Development and validation of the Dynamic Career Scale (DCS): a psychodynamic conceptualization of career adjustment

The Impact of Past Trauma on Psychological Distress: The Roles of Defense Mechanisms and Alexithymia

“…Manic reparation is also thought to be adaptive in facing depressive feelings. The present traumatized students might have relied on it to restore a damaged self by alleviating guilt feelings, enhancing self-efficacy, and preserving hope after trauma (e.g., Caputo et al, 2019). Thus, depending on different contexts in which trauma occurred, students might have benefited from endorsing different immature defenses.…”

A systematic review of psychodynamic theories in community psychology: Discovering the unconscious in community work

“…Concerning Europe, this finding is quite surprising considering the historical tradition of psychoanalysis in Austria and its later British and French developments, which have constituted meaningful reference theoretical frameworks worldwide. It should also be acknowledged the lack of qualitative or quantitative research studies among the retrieved publications, which may be more widely related to well‐known problems of operationalization and measurement in psychodynamic tradition (Caputo, Fregonese, & Langher, 2020a, 2020b; Nannini, Caputo, Marchini, Martino, & Langher, 2019). Instead, these publications generally deal with case presentations allowing to integrate the theoretical discussion with examples drawn from intervention programs or experiences.…”

¿Por qué los licenciados en psicología italianos sueñan con convertirse en psicoterapeutas? Un estudio sobre la toma de decisiones para emprender la formación psicoterapéutica

“…Taking into account the low flexibility and exploration of decision-making as discussed above, the demand for psychotherapy training appears scarcely defined and anchored to the analysis of differences among schools/institutions. This indefinite and blurred demand for postgraduate training may thus be interpreted as a form of manic reparation to face anxiety when entering into the labor market, rather than as the expression of a genuine interest in developing specialized competencies (Caputo, Fregonese, & Langher, 2020). Indeed, in the light of the uncertainty issues that young professionals are confronted with, especially in the early stages of their career (Langher, Nannini, & Caputo, 2018), becoming psychotherapists may represent an attempt to reach high status and membership in the privileged psychotherapy community, as to remedy the perceived defects in one's professional identity (Carlsson et al, 2011;.…”

“…In this regard, future studies could inspect the role of different symbolic and affective motives, such as achievement, affiliation, power and autonomy (e.g., Fregonese, Caputo, & Langher, 2018a), in undertaking psychotherapy training and taking up psychotherapy as a career. As well, the use of constructs of career adaptability and reparation could be fruitful to understand to what extent such choices are actually oriented to develop personal resources and knowledge or involve defensive patterns to remedy a defective professional identity as psychologists (Caputo et al, 2020;Langher, Caputo, Nannini, & Sturiale, 2016).…”