About the Course
One of four languages Dr. Piccolo works in.
Taught in French in the Department of Psychology at the University of Fribourg, the course examined the psychopathology of personality disorders through the lens of Beck’s cognitive theory — how innate predispositions and environmental influence shape the cognitive, affective, and behavioral patterns that distinguish the disorders, with personality understood across phylogeny and ontogeny as strategies that were once adaptive.
Course materials moved from theory to the clinic: disorders including borderline and narcissistic personality disorder, assessment tools such as the Personality Beliefs Questionnaire and the Young Schema Questionnaire, and treatment approaches from cognitive therapy to schema-focused therapy, including case studies of treating psychopathy.
Assessment
Group work and a final exam.
Group work and written examination
Students worked through clinical material in groups, and the course concluded with a written examination (December 2018).
Where & When
During the Fribourg lectureship.
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University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Taught in French
Autumn 2018.
What Students Say
From end-of-term evaluations.
“The professor blends theory, practice, and lived experience, which makes it genuinely interesting and helps us learn better.”
Psychopathologie des troubles de la personnalité · Fribourg