Educational objectives The general objective of the course is to understand changes that occur during the different developmental stages with particular attention to the development of the identity of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people, i.e., all those people with sexual orientation and/or gender identities other than the cis-heterosexual norm (LGBTQ +).
Specific objectives are:
Knowledge and Understanding:
Understand the main developmental changes that occur over the life course, with particular attention to the identity development of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people and, more broadly, of people whose sexual orientation and/or gender identity do not conform to cis-heterosexual norms.
Become familiar with the main theories of parenting, family functioning, and family relationships, from classic approaches to the most recent contributions in the psychology of parenting.
Understand the family from a systemic-relational perspective, with attention to the communicative, emotional, and relational dynamics that shape its functioning.
Analyse coming out as a process that involves the entire family system and affects the psychological and relational well-being of LGBTQIA+ people.
Understand the affirmative approach to sexual orientations and gender identities that do not conform to cis-heterosexual norms, as a respectful, informed, and supportive clinical and psychological perspective on LGBTQIA+ identities and life experiences.
Understand the role of politics, religion, culture, and ethnic belonging in shaping parenting, family dynamics, and the well-being of LGBTQIA+ people.
Explore the topic of families with same-sex parents and the well-being of children growing up in same-sex parent families.
Applying Knowledge and Understanding:
Apply theories of parenting and family functioning to the analysis of the relationships between parenting, development, identity, and psychological well-being.
Assess family functioning and parenting practices using tools and categories from family and developmental psychology.
Analyse parents’ reactions to coming out and their role in the development of a positive identity among LGBTQIA+ people.
Interpret clinical vignettes concerning dysfunctional family dynamics and at-risk parenting situations.
Use research tools, such as questionnaires, interviews, and life-story collection, to empirically investigate the relationship between parenting, family functioning, and well-being in adolescence.
Take part in theoretical-practical activities and research projects in the field of family psychology, including critical analysis of bibliographic sources, administration of research tools, and data entry and organisation.
Making Judgements:
Develop independent critical judgement in assessing the relationships between parenting, family functioning, individual well-being, and identity development.
Recognise the family variables that may promote or hinder the well-being of LGBTQIA+ people, with particular reference to adolescence.
Critically assess complex family situations, dysfunctional dynamics, and at-risk parenting conditions.
Reflect critically on the most common mistakes made in interactions with LGBTQIA+ people and their families.
Empirically test the psychological theories studied through the use of research tools on parenting, family functioning, and adolescent well-being.
Communication Skills:
Clearly present concepts, theories, and analytical findings related to the psychology of parenting, family relationships, and the development of LGBTQIA+ people.
Present and discuss brief theoretical insights, cases, clinical vignettes, and research materials in class.
Communicate effectively and appropriately with parents and family members, taking into account the emotional climate, relational dynamics, and specific features of family contexts.
Use respectful, informed, and appropriate language when interacting with LGBTQIA+ people and analysing their family and developmental experiences.
Learning Skills:
Develop tools for independently continuing the study of developmental psychology, parenting, and family relationships.
Strengthen the ability to critically engage with the scientific literature on parenting, family functioning, adolescence, coming out, and the well-being of LGBTQIA+ people.
Acquire skills useful for continuous updating and autonomous participation in research pathways in the field of family psychology.
Develop a stronger ability to integrate theoretical knowledge, empirical tools, and critical reflection in the analysis of family relationships and developmental processes.
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Educational objectives The course enables students to achieve the following learning objectives:
Knowledge and Understanding:
Understand the main models of psychoanalysis, from classical Freudian theory to contemporary developments.
Become familiar with the concepts of psychosexual development, polymorphous perverse disposition, the bisexual mind, and Laplanche’s general theory of sexuality.
Analyse the contributions of Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott to the understanding of personal and gender identity as a relational process of co-construction between Self and Other.
Understand processes of subjectivation in contemporary psychoanalysis, including through the reinterpretations proposed by Butler, Lemma, and Dimen.
Become familiar with unconscious dynamics related to psychic conflicts, traumatic experiences, mourning, melancholia, affective bonds, and emotional dependencies.
Applying Knowledge and Understanding:
Apply psychoanalytic models to the analysis of psychic dynamics, unconscious thought, defence mechanisms, dreams, identity, and subjectivity.
Analyse historical and contemporary clinical cases, identifying the connections between individual history, suffering, symptoms, the body, and processes of subjectivation.
Interpret clinical narratives as tools for understanding the transformation of the subject and the evolution of psychoanalytic practice.
Analyse symbolisation, autobiographical narrative, the construction of psychic representation, relational dynamics, and clinical listening.
Understand how psychoanalysis also emerged through listening to oppressed and marginalised subjectivities, contributing to the critique of normative categories and rigid notions of normality.
Making Judgements:
Develop independent critical judgement of psychoanalytic models and their transformations in relation to cultural, social, feminist, and gender studies perspectives.
Critically compare psychodynamic theories and models, assessing their conceptual validity, interpretative potential, and limitations.
Recognise the continuum between normality and psychic suffering, moving beyond pathologising and normative interpretations of subjectivity.
Critically assess the relationship between mind and body, unconscious and conscious processes, dream experience and reality, subject and otherness.
Identify, through the analysis of clinical cases, the connections between suffering, symptoms, trauma, mourning, and identity construction.
Communication Skills:
Use the vocabulary of classical and contemporary psychoanalysis appropriately to describe psychic, relational, and identity-related processes.
Clearly present complex concepts related to psychosexuality, subjectivation, the unconscious, trauma, mourning, gender, and identity.
Analyse and discuss clinical narratives, recognising how subjective experience is structured through storytelling.
Develop critical listening skills in relation to individual stories, with attention to the dynamics between subject, otherness, desire, conflict, and suffering.
Understand clinical communication as a space for listening, recognition, elaboration, and transformation.
Learning Skills:
Develop tools for independently engaging with classical and contemporary psychoanalytic literature.
Strengthen the capacity for critical updating on the relationship between psychoanalysis, psychosexuality, identity, gender, and subjectivation.
Acquire skills for interpreting subjectivity as the outcome of relational, symbolic, emotional, and narrative processes.
Integrate theoretical models, clinical materials, and critical perspectives in order to understand subjective transformation from a relational and narrative perspective.
Independently explore the deconstruction of normative categories of mental health, identity, and normality.
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