Floriana Irtelli Bücher

Focusing on trauma and resilience, this book explores their historical context alongside recent scientific findings. It emphasizes that resilience skills can be developed at any age, highlighting the potential for healing and personal growth. Key aspects such as learning, relationship-building, self-motivation, and goal-setting are interconnected with resilience. The author advocates for psychotherapy as a means to safely reprocess traumatic memories, fostering a supportive environment for personal evolution and determination in achieving aspirations.

This book proposes new perspectives on relational wellness and the contemporary family—combining a psychoanalytic overview with scientific research about the burgeoning popularity of divorce, the increase in “stepfamilies,” and the use of social networks as well as other technologies. In this day and age, psychoanalysis has become increasingly interested in hyper-modern scenarios; for example, social networks and apps provide matching algorithms, which allow users to connect with people of similar interests. These networks have become one of the places where dissatisfied partners seek "more satisfactory situations.” In the United Kingdom, cohabitation lasts for up to two years, on average, and 40% of marriages end in divorce. In the United States, the percentage rises: it has now reached 50%. Today the value of temporariness, in which everything is fragmented, is exalted. On the other hand, is it wrong to deny the natural ebb and flow of human feeling?

This volume combines a wide historical overview on body image and eating disorders with contemporary anthropological and psychological theories. It is for those who are interested in the worrying relationship between the spread of new modern diseases and the influence of mass media, including social networking sites.