https://doi.org/10.4081/rp.2023.782

The civil hearing of the juvenile court as an activator setting of intrapsychic and relational changes

Vol. 34 No. 3 (2023)
Submitted: February 2, 2023
Accepted: May 24, 2023
Published: December 19, 2023
Juvenile court setting, logic of the unconscious system, ego-superego dynamics, discourse
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Pasquale Scarnera
linosca@questacitta.it
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0719-6830
Clinical psychologist/Social Coop. Psychotherapist ‘Questa Città’, Gravina in Puglia (BA); former Honorary Judge at the Juvenile Court of Bari, Italy.

The Italian juvenile courts make use of the contribution of external experts, which apply their skills and specializations in the activity they carry out during the hearings, in which both social and health services are heard, as well as minors and parents whose problems are the subject of intervention. This contribution is also provided during the Council Chambers, through which decisions concerning the solution of the needs and difficulties identified during the preliminary activity are made, being directed at both the Services and the citizens. This activity, held during the court hearings, often generates projective dynamics of the Ego-Superego type, which can prove useful in activating processes of change in those summoned to the hearing, if managed with awareness and shrewdness. This useful activating setting could be lost, or cause damage, following the modification of the civil process foreseen in the next few months, therefore a theoretical discussion and explanatory clinical cases of these dynamics are proposed.

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Scarnera, P. (2023). The civil hearing of the juvenile court as an activator setting of intrapsychic and relational changes. Ricerca Psicoanalitica, 34(3). https://doi.org/10.4081/rp.2023.782
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