Dansk Rorschach Selskab afholder sin XII Internationale Workshop torsdag den 23. og fredag den 24. April 2026. Begge dage kl. 9.30-16.30. med PhD, Professor Piero Porcelli fra University d’Annunzio of Chieti, Italy.

Mange hørte Piero Porcellis glimrende keynote speak ved Verdenskongressen i København, og vi har bedt ham uddybe emnet på en 2-dages workshop i København.

Han vil starte workshoppen med at give et teoretisk oplæg om ’Embodied Mentalization and the Rorschach’. Derefter vil han gennemgå 3-5 konkrete protokoller i relation til vurdering af mentaliseringskapacitet. Protokollerne, der er på engelsk, vil blive tilsendt deltagerne i god tid inden kursusstart sammen med relevante forskningsartikler.

Workshoppen foregår på Hotel Phoenix, Bredgade 37, 1260 København K. Pris for medlemmer af Dansk Rorschach Selskab: 4900 kr., pris for ikke-medlemmer: 5300 kr. Inkluderet i kursusafgiften er morgenkaffe, frokost samt frugt/kaffe/kage i løbet af dagen. Vi vil arrangere en middag med oplægsholderen for alle interesserede torsdag aften. Denne middag er ikke inkluderet i kursusafgiften.

Bindende tilmelding sker ved at indbetale kursusafgiften til selskabets bankkonto i Danske Bank: 9570 – 11879489 med angivelse af navn, emailadresse og mærket ’Porcelli 2026’. Man kan stole på, at man er tilmeldt, hvis beløbet bliver fratrukket ens konto, vi sender ikke bekræftelse på indbetaling ud. Der er begrænset antal pladser, hvorfor vi bruger først til mølle-princippet.

Tilmeldingsfrist 18. marts 2026.

Piero har beskrevet indholdet således:

Day 1 

Theoretical presentation:

Embodied Mentalization and the Rorschach 

Mentalization (minding the mind) should be understood as a functional dimension (ranging from too low to too high) and as a developmental and psychological process (from immature/defective to mature/effective), not as an all-or-none category. The mentalizing process essentially relies on hardwired biological connections between the body and the brain, as well as wireless interpersonal connections between individuals’ minds. The mind has three basic features: embodiment (the processes that we experience as mental processes are representations of the body in the brain), embedding (dynamic interaction between the body and the interpersonal context), and emergence (the complex result of interactions between neurons that cannot be predicted or understood by analyzing individual neurons).

Mentalizing can be viewed as processing, understanding, and attributing of meaning to feelings, making inferences about one’s own and others’ mental states, understanding misunderstandings, having a mind in mind, and using introspection to understand how others perceive you. In Fonagy’s model, mentalization is conceived as the confluence of four poles (self/others, cognitive/affective, external/internal, and explicit/implicit) and the developmental evolution of the early stages of pre-mentalization modes (teleological, psychic equivalence, and pretend).

The Rorschach is a powerful instrument with a century-long history that has proven to serve as a comprehensive assessment method of personality functioning. However, while powerful, it remains a low-tech method of capturing the multifaceted aspects of mentalization. On the other hand, despite its limitations, it remains a unique tool for assessing implicit motives in clinical practice. Human Movement responses (M) have been retained in all coding systems and have captivated clinicians and researchers for over a century. Neurobiological and clinical studies, as well as meta-analytic evidence, show that M is not a one-dimensional code, but a complex, multidetermined class of neuropsychological mechanisms that embed constructs such as the mirror neuron system, embodied cognition, mentalization, and referential activity. The recent generative predictive model of perception offers a new perspective on M as an affordance balanced between the high precision of sensory signals (perceptual processing of blot features) and stored knowledge or internal mental images of the self and others (priors). Within this conceptual framework, a novel perspective is suggested for interpreting M based on the four gradients of embodied mentalization, M frequency, M complexity, and level of reality testing.

Day 2 – morning & afternoon

Discussion of Rorschach protocols of clinical cases.

Piero Porcelli

Clinical psychologist and psychotherapist. Full professor of Clinical Psychology at the University d’Annunzio of Chieti, Italy. Psychosomatic specialist at the International College of Psychosomatic Medicine and fellow of the Society of Personality Assessment. For 30 years he has worked in a Clinical Psychology Unit of a research-based hospital in gastroenterology in Italy. His main clinical and research interests are psychosomatic medicine and personality assessment. He has served as national delegate of the European Rorschach Association, representative-at-large of the Society for Personality Assessment, and editor of the ISR Bulletin. He is author of papers published in peer-reviewed journals and books, including an Italian manual of the Rorschach Comprehensive System. He received the 2017 Martin Mayman Award from the Society for Personality Assessment.

piero.porcelli@unich.it