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I Say “no”. You Say “it Isn't”. About a New Understanding of the Concept of Negation.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2020

L. Giorgini ,
M. Petrucci ,
E. Gebhardt ,
D. Polese ,
A. Mazzetta ,
M. Fagioli ,
A. Masini ,
F. Fagioli ,
M. Consolazione  and
D. De Lisi
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L. Giorgini
Affiliation:
Medicina Sperimentale, Università di Roma Sapienza, Rome, Italy
M. Petrucci
Affiliation:
Psychosomatische Medizin u. Fachpsychotherapie, Christophsbad, Goppingen, Germany
E. Gebhardt
Affiliation:
Psicoterapia, Studio Panama, Rome, Italy
D. Polese
Affiliation:
Neuroscienze, Università di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy
A. Mazzetta
Affiliation:
Neuropsichiatria, Università di Roma Torvergata, Rome, Italy
M. Fagioli
Affiliation:
Psicologia dei Processi di Sviluppo e Socializzazione, Università di Roma Sapienza, Rome, Italy
A. Masini
Affiliation:
CSM, ASL RM D, Rome, Italy
F. Fagioli
Affiliation:
Tutela dell'Adolescenza, ASL RME, Rome, Italy
M. Consolazione
Affiliation:
Neuroscienze Cliniche, Università di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy
D. De Lisi
Affiliation:
Psichiatria, SUN Seconda Università di Napoli, Naples, Italy
M.G. Gatti
Affiliation:
Pediatria e Neonatologia, University di Siena, Rome, Italy
A. Raballo
Affiliation:
Salute Mentale e Dipendenze Patologiche, AUSL Reggio Emilia, Rome, Italy
P. Fiori Nastro
Affiliation:
Neurologia e Psichiatria, Università di Roma Sapienza, Rome, Italy

Abstract

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Introduction

In our opinion there is still confusion about the exact meaning of the term negation. As a consequence of this the importance of negation in the psychotherapeutic work is until now underestimated.

Objectives

For psychiatrists who work according to Fagioli's human birth theory the concept of negation is fundamental. Negation is a notion that refers to unconscious reality.

Aims

The task of the psychiatrist is to identify and to interpret the negation in the deformed dream images during the psychotherapeutic process.

Methods

In contrast to an intentional lie, which is communicated through verbal speech, negation corresponds to unconscious thoughts, which we can find in dreams. During sleep a transformation occurs, language is altered and expressed through images. Negation deforms the image. This deformation of the image happens in an unconscious process. This negation distorts the reality of the patient and his ability to interact with the other. Corresponding the relationship will be aggressive/destructive. The only way to identify this deformation is dream interpretation.

Results

Through this therapeutic process the patient will be able to intuit and realize instead of negate the positive qualities of the other and integrate these into his reality. Only human interaction that is free from negation enable the patient to overcome the ideo-affective splitting, which allows recovery of positive affects and the possibility of developing evolutive relationships.

Conclusions

Only a clarification of the term negation allows a psychotherapeutic process with the aim of developing evolutive relationships.

Type
Article: 1635
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 30 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 23rd European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2015 , pp. 1
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Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2015
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