ABSTRACT
This chapter explains distinctive dimension of experience-based training on the Master’s programme in Dynamic, Clinical, and Community Psychology at a university in southern Italy. True learning, in a training context, provides emotional challenges to cognitive aspects of learning. The possibility for sharing through the group experience allows emotions to be experienced, but also for thinking about less symbolised elements, which demand to be named and given meaning. What the student-psychologist feels in the dramatisation is partially linked to her/his inner world and to what the student-client deposits in him/herself. The teacher suggests a dramatisation of a psychologist–client relationship after providing theoretical input during a lesson about the maternal role and childhood psycho-sexual development. The focus of psychoanalysis on the appreciation of an emotional dimension has powerful meaning in the daily practice of teaching and training. The training for clinical psychologists and psychotherapists consists of three main aspects: theory, practice, and personal development.
