Franco De Masi: 7 books

È giudizio diffuso tra i terapeuti che le patologie gravi mettano in scacco il trattamento analitico, concepito per pazienti mediamente nevrotici. Sulla base di una lunga esperienza clinica e attraverso la riflessione sulle cause della mancata strutturazione della psiche in alcuni tipi di pazienti,...

This book examines the terminology used in the analysis of sadomasochism, surveys extensively, and in detail, the theories of other psychoanalysts, and explores the relationship between sadomasochism and depression; its relationship to psychosis, borderline states, and many other conditions.

This book postulates that the trigger of the psychotic condition is located in the basic processes which structure the first emotional relations. It presents some of the reasons why patients succumb to the attraction of a course doomed to result in the permanent derangement of their minds.

Why does someone resolve to take his own life in order to murder other people? What is the state of mind which allows him to commit such a monstrous act? This book explores the mental state that compels certain individuals to perform murderous, suicidal acts and emphasizes that, whereas a suicidal...

This book describes the life of Karl Abraham, his work in Zurich and Berlin, and his scientific relationship with Freud. Abraham wrote important papers which form the base of clinical psychoanalysis and analytic technique: transference, countertransference, narcissism, envy and childhood trauma. In...

In this book the author examines the series of connections that give rise to the intimate relationship between environment and individual in the construction of emotional suffering, emphasising both the undisputed pathogenic action of environmental stimuli and the active participation of whoever is...

«Se lasciamo che il bambino acquisisca tutte le cognizioni sessuali che desidera avere man mano che cresce in lui il bisogno di sapere, avremo tolto alla sessualità sia il suo alone di mistero sia gran parte della sua pericolosità. Ciò farà sì che desideri, pensieri e sentimenti non dovranno più...