated
It all starts here: the Mental Research Institute was born in Palo Alto thanks to the insights of Don D. Jackson ...
A rigorous but elastic model of intervention has been created and adaptable to the evolution of therapy ...
There are numerous studies relating to new technologies, but no one defines the "right" connection time ...
Compulsive obsession can creep into the mind until it completely devours sound reasonableness ...