Aims

To look further into the concepts of a clinic psychology inspired by the psychoanalysis, by improving them with a particular criminological topic, which is likely to change each year.

Main themes

The topics to be treated will be, for example:
- the "acting out" and "passage à l'acte"(french speaking theory) in its psychopathic version;
- the feeling of " injustice subie" (offending process) and the dynamics of the recognition and solidarity, whether it is at the delinquent or the victim;
- the violence of the affects in the crime process of love tragedies or other destinies of aggressiveness; ...



In its psychological and psychoanalytical aspects, the course may also address types of behavior considered as deviant.

Content and teaching methods

Being a course of "questions in depth", the matter can change each year.
Whatever the topic selected (concerning one of the fields of criminality), it acts to analyze the specific contribution of a lighting of these phenomena by the clinic psychology according to the psychoanalytical model, like working out the concepts able to deal with an original intelligibility of the significance of those. Such an access is also to develop in its implications anthropological and interdisciplinary, specific to the clinical social sciences.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Pre-requirements : Criminal Psychology or Clinical Psychology
Support : Bibliography
Evaluation : oral exam

Programmes in which this activity is taught

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