Meet the editor

Paolo Azzone, MD, is a psychiatrist and a psychoanalyst. He is head of the Forensic Psychiatric Outpatient Program at ASST-Rhodense Hospital, Milan, Italy. Dr. Azzone substantially contributed to the establishment of a psychotherapy research tradition in Italy, with empirical studies on the psychotherapy process and on dreams. His current interests include the psychoanalytic treatment of depression and the intersections between

psychoanalysis and philosophy, literature, history, and religious experience. He is co-editor of *La mente dell'anima* (*The Mind of the Soul*), and author of *Depression as a Psychoanalytic Problem*, *Le Kharjas: Frammenti di Letteraura Erotica in Lingua Mozarabica* (*The Kharjas: Fragments of Love literature in Mozarabic Language*), and *Freud and the da Vinci Code*.
