Riccardo Lombardi is a psychoanalyst, psychiatrist and MD. He has a full-time private practice in Rome and teaches at the Roman Psychoanalytic Institute of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA). He is a Training and Supervising Analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society. Among his published works is the book Formless Infinity. Clinical Exploration of Matte Blanco and Bion, published by Routledge in 2015.

Foreword Introduction 1. Body-Mind Dissociation and Transference onto the Body 2. Visual Power, Emotions and Mental Growth : A clinical essay on some of Bion's earliest psychosomatic intuitions 3. Intersubjectivity and the Body 4. Primitive Mental States and the Body. A personal view of AB Ferrari's Concrete Original Object 5. The Body in the Analytic Session: Focusing on the Body-Mind Link 6. Body and Mind in Adolescence 7. Working with the Body-Mind Dissociation in Three Psychoanalytic Sessions 8. The Body, Feelings and the Unheard Music of the Senses 9. The Hat on top of the Volcano: Bion's O and Ferrari's Body-Mind Relationship 10. Bodily Claustrophobia and the Music: A Psychoanalytic Note on Beethoven's Fidelio 11. Conclusion: Art, Experience and Harmonization of the Body-Mind Relationship