Rosapia Lauro Grotto

Rosapia Lauro Grotto has a Degree in Physics, a Degree in Dynamic Psychology, and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Neurosciences, and she is actally Professor of Dynamic Psychology and Group Psychodynamics at the Department of Health Sciences of Florence University (Italy). She is member of the Italian Association of Psychology, of the International Sandor Ferenczi Society and of the Italian Society of Historical, Phylosophycal and Social Studies of Biology and Medecine. Her actual research interests are focused on two interrelated fields: the modellization of psychodynamic intrapsychic and groupal phenomena and the development of phenomenologic-hermeneutic research methods for action-research in the context of helth care institutions. In the context of her research activities, she also contributes to the development of the VirtHuLab (Virtual Human Dynamics Laboratory) at the Interdipartimental Center for the Study of Complex Dynamics at Florence University. In 2014 she founded, together with Prof. Fionn Murtagh (University of Derby) the Computational Psychoanalysis group (http://www.computational-psychoanalysis.eu).

Publications

Virtual Reality as Distraction Technique for Pain Management in Children and Adolescents
Virtual Reality as Distraction Technique for Pain Management in Children and Adolescents
Barbara Atzori, Hunter G. Hoffman, Laura Vagnoli, Andrea Messeri, Rosapia Lauro Grotto. © 2019. 12 pages.
For a growing number of medical procedures, patients remain awake during the procedure, they feel pain during the medical procedure, and they remember the pain after the...
Virtual Reality as Distraction Technique for Pain Management in Children and Adolescents
Virtual Reality as Distraction Technique for Pain Management in Children and Adolescents
Barbara Atzori, Hunter G. Hoffman, Laura Vagnoli, Andrea Messeri, Rosapia Lauro Grotto. © 2018. 11 pages.
For a growing number of medical procedures, patients remain awake during the procedure, they feel pain during the medical procedure, and they remember the pain after the...
Formal Approaches in Computational Psychoanalysis and the Embodiment Issue
Formal Approaches in Computational Psychoanalysis and the Embodiment Issue
Rosapia Lauro Grotto. © 2014. 15 pages.
In the last decades in the domain of cognitive sciences benefitted from the integration of contributions coming from different disciplines, such as neurosciences, cognitive...