Bibliografia Ragionata

1. Concezione semiotica e intersoggettiva della mente

Berger, P.L., & Luckmann, T. (1966). The Social Construction of Reality. London: Penguin Books

Bickard, M. H. (2009). Interactivism: A manifesto. New Ideas in Psychology, 27(1), 85-95.

Bruner, J.S., & Goodman, C.C. (1947). Value and need as organizing factors in perception. Journalof Abnormal Social Psychology, 42, 33-44.

Cole, M. (1996). Cultural Psychology. A once and future discipline. Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Douglas, M. (1986). How Institutions Think. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.

Edwards, D., & Potter, J. (1992). Discursive Psychology. London: Sage.


Geertz, C. (1983). Local knowledge: Further essays in interpretive anthropology. New York: Basic Books

Harré, R., & Gillett, G. (1994). The Discursive Mind. London: Sage.


Heine, S. (2011). Cultural Psychology. San Francisco: W. W. Norton & Co.

Hermans, H. J. M. (2001). The Dialogical Self: Toward a Theory of Personal and Cultural Positioning. Culture & Psychology, 7(3), 243-281. doi: 10.1177/1354067X0173001.

Linell, P. (2009). Rethinking language, mind and world dialogically. Interactional and contextual theories of sense-making. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.


Markova, I. (2003). Dialogicality and Social Representations. The Dynamics of Mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Moscovici, S. (1961) La psychanalyse, son image, son public [Psychoanalysis, its image, its public]. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.

Peirce, C. S. (1932). Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce (C. Hartshorne & P. Weiss, eds) (vol. 2). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press [Original version: 1897].

Ratner, C. (2008). Cultural psychology and qualitative methodology: Scientific and political considerations. Culture & Psychology, 14(3), 259–288.

Rommetveit, R. (1992). Outlines of a dialogically based social-cognitive approach to human cognition and communication. In A. H. Wold (Ed.), The dialogical alternative. Towards a theory of language and mind (pp.19-44). Oslo: Scandinavian University Press.

Shweder, R. A. (1991). Thinking through cultures: expeditions in cultural psychology. Harvard: Harvard University Press.

Vygotsky, L.S. (1978). Mind in society. Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press.

2. Psicologia semiotico culturale

Ciavolino, E.,Redd R., Avdi, E., Falcone, F., Fini, V., Kadianaki I., Kullasepp, K. Mannarini T., Matsopoulos, A., Mossi, P., Rochira, A., Santarpia, A., Sammut, G., Valsiner, J., Veltri, G. A., and Salvatore., S. (2017). Views of Context. An instrument for the analysis of the cultural milieu. A first validation study. Electronic Journal of Applied Statistical Analysis, 10 (2), 599-628

Rosa, A., & Valsiner, J. (Eds) (2018). Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology, II Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Salvatore, S. (2012). Social Life of the Sign: Sensemaking in Society. In J. Valsiner (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology (pp. 241-254). Oxford: Oxford Press.

Salvatore S. (2013). The reciprocal inherency of self and context. Outline for a semiotic model of constitution of experience. Interacçioes, 24, 9, 20-50, available at http://www.eses.pt/interaccoes.

Salvatore S. (2016). Psychology in black and white. The project of a theory-driven science. Charlotte NC: InfoAge Publishing. 978-1-68123-117-4.

Salvatore, S. (2016). The cultural psychology of desire. In J. Valsiner et al (Eds). Psychology as the Science of Human Being. Annales of Theoretical Psychology (pp. 33-49). Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London: Springer

Salvatore, S. (2017). The formalization of cultural psychology. Reasons and functions. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 51(1), 1-13. DOI 10.1007/s12124-016-9366-2.

Salvatore S. (2018). Culture as dynamics of sense-making. A semiotic and embodied framework for socio-cultural psychology. The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology, 2nd Edition (pp 35-48). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Salvatore S, Fini V, Mannarini T, Veltri GA, Avdi E, Battaglia F, et al. (2018) Symbolic universes between present and future of Europe. First results of the map of European societies' cultural milieu. PLoS ONE 13(1): e0189885. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0189885

Salvatore, S., Mannarini, T., Avdi, E., Battaglia F., Cremaschi, M., Forges Davanzati, G., et al. (on line first). Globalization, demand of sense and enemization of the other. A psycho-cultural analysis of European societies’ socio-political crisis. Culture & Psychology.

Salvatore S., Tonti M., & Gennaro A. (2016) How to model sensemaking. A contribution for the development of a methodological framework for the analysis of meaning. In M. Han & C. Cunha (Eds) The Subjectified and Subjectifying Mind (pp. 245-268) Charlotte (NC, USA): Information Age Publishing.

Salvatore, S., & Valsiner, J. (2010). Between the General and the Unique: Overco- ming the nomothetic versus idiographic opposition. Theory and Psychology, 20(6), 817-833.

Salvatore, S., & Venuleo, C. (2013). Field dependency and contingency in the modelling of sensemaking. Papers on Social Representation [On Line Journal], 22(2), 21.1- 21.41.

Valsiner, J. (2007). Culture in Minds and Societies. Foundations of Cultural Psychology. New Delhi: Sage.


Valsiner, J. (2014). An Invitation to Cultural Psychology. London: Sage Publications.

Valsiner, J., & Rosa, A. (Eds.). (2007). The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

3. Il fondamento inconscio ed affettivo della mente

Bion, W. R. (1967). Notes on Memory and Desire. The Psychoanalytic Forum 2, 272-273 and 279-290.

Brakel, L. A, Shevrin, H., & Villa, K. K. (2002). The priority of primary process categorizing: experimental evidence supporting a psychoanalytic developmental hypothesis. Journal of American Psychoanalytic Association, 50(2), 483-505.

Eagle, M. N. (1987). The psychoanalytic and the cognitive unconscious. In R. Stern (Ed.), Theories of the unconscious and theories of the self (pp. 155-189). Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press Inc.

Green, A. (2005). Key Ideas for a Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Misrecognition and Recognition of the Unconscious (Andrew Weller, Trans.). London: Routledge (Original work published in 2002).

Kernberg, O. F. (1990). New perspectives in psychoanalytic affect theory. In R. Plutchik, & H. Kellerman (Eds.), Emotion: Theory, Research, and Experience (pp. 115–131). New York: Academic Press.

Matte Blanco, I. (1975). The unconsious as In nite Sets. An Essays in Bi-Logic, London: Gerald Duckworth & Company Ltd.

Matte-Blanco, I. (1988). Thinking, Feeling, and Being: Clinical Reflections on the Fundamental Antinomy of Human Beings and World. New Library of Psychoanalysis, 5, 1-336. London and New York: Tavistock/Routledge.

Neuman, Y. (2009). On love, hate and knowledge. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 90, 697-712.

Neuman, Y. (2010). Penultimate interpretation. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 91, 1043-1054.

Salvatore, S., & Venuleo, C. (2008). Understanding the Role of Emotion in Sensemaking. A semiotic psychoanalytic oriented. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 42(1), 32-46.

Rayner, E. (1995). Unconscious logic. An introduction to Matte Blanco’s bi-logic and its uses. Hove and New York: Brunner-Routledge Taylor and Francis Group.

Salvatore, S., & Venuleo, C. (2010). The unconscious as source of sense: A psychodynamic approach to meaning. In B. Wagoner (Ed.), Symbolic Transformation. The Mind in Movement Through Culture and Society (pp. 59-74). London: Routledge.

Salvatore, S., & Zittoun, T. (2011). Outlines of a psychoanalytically informed cultural psychology. In S. Salvatore, & T. Zittoun (Eds). Cultural Psychology and Psychoanalysis in Dialogue. Issues for Constructive Theoretical and Methodological Synergies (pp. 3-46). Charlotte, NC: Information Age.

Sanchez-Cardenas, M. (2011). Matte Blanco’s thought and epistemological pluralism in psychoanalysis. The International journal of psycho-analysis, 92(4), 811-831. doi:10.1111/j.1745-8315.2011.00381.x.

Stein, R. (1991). Psychoanalytic Theories of Affect. London: Karnac Books.

Tonti M., & Salvatore S. (2015). The Homogenization of Classification Functions Measurement (HOCFUN): A method for measuring the salience of emotional arousal in thinking. American Journal of Psychology, 128(4),469-483.

4. Psicoanalisi intersoggettiva e relazionale

Carli, R. (1987). L'analisi della domanda [The analysis of demand]. Rivista di Psicologia Clinica, 1(1), 38-53.

Greenberg, J. R., Mitchell, S. A. (1983). Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Hoffman, I. Z. (1998). Ritual and Spontaneity in the Psychoanalytic Process. New Jersey Hillsdale: The Analytic Press Inc.

Kirshner, L., A. (2010). Between Winnicott and Lacan: Reclaiming the Subject of Psychoanalysis. American Imago, 67, 331-351.

Mitchell, S. A. (1988). Relational Concepts in Psychoanalysis. An Integration. Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Mitchell, S. A., & Aron, L. (Eds, 1999). Relational Psychoanalysis. The Emergence of a Tradition. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press Inc.

Modell, A. H. (1984). Psychoanalysis in a New Context. New York: International Universities Press.

Odgen, T. H. (2004). The Analytic Third. Implications for Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 73(1), 167-194.

Salvatore, S., & Freda, M. F. (2011). Affect, Unconscious and Sensemaking. A Psychodynamic, Semiotic and Dialogic Model. New Ideas in Psychology, 29, 119- 135.

Stern, D. B. (2013a). Field Theory in Psychoanalysis, Part I: Harry Stack Sullivan and Madeleine and Willy Baranger, Psychoanalytic Dialogues. The International Journal of Relational Perspectives, 23(5), 487-501.

Stern, D. B. (2013b). Field Theory in Psychoanalysis, Part 2: Bionian Field Theory and Contemporary Interpersonal/Relational Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Dialogues. The International Journal of Relational Perspectives, 23(6), 630-645.

Stern, D. N. (1985). The Interpersonal World of the Infant. New York: Basic Books.

Stern, D. N. (2004). The present moment in psychotherapy and everyday life. New York: W. W. Norton & Storolow R., Brandchaft B., Atwood G. E. (1995). Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach. New York: The Analytic Press

Stolorow, R. D., Atwood, G. E., Brandchaft, B. (1994). The intersubjective perspective. New Jersey Hillsdale: Jason Aronson, Inc.

Sullivan, H. S. (1953). The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry. New York: W. W. Norton & Co.

Tronick, E., & Beeghly, M. (2011). Infants' meaning-making and the development of mental health problems. American Psychologist, 6(2), 107-119.

Weiss J., Sampson H., & Mount Zion Psychotherapy Research Group (1986). The Psychoanalytic Process. Theory, Clinical Observations, and Empirical Research. New York: The Guilford Press.

5. Teoria clinica e teoria della tecnica

Carli, R. (1987), Psicologia clinica, Torino: Utet.

Carli, R., Paniccia, R. M. (2003) Analisi della domanda, Bologna: Il Mulino.Grasso, M. (2001), Modelli e contesti dell’intervento psicologico, Roma: Edizioni Kappa.

Carli, R., Paniccia, R.M., Lancia, F. (1988). Il gruppo in psicologia clinica. Roma: La Nuova Italia Scientifica.

Hoffman I Z. (1998), Ritual and Spontaneity in the psychoanalytic Process, Hillsdale, New Jersey: The Analytic Press

Salvatore S. (2015). Sense and sensemaking. Implication of a semiotic and dynamic model of mind for psychoanalysis (pp.153-176). In P. Rosembaum (Ed.). Making our ideas clear. Pragmatism in psychoanalysis. Charlotte (NC, USA): Information Age Publishing.

Salvatore S. (2016). L’intervento psicologico. Teoria e metodo della funzione psicologica. Roma: Edizioni Carlo Amore – Firera Publishing Group.

Salvatore, S. Venuleo, C., Pace, V., Puglisi, M. Tandoi, M., Venezia, A., Grassi, R. Mangeli, G. (2017). From psychopathology to service. A new view of the clinical psychology intervention. In MF Freda, R De Luca Piccione (Eds). Healthcare and Culture. Subjectivity in Mediacl Contexts. Charlotte (NC, USA): Information Age Publishing.

Salvatore, S., & Gennaro, A. (2015) Outlines of a General Semiotic and Dynamic theory of the Psychotherapy Process. The Clinical Exchange as Communicational Field: Theoretical considerations and methodological implications (pp. 195-212). In O. Gelo, A. Pritz, B. Rieken (Eds). Psychotherapy Research. Berlin: Springer

Salvatore S. & Valsiner. J. (2014). Outline of a general psychological theory of the psychological intervention. Theory and Psychology, 24, 217-232 DOI: 10.1177/0959354314524295

Safran J. D., Muran J. C. (2000), Negotiating The Therapeutic Alliance: a Relational Treatment Guide, New York: Guilford

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Venuleo C., Salvatore S., Mossi PG. (2015) The role of cultural factors in pathological gambling. Journal of Gambling Studies, 31(4), 1353-76. doi: 10.1007/s10899-014-9476-z.

6. Processo ed esiti della psicoterapia di orientamento psicoanalitico

Abbass, A., Kisely, S., & Kroenke, K. (2006). Short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy for somatic disorders: Systematic review and metaanalysis of clinical trials. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 78, 265–274. doi:10.1159/000228247

Abbass A, Sheldon A, Gyra A, Kalpin A. (2008). Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy for DSM-IV personality disorders. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disorders, 196, 211–116.

6. Processo ed esiti della psicoterapia di orientamento psicoanalitico

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Huber, D, Henrich, G., Clarkin, J. & Klug, G. (2013). Psychoanalytic Versus Psychodynamic Therapy for Depression: A Three-Year Follow-Up Study. Psychiatry, 76, 132-149.

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