C.I.R.S.O.P.E.
Our business is dedicated to the psychoanalyst, Dr. Vittorio Volpi, who worked in Milano until 16th October 1998, the day that he died.
In 1996, he decided to re-establish the old Research Centre for Educational Psychotherapy and Psychodynamics which had been in business in Milan since 1975 and chose the new name C.I.R.S.O.P.E. - Italian Centre for Scientific Research and Psychoanalysis and Education.
Being deeply involved in research and innovation, we would like to provide, along with a brief description and bibliographies, a section of archived documents available for anyone studying psychoanalysis and all those who may be interested by it through this website. Up until now these documents have only been available for consultation in our central offices in Milan, in Via Voghera, 16.
Since his death, the centre has continued although at a slightly more subdued level than the business that Dr. Volpi would have been able to taken forward to the next level. If you would like more clarification on his psychoanalytical approach, please contact the centre (see the 'Contact us' link) where still today you can find out more about the characteristics of the methods we use as well as our clinical work, through training and supervision.
Psychology today
Many years have gone by since the passing of Dr. Volpi and much has changed within the fields of psychology and psychoanalysis (or psychanalysis as Dr. Volpi would say) in Italy. As always, there is an ongoing debate in all cultural spheres, throughout the world, regarding life and our upcoming extinction, on scientific methods and principles, on epistemology and so on.
We also have to highlight the fact that there have been many developments over time, developments which have maintained that the relationship established between the analyst and patient is central to the work.
Dr. Volpi's vision
Dr. Volpi's vision cannot be compared to what comes out of the most popular and well-known psychoanalytical school (you just need to think about the 'heresay' of putting the analyst and their parents in centre seat). However, this is where it came from and retained the same tools (e.g. the key role transference and countertransference plays, obviously modified according to paradigm shift). As we see it, this introduces an in-depth analysis into the continuity.
This in-depth analysis seemed to have been immediately understood (a good thing for us) and useful to 'non-professionals' who, reluctantly, are experts in mental distress and the effect it has on people they are in contact with. And it has brought to light extensive resources, which are mostly of no use, in their primary relationships. Today in Italy, these subjects have emerged from evolving psychodynamic and well as systemic therapies regarding the positive importance of the family, family relationships and their 'resilience'.
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