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At the end of this course, the students who will pass the exam will have acquired basic knowledges about the main classical and modern models of psychoanalysis, and will be able to compare them and to discuss their validity according to the more relevant results of empirical research on normal and pathological development and on the efficacy of psychotherapies. Students who will pass the exam will be able also to identify the clinical implications of the principal classical and contemporary psychoanalytic models e to read and critically understand psychodynamic literature. Knowledge and understanding At the end of this course, student will have acquired basic knowledges about the principal psychoanalytic models of healthy and pathological psychic functioning and on the development of personality. Applying knowledge and understanding At the end of the course, the students will be able to read and understand the essays of the main authors of psychoanalytic thinking and to elaborate basic hypotheses on the core conflicts and defense mechanisms utilized by a patient whose clinical case has been read. Making judgements In order to help the development of critical judgement in students, during the lessons the different psychoanalytic models will be contrasted and clinical vignettes will be presented to show how the different psychodynamic models enable a different understanding of those cases and have different clinical implications. Communication skills During the lessons, the active participation of the students to theoretical and clinical discussions will be favoured so that the students will be able to improve their ability to communicate their reflections about the different dynamic models using the correct terminology. Learning skills During the lessons, specific essays of the more important dynamic authors will be introduced to the students so that they could deepen and widen their basic knowledges and competencies in psychodynamic thinking.