Riccardo Lombardi, MD, is a Psychoanalyst and Psychiatrist. He maintains a full-time private practice in Rome, Italy, and teaches at the Roman Psychoanalytic Institute of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA). He is also a Training and Supervising Analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society.

Luigi Rinaldi is a Psychiatrist and Training Analyst, and Member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society and IPA. He has been Head Psychiatrist and has taught in the University schools of specialization in Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology in Naples, Italy.

Sarantis Thanopulos is a Psychiatrist and Supervising and Training Analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society and IPA, based in Naples, Italy.

Series editor's foreword, Gabriela Legorreta;Introduction to the psychoanalysis of psychoses: current developments in theory and practice, Riccardo Lombardi, Luigi Rinaldi and Sarantis Thanopulos; PART I: General perspectives on the psychoanalytic experience with psychosis; 1 Child psychosis: an impairment in the work of representation, Didier Houzel;2 Chestnut Lodge and the psychoanalytic approach to psychosis, John Kafka; 3 A personal path to analytic therapy for psychosis, Franco De Masi; 4 Psychosis and body-mind dissociation: a personal perspective on the psychoanalysis of acute crises and of schizophrenia, Riccardo Lombardi;PART II: Communication and empathy with the psychotic analysand; 5 Aspects of the clinical work with psychotic patients, Mark J. Blechner; 6 Psychoanalytic therapy of a chronic paranoid schizophrenic woman, Michael Robbins; 7 The psychoanalyst and psychosis: the bull in a China shop, Stefano Calamandrei; 8 Pain in search of psychical shelter, Sarantis Thanopulos; PART III: Particularities of thought; 9 The reversal of thinking: Bion's theory of psychosis, Giuseppe Civitarese; 10 Dream, psychosis, and separation anxieties, Luigi Rinaldi; 11 Note on psychotic activity in pathological organizations, Paul Williams; PART IV: Flexible integration between psychoanalysis and pharmacology; 12The current state of psychodynamic treatment of psychosis, Ira Steinman; 13. Psychoanalysis and prescription drugs in the treatment of psychotic disorders, Giuseppe Martini