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It is written in the annals of history: Sexology is born in the psychiatric house. In the modern era, the first great scholars dealing with the function – and dysfunction – of human sexual behaviour were just the doctors of the mind. The aim of this new section (which could be called “Sextion”) of the Journal of Psychopathology is to newly recognize the psychiatric paternity after almost a century of denial of this cultural and clinical responsibility. The large majority of sexological arguments of specific clinical interest for the psychiatrists will be here discussed. The reader will find articles on the possible sex-toxicity of (almost) all classes of drugs used in Psychiatry or for illegal abuse, the comorbidity of sexual and psychiatric and personality disorders, the sexology of the eating behavior disorder, the role of the psychiatrist in the treatment of gender dysphoria, sexual abusers and paraphilic patients demonstrating that the space for a new collaboration between the doctors of the mind and those of the sex is vast and is revealing scientific products able to satisfy the most rosy and flattering expectations.

 

Emmanuele A. Jannini

Full Professor of Endocrinology and Medical Sexology (University of Rome Tor Vergata), he was a guest researcher and fellow at the Clinical Endocrinology Branch, NIDDK, NIH, USA, lecturer at St Catherine’s College, Oxford, UK, on courses of the European Academy of Sexual Medicine, and visiting professor in several universities abroad. He has been also nominated Honorary Professor of Sexual Medicine of the Hanoi Medical University in Vietnam. He studies human sexuality with endocrine and behavioral perspectives, with particular interest in erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation, and female sexual function and dysfunction.

 

Giorgio Di Lorenzo

Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Department of Systems Medicine of the University of Rome Tor Vergata. His main clinical and research fields are psychosis, stress- and trauma-related disorders, psychopharmacology and electromagnetic brain stimulation of treatment-resistant mental illnesses, and cognitive rehabilitation of psychiatric disorders. He has also expertise in psychophysiology and cognitive neuroscience. Current scientific interests in the field of psychopathology are addressed to the characterizations of clinical dimensions in early psychotic disorders and stress- and trauma-related disorders, with a particular interest, respectively, in the identification of sexual dysfunctions and specifiers of complex traumatic phenotypes.

Eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder and other unspecified or otherwise specified eating disorders, are one of the most common health problems in adolescents and young adults of Western countries, representing one of the most frequent causes of disability for young people. The WHO identified eating disorders as a priority for the mental health of adolescents and young adults. The section on “Psychopathology of Eating Disorders” aims to disseminate updated knowledge relevant to etiopathogenesis, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of eating disorders with a special focus on their psychopathological aspects in order to stimulate high standards in research, training and clinical practice in the field of so severe and disabling psychiatric disorders.

 

Palmiero Monteleone

Full Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Salerno. He coordinates the clinical and research activities of the Eating Disorders Center of the Campania Region at the University of Naples. He has been Chair and Co-chair of the Eating Disorders Section of the World Psychiatric Association; he is Chair of the Eating Disorders Section of the European Psychiatric Association. He has been member of the ICD-11 Expert Consultation Group on the Classification of Feeding and Eating Disorders, and member of Task Force on Eating Disorders of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry. He has been Secretary and he is President of the Italian Society of Eating Psychopathology. He is member of the editorial boards of Psychoneuroendocrinology, International Journal of Eating Disorders, Neuropsychobiology, European Eating Disorders Review, Nutrients. In 2014 he has been awarded by Expertscape as the best Italian Researcher and Clinician in the field of Eating Disorders.

The Psychopathology and Psychotherapy section aims to promote the dissemination of theoretical and research studies for the understanding of the phenomena underlying mental illness. Psychopathology refers to everything that concerns the exploration of problems related to mental health, from understanding to classification and treatment. Psychopathology extends from research to treatment and includes studies related to all stages, in order to understand why a mental disorder develops, to find effective treatments. This includes research in experimental psychopathology, which involves laboratory research aimed at studying and explaining the etiology and maintenance of psychopathological processes and the psychological mechanisms underlying pathological behavior. This field pertains to both psychiatry and psychotherapy, which is the other topic of this section. The submission of papers concerning process and outcome research in psychotherapy and related to psychotherapeutic treatments for different psychopathological disorders is encouraged.

 

 

Antonino Carcione

Psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Vice-President of Society for Psychotherapy Research-Italy Area Group (SPR-IAG), Past-President of the Italian Society of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy (SITCC). Founder and scientific director of the Third Centre for Cognitive Psychotherapy and of the Italian School of Clinical Cognitivism (SICC) in Rome. Adjunct Professor at University of L’Aquila and teacher at the School of Specialization in Cognitive Psychotherapy SPC and SICC, and in several schools of cognitive psychotherapy. He is author and co-author of books and several papers about personality disorders, psychosis and metacognition in particular.

Clinical phenomenology is about exploring anomalous forms of subjectivity and their conditions of possibility. It builds on the question “what it is like?” or “how does it feel?” to experience, from a first-person perspective, a given psychopathological symptom like, for instance, being deluded, or hallucinated, or addicted to a given substance or behavior. It aims to reconstruct the overall structure of the world a person affected by psychopathological symptoms lives by.

The purpose of clinical phenomenology is to improve understanding of abnormal mental conditions in order to reduce marginalization, stigma and epistemic injustice, to strengthen dialogue between vulnerable people and the social context in which they live, and to enhance effective therapeutic treatments, including biological and psychological ones.

This Section welcomes theoretical and empirical research, including quantitative and qualitative studies, single case reports, first-person accounts, collaborative writing and co-production of knowledge involving patients and clinicians, and all those papers that may contribute to develop care through an in-depth understanding of psychopathological phenomena.

 

Giovanni Stanghellini

MD and Dr. Phil. honoris causa, psychiatrist, is professor of Dynamic Psychology and Psychopathology at “G. d’Annunzio” University (Chieti, Italy) and Profesor Adjuncto “D. Portales” University (Santiago, Chile). He chairs the Association of European Psychiatrists (EPA) Section on Philosophy and Psychiatry and the Scuola di Psicoterapia Fenomenologico-Dinamica (Florence, Italy). Among his books, all published by Oxford University Press: Nature and Narrative (co-edited with KWM Fulford, K. Morris and JZ Sadler, OUP 2003), Disembodied Spirits and Deanimated Bodies. The Psychopathology of Common Sense (OUP 2004), Emotions and Personhood (with R. Rosfort, OUP 2013), One Hundred Years of Karl Jaspers’ General Psychopathology (co-edited with T. Fuchs, OUP 2013), Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry (co-edited with KWM Fulford et al., OUP 2013) and Oxford Handbook of Phenomenological Psychopathology (co-edited with MR Broome et al., OUP 2019).

Guest Editor: A. Rossi e M. Pompili

Date of publication: September 2019

Table of Contents

Editorial
A. Rossi

A plea for the understanding of the suicidal mind
M. Pompili

Personality, mental functioning, and symptoms: assessing suicidal risk with the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, 2nd ed. (PDM-2)
V. Lingiardi, G. Di Cicilia, T. Boldrini

Suicide in obsessive-compulsive related disorders: prevalence rates and psychopathological risk factors
U. Albert, L. Pellegrini, G. Maina, A.-R. Atti, D. De Ronchi, Z. Rhimer

Risk factors for suicide in bipolar disorder
G. Maina, F. Quarato, S. Bramante

Epilepsy and suicide: a narrative review
R. Ciuffini, A. Marrelli, E. Perilli, P. Stratta

Dissociation in stress-related disorders and self-harm: a review of the literature and a systematic review of mediation models
R. Rossi, L. Longo, D. Fiore, A. Carcione, C. Niolu, A. Siracusano, G. Di Lorenzo

A complex phenotype of suicidal behavior: a case of post brain injury dissociative disorder
L. Longo, R. Rossi, C. Niolu, A. Siracusano, G. Di Lorenzo

 

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