Clinical psychology and psychotherapy
My clinical psychology and psychotherapy project: I provide psychological treatment for patients with mild or severe distress.
First in Italy
I am Dr Giuseppe Metallo, psychologist, psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, esotericist, alchemist and magician.
Psicologo Metallo is my clinical psychology project, the first in Italy based on the use of Tarot Reading, with an evolutionary approach focused on the present.
The Arcana give early access to unconscious dimensions that belong to the patient.
The style is "oracular": sessions are spaced further apart, so that the patient can work through the unconscious material that emerged from the reading.
Tarot is the only psychotherapeutic tool that allows a structural change of personality, enabling the patient, in due time of course, to reclaim their own "inner child" by passing through the stages of alchemical transformation: Nigredo, Albedo, Citrinitas and Rubedo.
Every other kind of psychotherapy is less transformative, because it is compensatory or palliative.
The stages of alchemical transformation
Orientation
My orientation is psychodynamic psychotherapy, with special attention to the unconscious, to transference and countertransference, to John Steiner's theory of "Psychic Retreats" and to Donald Meltzer's "Sexual States of Mind".
Particular attention is given to assertiveness.
Assertiveness
For the sake of conformism, today's society and families tend to crush individuals, making everyone the same and above all unable to assert their own opinion for fear of being judged or castrated. The aim of my approach is to help people stand up for themselves again, especially if they tend to be submissive or easily influenced by others.
Who I work with
People with problems at work, suffering from work-related stress, burnout, mobbing and relationship issues in the workplace.
People with problems in their friendships, who feel trapped in relationships that leave them dissatisfied.
People who experience emptiness or boredom in their romantic relationship, cannot truly open up to their partner, feel overwhelmed or cannot stand up for themselves.
Trauma
As regards trauma, I firmly believe that all sexual traumas are secondary to sexual traumas already experienced with one's parents, on both the maternal and the paternal side.
I want to bring attention back to maternal sexual trauma, which, because of the idealisation of the mother figure embodied by the Virgin Mary, has often been denied and made taboo even in current psychological and psychoanalytic studies. This is the most shocking truth to emerge from esoteric studies, according to which human frailty and illness stem precisely from here.
What it offers
Contact
I see clients in Florence, at Via IX Febbraio 21, and online. Call or write to me: I reply personally.