European School of
Functional Psychotherapy (SIF)
Founder and Director: Luciano Rispoli
Vico Santa Maria Apparente 22
I-80132 Napoli
Italy
Tel: +39-081-2404114
Fax: +39.081.2404125
Naples: www.psicologiafunzionale.it
Montpellier: www.psychologiefunctionelle.com
Mexico: www.psicologiafuncional.com
School history
The Italian Society of Functional Psychotherapy (SIF) started in Naples in 1968 as the Centro Studi Reich where, for the first time in Italy, scholars such as Raknes, Boadella, Lowen, Eva Reich, Sharaf, Blumenthal and others were invited to speak. In 1973 the experimental nursery was opened, in 1975 SIF was established and in 1983 the European School of Functional Psychotherapy was established.
SIF has participated in Congresses and International Organisations of Psychotherapy (body-psychotherapy in particular) since the start, more specifically organising:
- National Congresses of Body Psychotherapy (Naples 1990, Catania 1992)
- International Symposium (Naples 1987, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2002)
- The 6th International Congress on Body Psychotherapy in Ischia (Naples) 2002.
The headquarters of the school are in Naples. It also has premises in Catania, Florence, Padova, Rome, Brescia and Palermo.
There are international premises (EIPF) in Paris and Montpellier (France) and Mexico City (Mexico).
Paris: Régine BERRIER-JACQUEMART Tel +33.06 80 23 25 04. E-mail: regine.jacquemart@wanadoo.fr
Montpellier: Sandra Ramirez Tobon, Tel +33.04.67410542 E-mail: sandrass@libertysurf.fr
Mexico City: Tel +52. 56 95 50 01 E-mail: EIPFmx@yahoo.com
Basic theory and concepts
Founded by Luciano Rispoli, Functional Psychology (or Neo-functionalism) deals with the profound functioning of the human organism. The concept of Functions enables one to look at how they operate without losing the whole picture. The Functions are an entire system that expresses itself in different ways at different times with unity and circularity in such a way that all the Functions contribute equally to the organisation of the Self. Fundamental experiences are those that are fundamental to development and contribute to one’s health, potential and well-being throughout a lifetime.
Functional Psychotherapy acts as a first step in overcoming the divisions between the various therapeutic approaches, towards an integrated therapy, using a therapeutic methodology which can be effective on all levels of the Self in order to remobilise and reintegrate the altered functions and heal the early Fundamental Experiences.
Training description
The training lasts four years. It includes 500 hours per year as well as individual therapy, didactic group, teaching of theory, workshops and seminars, intensive work experience placements, internal training, training in public services.
The programme includes the following topics: functional psychology, psychopathology as an alteration of the profound functioning of the self, functional diagnosis, a therapeutic project, therapeutic process and phases, mobilisation and reintegration of the functions, reconstruction of the early fundamental experiences of the self, integrated theory and technique of movement, touch and contact in functional psychotherapy, respiration in the psycho-body integration
guided imagination in the mind-body relationship, functional methodology during pregnancy and perinatality, infancy, adolescence.
Functional Psychology
The foundations
- The relationship between body and mind (Wilhelm Reich, Body-psychotherapy)
- Early Functionalism (James, Angell, Carr)
- Psychology of the self (Kohut, Stern)
Trainers
- Director and Founder: Luciano Rispoli is a psychologist, psychotherapist, researcher and the founder of Functional Psychology. He trains people in Italy, Europe and America. He is a Professor in the Psychology of Health at the University of Naples. He is President and Founder of the Società Italiana (Italian Society of Functional Psychology) (SIF) and the International School of Functional Psychotherapy (EIPF). He is also an active member of the most important Italian and international psychotherapy organisations. Luciano is an Honorary member of the EAPB and Honorary President of the AIPC.
- Trainers are: Paola Bovo, Barbara Andriello, Alessandro Bianchi, Paola Fecarotta, Giuseppa Caleca, Carla Cannizzaro, Custodia Caponetto, Albina Caudillo, Matteo Cipolla, Rosanna D'ancona, Antonio De Lucia, Luigi Emmanuele, Martina Fara, Emilia Genta, Antonio Grasso. Riccardo Grezio, A. Maria Laura Ingoglia, Caterina Iudica, Giada La Sala, Eleonora Magrassi, Ignazia Massaro, Maria Luisa Passarini, Enrica Pedrelli, Antonella Prudente, Roberto Rinaldi, Giuseppe Rizzi, Giacinto Rondelli, Roberta Rosin, Ivana Schiattarella, Serena Sciuto, M.Antonia Scuderi, Rosa Scuto, Laura Smirni, Teresa Sorrentino, Elio Vezza, M. Grazia Villari.
State of recognition
The European School of Functional Psychotherapy was accredited as a Body-Psychotherapy Training Institute by EABP FORUM in September 1999. It was also recognised by the Ministry of Universities and Scientific Research in 2000, and by the CSITP (Comité Scientifique Internationale de Thérapie PsychoCorporelle) in 1987. The school is a founding member of the AIPC (Associazione Italiana di Psicoterapia Corporea ) and a member of the CNSP (Consulta Nazionale Scuole di Psicoterapia). It is due to celebrate its 21st course in 2005.
EABP Members
Barbara Andrello, Paolo Bovo, Alison Duguid, Luciano Rispoli
Literature - publication - research
RESEARCH: Therapeutic research and phases; points of regularity, effects, verification of the results.
BIBLIOGRPHY: 16 books and more than 160 articles published in various countries, among which:
Rispoli, Psicologia Funzionale del Sé, Astrolabio, Roma 1993.
Meyer, Maurer, Rispoli, Zaruchas, Etudes cliniques psychothérapiques et somatothérapiques - Ed. SIMEP, Paris1993.
Rispoli, The relevance of the Thought of Wilhelm Reich: New Perspectives and New Potential, in Energy and Character, Vol. 29, n. 1 Giugno 1998.
Rispoli, Functional Psychology and the Basic Experiences of the Self, in Heller (Ed), The Flesh of the Soul: the body we work with – Peter Lang, Bern 2001.
Rispoli, Il sorriso del corpo e i segreti dell’anima, Liguori, Napoli 2003.
Rispoli, Esperienze di Base e Sviluppo del Sé. L’Evolutiva nella Psicoterapia Funzionale, Franco Angeli, Milano 2004.
Luciano Rispoli