Lacanian Discourse Analysis and Emotional Textual Analysis Compared: New Proposals on Articulating Psychoanalysis and Psychosocial Studies

Fiorella Bucci is a clinical psychologist and a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Her practice is based in Ghent and Brussels (Belgium). She specialises in integration problems of people and families with international mobility backgrounds. She is a lecturer at the SPS School of Specialisation in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Rome, Italy), an alumna of the Canon Foundation in Europe and a former associate researcher at Kyoto University. Her publications, in journals such as Young and International Journal of Social Welfare, include works on: the emotional textual analysis, a psychoanalytically informed method for analysing texts and discourses within the framework of psychological interventions with social groups and organisations; contemporary changes in the cultural meanings of work; the cultural representations of mental illness in European countries and Japan.

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, is a Lacanian psychoanalyst. She practices in Italy in infancy and child development services. Her publications focus on critical discourse analysis and Lacanian discourse analysis, and investigate the discursive construction of subjectivity in the mental health domain, in particular within organisations and institutions. She is a member of the Quality Research in Mental Health Conference (QRMH) International Committee.

Clinical psychologist, professor at Ghent University (Belgium) and psychoanalyst in private practice (New Lacanian School for Psychoanalysis and World Association of Psychoanalysis). He is the author of the books The Subject of Psychosis: A Lacanian perspective and Diagnosis and the DSM: A Critical Review, and of multiple papers on Lacanian and Freudian psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic research into psychopathology and clinical diagnosis.