Michele Minolli: Constructivist Psychoanalyst?

Throughout his professional life Michele Minolli fully embraced the scope of his psychoanalytic background while combining it with current developments in contemporary human and medical sciences. The research project described in his 1990 article, developed throughout his writing, welcomed the vision of man as an autonomous system and placed the Ego-subject and the relationship at the centre of the therapeutic method. Among the cognitivist authors, Vittorio Guidano followed a similar path, embracing the constructivist vision: the author describes how the encounter between the two methods was generative and a stimulus for the further development of a subjectively respectful practice of psychotherapeutic intervention. Intellectually, my encounter with Michele Minolli represented the opportunity to discuss ideas and opinions with a therapist who, in his clinical and research activity, had arrived at similar or even super-imposable theoretical and methodological theories to mine, despite my cognitivist background. Interaction with Michele often led to sessions where we debated which of us was more cognitivist than he thought or more psychoanalytic.