Centre for Cognition & Decision Making invites you to the seminar «Stalking And Other Forms Of Harassment And Persecution According To A New Approach: The Dioxologia» by Giovanni Roberto Compagno, PhD student at the University of Huddersfield (UK)

Abstract:
Victims of stalking often suffer from severe psychological effects (anxiety, depression, trauma symptoms) in the form of intense reactions that are expected due to an abnormal and continuously intrusive behavior (Meloy, 1998). The life of those who go through this experience, or other forms of harassment or persecutions, changes (life disruptions): victims may change or quit their job, give up on friends and family, resort to psychological counseling or feel constantly worried about their own safety (Aramini, 2002). The Dioxologia (diòxis = persecution, lògos = speech) (Ege, 2010) is an innovative theoretical framework through which it is possible to search for a behavioral regularity in order to understand the persecutory conducts; it is responsible for the definition of all those phenomena that, even if individually analyzable, have a common epidemiological origin: the persecution. Being able to recognize and distinguish the different forms of harassment and persecution would allow a greater possibility to educate, prevent and fight such phenomena starting from the young age. Dealing with gender issues in training and social context or for the psychosocial intervention, would also help the victims, often abandoned by the authorities due to a slow bureaucracy, which is clogged by cases of so-called exploitation. 



Project curator: Daria Nikolyuk 
Date: 23.11.2017 
Time: 15.00 
Address: Armianskiy per., 4 https://goo.gl/hd2nwB 
Room: 118