Pengarang: Franco De Masi

Franco De Masi is a training analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society and former President of the Centro Milanese di Psicoanalisi and Secretary of the Training Institute of Milan. He is a medical doctor and a psychiatrist who has worked for many years in psychiatric hospitals. For the last forty years, he has worked as a full-time psychoanalyst in Milan. He has published several papers in The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, the Rivista Italiana di Psicoanalisi, and other psychoanalytic journals. His main interests are the theoretical and technical psychoanalytical issues related to severely ill or psychotic patients. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including A Psychoanalytic Approach to Treating Psychosis: Genesis, Psychopathology and Case Study (Routledge, 2020).