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Beyond the Dynamic Unconscious

Author(s) : Franco De Masi

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Franco De Masi has devoted his career as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst to the study of the elusive condition of psychosis, and more broadly psychotic thinking, in the full knowledge that we as analysts do not yet have the tools and ideas we need to understand and treat individuals suffering from a psychotic illness. In this original book, De Masi conveys concisely the limitations of the concept of the dynamic unconscious when applied to minds in which the dynamic unconscious has ceased to operate, and guides us into new territory where psychosis has manufactured an alternative reality. The creation of a replacement reality and how to think and talk about it is of the greatest importance for anyone working with severe disturbance.
Paul Williams, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California; former Joint Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Psychoanalysis; author of Invasive Objects: Minds under Siege and The Fifth Principle Trilogy

Franco De Masi, Italy’s foremost researcher in psychotic mechanisms, has written an outstanding account of his work which encompasses many areas but especially illuminates the thinking of patients who are normally viewed as unsuitable for psychoanalysis. All those working in therapy and analysis will find his ideas interesting and important, but so too will the more general reader concerned with the working of the mind. This book can open a path for psychoanalysis towards a territory beyond the dynamic unconscious for those patients who are unaware of themselves and their own psychic processes and are therefore difficult to reach.
John Steiner, Training Analyst, British Psychoanalytical Society