1 DIALOGICAL SELF Cambridge – UK, 2008 General Psychology Departement - University of Padova “altreStrade” – Social Cooperative, Padova present THE “CHAIN” OF PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCY ACCORDING TO THE DIALOGICAL MODEL

University of Padoua Departement of General Psychology Claudia Della Torre, Gian Piero Turchi, Roberta Durante THE “CHAIN” OF PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCY ACCORDING TO THE DIALOGICAL MODEL - INTRODUCTION -

THE CONTEXT SIGNAL A “RISK” OR “EMERGENCY” SITUATION The signalling primes a BIOGRAFICAL CAREER (pervaded biography) Ex.“I’m sick, I will always be so bad” The signalling remain a BIOGRAFICAL EPISODE (biografy) Ex. “How can I go on?” THE “CHAIN” OF PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCY ACCORDING TO THE DIALOGICAL MODEL - INTRODUCTION -

SEGNALLING OF “EMERGENCY” SERVICES TAKE CHARGE OF THE SITUATION HEALTH SERVICES Treat the physiological implications WELFARE SERVICES Identify a cause (ex. a “traumatic event” or a “ psychopathology”) Priming and mantaining of a “ILLNESS” BIOGRAFICAL CAREER Costs for the welfare and health’s systems THE “CHAIN” OF PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCY ACCORDING TO THE DIALOGICAL MODEL - INTRODUCTION -

DIALOGICAL MODEL THEORETICAL ASSUMPTION The discursive processes generate discursive configuration of reality OPERATIONAL PRAXIS Rhetorical artifices AIM OF THE MODEL: to change the discursive configurations of reality THE “CHAIN” OF PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCY ACCORDING TO THE DIALOGICAL MODEL - INTRODUCTION - EMERGENCY, according to the dialogical model: I t isn’t an “ontological reality”, but a discursive configuration, that is an “on going” reality that is generated by virtue of all the “telling voices” acted into a specific context of dialogical interaction

OBJECT OF THE INTERVENTION: all discursive processes that are coherent with the maintenance of the “emergency” configuration and that drive the discursive processes toward a pathology/illness configuration AIM OF THE INTERVENTION: to change the discursive processes, promoting the biographical continuity instead of the crystallization of processes into an “illness” biographical career Decreasing costs for welfare and health’s services THE “CHAIN” OF PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCY ACCORDING TO THE DIALOGICAL MODEL - INTRODUCTION -

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