Beyond the Dynamic Unconscious

Auteur

Franco De Masi, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, is a full member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society and a training analyst at the National Training Institute of the same society. Among his publications are Karl Abraham: At the Roots of Analytic Theory (2018), Vulnerability to Psychosis: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Nature and Therapy of the Psychotic State (2009), and Herbert Rosenfeld at Work: The Italian Seminars (2001), which he edited. Other publications include The Sadomasochistic Perversion: The Entity and the Theories (2003), Making Death Thinkable (2006), which was awarded the Gradiva prize for the best Italian book of psychoanalysis in 2003, and Working with Difficult Patients (2015). His latest books include Lessons in Psychoanalysis: Psychopathology and Clinical Psychoanalysis for Trainee Analysts (2023), and A Psychoanalytic Approach to Treating Psychosis: Genesis, Psychopathology and Case Study (2020).

Texte du rabat

Franco De Masi opens psychotherapeutic practice to include psychic suffering considered unreachable. 'Unanalysable' patients have an inactive dynamic unconscious, so clinicians must go beyond to engage with psychic processes outside conscious awareness. Packed with theory and clinical case studies, this book is a must-read for practitioners.