Cosmo Education English

In this episode of Cosmo Education, the treatment utility of clinical assessment is explored as an active component of the psychotherapeutic process rather than a mere preliminary step. Drawing on contemporary clinical research, the episode examines when and how clinical evaluation, including approaches based on predictive models, can meaningfully inform clinical decision making, strengthen the therapeutic alliance, and facilitate change in complex and stalled treatment trajectories.

This Cosmo Education episode explores Katia Giacometti’s contribution on the therapeutic relationship and the intersubjective space in family clinical work. The focus is on the implicit processes that emerge in the present moment of the therapeutic encounter, the mechanisms through which mutual recognition is supported or hindered, and the therapist’s role within family systems characterized by borderline or psychotic functioning. Through the clinical case of Donatella, the episode illustrates how the therapist’s mind can operate as a space of regulation, differentiation, and integration, allowing new organizing principles to emerge within the family field.

This Cosmo Education episode delves into Constance T. Fischer’s exploration of Rorschach scoring dilemmas as direct access points to underlying personality dynamics. Rather than treating uncertainty in coding as technical noise, Fischer shows how hesitations, shifts, and corrections reveal micro-patterns of perception, affect, motivation, and relational stance. Through vivid clinical examples, the episode illustrates how these moment-to-moment processes bridge assessment and therapeutic work, offering a nuanced, dynamic understanding of how individuals approach ambiguity, contact, and emotional intensity.

A deep exploration of "useful care" and the thread of the Self, weaving together insights from developmental psychology, neuroscience, and clinical practice to understand how early relationships shape our capacity to heal, connect, and grow.

In this episode of Cosmo Education we explore “Body to Body. From Suffering to the Healing Encounter. The Body in Therapy” by Roberto Losso and Ana Packciarz Losso.

Before words, the body speaks in therapy—through breath, tension, silence, and resonance within the clinical relationship. The essay examines the body as a site of memory and transformation, where symptom, contact, and symbolization intertwine within individual, family, and group therapy. A profound exploration of the body as the boundary of the self, an instrument of thought, and a channel toward the healing encounter.

In this episode of Cosmo Education we explore Family Myths and Social Myths by Roberto Losso and Ana Packciarz Losso. The myth as the symbolic matrix of family life, between generational heritage, contemporary cultural myths, and therapeutic transformation. A reflection on identificatory functions, mythic countertransference, and the restoration of a living psychic skin to the family bond.

In this episode of Cosmo Education, we explore The Intrapsychic, the Interpsychic and the Transpsychic in Couple Psychoanalysis by Roberto Losso and Ana Packciarz Losso. This work examines the couple as a dynamic field of psychic transmission, interweaving intrapsychic, interpsychic, and transpsychic levels. The authors describe the role of the negative pact, unconscious collusions, and transgenerational legacies, illustrating how couple psychoanalysis can transform alienating contents into symbolizable experiences. A rigorous and captivating reflection that bridges theory and clinical practice, culminating in the proposal of symmetrical heterosexual co-therapy as a transformative model for relational growth.

The second part deepens Roberto Losso’s reflection on the suffering of contemporary families and the crisis of social and symbolic bonds. Through the psychoanalysis of ties, Losso illustrates how therapy can restore containment, reflection, and generational continuity, helping families recover their creative and relational potential.

In the first part of this Cosmo Education episode on Roberto Losso’s What Resources Do Families Have in the Contemporary World, we explore the theoretical foundations of psychoanalysis of bonds: the concept of the psychic tie, identifications, unconscious alliances, and the therapeutic field as a space of relational and psychic transformation.

In this episode of Cosmo Education, we explore Ancilla Dal Medico’s The Family Therapist and the Family Between Two Geological Eras: The Real and the Symbolic.

A profound reflection on the relationship between the real and symbolic structures of the family, on social transformation, and on the therapist’s task of building safety within uncertainty.

A clinical and anthropological analysis of the evolving family, balancing belonging and autonomy in the postmodern landscape.