Richard Kelly’s Donnie Darko  remains one of cinema’s most haunting and multifaceted explorations of the boundary between psychosis, existential crisis, and metaphysical possibility. The film invites not only speculative fan-interpretation, but grounded psychological reflection: its protagonist (Donnie Darko) inhabits a world in which time, causality, self, and the world itself fracture — a fitting metaphor for major psychopathology, yet also a poetic allegory of meaning-maki

Written in collaboration with @istanza.tralenubi  Introduction – Why a new MMPI The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) has been a key tool in clinical psychology for decades. From its first edition in 1943 until the more recent MMPI-3 , published in 2020, the test has undergone a constantly evolving process aimed at improving the accuracy and timeliness of personality assessment (Ben-Porath & Tellegen, 2020). The new version was born to respond to the social,

Written in collaboration with @psicoavventure Referenced Article : Paranjothy, S. M., & Wade, T. D. (2024). A meta-analysis of disordered eating and its association with self-criticism and self-compassion. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 57(3), 473–536. Introduction In recent years, research on eating disorders has progressively been oriented towards a more complex and integrated vision, which considers not only eating behaviors and body image, but also the cogniti