DIALOGICAL SELF Cambridge UK 2008 General Psychology Departement

DIALOGICAL SELF Cambridge – UK, 2008 General Psychology Departement - University of Padova “altre. Strade” – Social Cooperative, Padova present THE “CHAIN” OF PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCY ACCORDING TO THE DIALOGICAL MODEL 1

University of Padoua Departement of General Psychology THE “CHAIN” OF PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCY ACCORDING TO THE DIALOGICAL MODEL - INTRODUCTION - Claudia Della Torre, Gian Piero Turchi, Roberta Durante

THE “CHAIN” OF PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCY ACCORDING TO THE DIALOGICAL MODEL - INTRODUCTION - THE CONTEXT SIGNAL A “RISK” OR “EMERGENCY” SITUATION The signalling primes a BIOGRAFICAL CAREER (pervaded biography) The signalling remain a BIOGRAFICAL EPISODE (biografy) Ex. “How can I go on? ” Ex. “I’m sick, I will always be so bad” 3

THE “CHAIN” OF PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCY ACCORDING TO THE DIALOGICAL MODEL - INTRODUCTION - SEGNALLING OF “EMERGENCY” SERVICES TAKE CHARGE OF THE SITUATION HEALTH SERVICES Treat the physiological implications WELFARE SERVICES Identify a cause (ex. a “traumatic event” or a “ psychopathology”) Priming and mantaining of a “ILLNESS” BIOGRAFICAL CAREER Costs for the welfare and health’s systems 4

THE “CHAIN” OF PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCY ACCORDING TO THE DIALOGICAL MODEL - INTRODUCTION - DIALOGICAL MODEL THEORETICAL ASSUMPTION The discursive processes generate discursive configuration of reality OPERATIONAL PRAXIS Rhetorical artifices AIM OF THE MODEL: to change the discursive configurations of reality EMERGENCY, according to the dialogical model: It isn’t an “ontological reality”, but a discursive configuration, that is an “on going” reality that is generated by virtue of all the “telling voices” acted into a specific context of dialogical interaction 5

THE “CHAIN” OF PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCY ACCORDING TO THE DIALOGICAL MODEL - INTRODUCTION - OBJECT OF THE INTERVENTION: all discursive processes that are coherent with the maintenance of the “emergency” configuration and that drive the discursive processes toward a pathology/illness configuration AIM OF THE INTERVENTION: to change the discursive processes, promoting the biographical continuity instead of the crystallization of processes into an “illness” biographical career Decreasing costs for welfare and health’s services 6

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