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Rome, Italy, in person: October 25th, 2025 – Postgraduate School of Psychotherapy “Psychoanalysis of the Relation” of Rome
Organized by:
Postgraduate School of Psychotherapy
“Psychoanalysis of the Relation” of Rome
Sipre Center in Rome
MEETING/DISCUSSION WITH
DANIEL SHAW
THE THERAPIST’S LOVE AS AN ELEMENT
OF THE PSYCHOANALYTIC METHOD.
ROME – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2025
Online or at the Centro Congressi Cavour
(Via Cavour 50/a – ROME)
FOR INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:
SIPRe – Postgraduate School of Psychotherapy
Via Appia Nuova, 96 – 00183 – Tel. / Fax: 06-77203661
THE THEME OF THE MEETING
The theme of love has engaged psychoanalysis from the very beginning. Transference, in fact, from the case of Dora onwards, is at the center of psychoanalytic work, indeed, historically it defines it, distinguishing it from that of other forms of psychotherapy. But if the classical view considered the analysis of the feelings experienced by the patient essential for treatment, for those of the analyst it left on the contrary the benefit of neutrality and so-called “mastery”. Since the 1950s, however, psychoanalysis has begun a long and arduous journey that has led it to open up more and more to a constructivist and interactionist vision of analytic dialogue, and the question of the analyst’s subjectivity has entered the debate, inevitably engaging all psychoanalysis on this theme. Today we say that the analytic relationship is mutual, that on the unconscious level the quantity of data brought is the same for patient and analyst. The love of the analyst as well as that of the patient literally fills the room. But then what does the “quality” that makes it useful for patient care consist of? And before that, what is love from a biological point of view, since we are alive? And again, what is love between the living? The comparison with other disciplines, such as biology, sociology, as well as neuroscience and research on the psychological development of the child, has enriched the terrain with new elements, providing the coordinates for thought and supporting our theories with a scientific depth. This conference wants to start from this comparison, in an attempt to further enliven psychoanalysis which is an instrument of treatment but also a bearer of values. The current social climate strengthens competition, individualism, narcissism, depriving the human being of his own skills and founding values: the value of his fragility, that of “mutual support”, and finally of the very possibility of loving. Care and ethics are in fact completely intertwined, we cannot ignore it, except at the price of an invisible, hidden, yet present wound, which involves what Morin called “a haemorrhage of love”, a dissipation, a loss, which even today we would like to help counteract.
PROGRAM
Morning 8.30 – 13.00
08.30 Registration of participants
Chair Salvo Zito
09.00 – 09.30 Introduction to the works
09.30 – 10.15 Daniel Shaw
Analytic love: “Self-Compassion” is the growth of secure internal attachment.
10.15 – 11.00 Alioscia Boschiroli
Discussant
11.00 – 11.30 Pause
11.30 – 13.00 DEBATE WITH THE PUBLIC
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch
Afternoon 2.30 pm – 6.00 pm
Chair Olga Spagnuolo
14.30 – 16.00 Round table:
Daniel Shaw, Rossella Mascolo, Sergio Manghi
Love: a multi-voiced reflection on biology, psychoanalysis and the epistemology of complexity.
16.00 – 16.30 Pause
16.30 – 18.00 DEBATE WITH THE PUBLIC
18.00 CME questionnaire
SPEAKERS:
Daniel Shaw
LCSW, psychoanalyst, faculty and supervisor at the National Institute for the Psychotherapists in New York. He has written articles for Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Contemporary psychoanalyses and Psychoanalytic Dialogues and more recently the book “Traumatic narcissism: relational systems of subjugation” published by Routledge in the Relational Perspectives Book Series.
Alioscia Boschiroli
Psychologist, Psychotherapist. Adjunct Professor in “Clinical Relational and Attachment Psychology” – Department of Psychology, University of Turin. Lecturer and supervisor at the School of Psychotherapy with a psychoanalytic relational and attachment orientation – Mitchell Institute (Turin, Italy). Member of IARPP (International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy),
Rossella Mascolo
She graduated in Natural Sciences (1981), at the University of Sassari and later in Biological Sciences (1984) and finally also in Philosophy (2005), with a thesis entitled Beyond Homo technologicus: the evolution of knowledge in cyberspace. She obtained a PhD in History, Philosophy and Didactics of Science (2010) at the University of Cagliari. Professor of Bioethics at the University of Sassari. Founder of the Autopoietic School of the Mediterranean, president of the Sassari Complexity Study Center of the Italian Philosophical Society. She is the author of numerous articles, essays and reviews; in particular, in 2011 he published the book: The emergence of the Biology of cognition. The complexity of the life of Humberto Maturana Romecín. Aracne Editrice, Rome.
Sergio Manghi
Former Full Professor of Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes at the University of Parma. He has always understood sociology as a transdisciplinary field, unitary bio-socio-anthropological, and at the same time as a reflective dialogue with contemporary society, committing himself, among other things, outside the University, to training in care, help and educational practices. His research topics, therefore, have always been vast and have also concerned, among other things, interaction in the social-health field, the ongoing transformations of subjectivity, ecological imagery, processes of social victimization, and on a theoretical level, the ecology of the mind of G. Bateson, intertwined with other studies, especially those of E. Morin and R. Girard. Among his numerous publications we limit ourselves to mentioning: Puss with wings. Ecology of the mind and social practices (2000) at Asterios; Ecological knowledge. Attualità by Gregory Bateson (2004) published by Cortina and Il soggetto ecologico by Edgar Morin. Towards a Society-World (2009) Centro Studi Erikson
Olga Spagnuolo
Psychologist, psychotherapist and psychoanalyst of the Italian Society of Relationship Psychoanalysis (SIPRe). Supervisor and lecturer of Theory of Relationship Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Methodology at the Institute of Specialization in Psychotherapy of SIPRe in Rome and Parma. She carries out private clinical activity and is the author of several publications in journals and books, including: “For a dialectical co-construction of “sense”: schizophrenia, suffering and analytic relationship.” (in Fontana M., Corbelli L., eds., Psychoanalysis and schizophrenia. A painting in the making, Franco Angeli, Milan, 2015); “Subject and anguish: suffering as an expression of the dialectic between being and becoming”, (in Corbelli L, ed., If I don’t die I go crazy, Aras Edizioni, 2022)
Salvo Zito
Psychologist, psychotherapist and psychoanalyst of the Italian Society of Relationship Psychoanalysis (SIPRe). Supervisor and lecturer of Theory of Relationship Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Methodology at the Institute of Specialization in Psychotherapy of SIPRe in Rome and Parma. He carries out private clinical activity, and for about 30 years he has worked in the field of social services carrying out consultancy and service design activities as well as training and supervision of operators gathered in teams. He is the author of several publications in journals and books, including: “Borderline pathology in psychoanalysis. Models for intervention” (Fontana M., Zito S., Franco Angeli, 2014); “Discourses on the method” (Fedeli A., Simmini M., Zito S., Exorma Edizioni, Rome, 2013). He edited the entry “Relational Psychoanalysis” of the International Dictionary of Psychotherapy, (Routledge, London, 2019) published in Italy by Garzanti.
SCIENTIFIC AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Massimo Fontana, Olga Spagnuolo, Salvo Zito.
ACCREDITED CME – RESIDENTIAL and SYNCHRONOUS AND ASYNCHRONOUS FAD: 8 POINTS
COSTS
University and psychotherapy school students, GSPP students and SIPRe Graduates 50 € (VAT incl.)
Members and aggregates SIPRe 60 € (VAT incl.)
Outdoors 70 € (VAT incl.)
THE SEMINAR IS ORGANIZED BY:
GRADUATE SCHOOL
IN PSYCHOTHERAPY
“PSYCHOANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP”
Recognized by the MURST DM 29.01.2001
Rome office
Director: Dr. Adriana Cornacchia
CENTRO SIPRe DI ROME
Director: Dr. Giovanna Frezza
00183 – Via Appia Nuova, 96
Tel./Fax 06.77203661
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