The main topics of the Course will be:

• What is Psychopathology?
• Psychopathology and Assessment in Clinical and Research Settings
• How to write a Clinical File?
• Psychopathology and Diagnosis
• Psychopathology and Drug Prescription
• Psychopathology, Understanding and Medical Psychotherapy
• What are Emotions and what is their Relevance in the Assessment and the Clinics of Mood Disorders?
• Phenomenology of Depressions and Mania
• Phenomenology of Borderline Personality Disorder and Borderline Depression
• Vulnerability to Mood Disorders
• Vulnerability to Schizophrenias
• What are Self-Disorders and what is their Relevance in the Assessment and the Clinics of Schizophrenias?
• Phenomenology of Early Schizophrenia and of schizophrenic Delusions and Hallucination