Meet the editors

Floriana Irtelli is a psychoanalyst/psychotherapist and member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP) who has been lecturing for several years at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy. She has worked at Fatebenefratelli Hospital in Milan performing research and clinical activities. She is among the authors of several books, including *A Fresh Look at Anxiety Disorders and* 

*Psychopathy - New Updates on an Old Phenomenon*, and has published articles for the *Journal of Affective Disorders, Research in Psychotherapy*, and the *Journal for Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing*. She has participated in numerous conferences, seminars, and congresses. She is the sole author of the books *Illuminarsi di Ben-essere, Familiar-mente*, and *Contemporary Perspectives on Relational Wellness.*

Dr. Barbara Marchesi is a private practitioner in Milan, Italy. She received her degree in Psychology from the Cattolica University of Milan, after which she completed a specialty course in Adolescent and Adult Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. After working for almost ten years as a psychological consultant at Fatebenefratelli Hospital of Milan, where she completed a master's degree in Psychodiagnostics, she worked for five years at Papa Giovanni

XXIII Hospital in Bergamo, where she completed the formation for Neuropsychology. Currently, she works as a psychological consultant in the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Department at ASST Melegnano e della Martesana.

Dr. Federico Durbano received a degree in Medicine with a specialization in Psychiatry. He has worked at various hospitals, including Milan "Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico," Treviglio, Melegnano, and Fatebenefratelli, where he achieved significant career milestones. He is currently the director of the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Department at ASST Melegnano e della Martesana. Dr. Durbano has had teaching assignments at

the University of Milan (Nursing School) and the University of Castellanza (Master in Criminology). He has attended more than seventy local and national congresses and courses as an invited speaker and has published more than 180 papers. He is also a technical advisor to the court in the field of forensic psychiatry.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

**Section 3**

Trauma

*by Philippe Veysset*

*by Gertraud Diem-Wille*

*by Valeria Corbella*

Binge-Eating Disorder *by Shelley Heusser*

The Real Self and the Ideal Self

**Preface III**

Contemporary Psychoanalytic Theories **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 19**

Psychoanalysis Overview **31**

**Chapter 3 33**

Psychoanalysis and Pioneering **51**

**Chapter 4 53**

**Chapter 5 67**

**Chapter 6 83**

Is the Death Instinct Silent or Clinically Relevant? From Freud's Concept of a Silent Death Instinct to Understanding Its Clinical Manifestations

From the Shadow to the Light: Navigating Life as a Mother with a History of Substance Use and Parenting a Child Healing from Early Childhood

From the Couch to the Screen: Psychoanalysis in Times of Virtuality

*by Linda M. Perez, Suzi E. Desmond and Cheryl J. Sundheim*

"How Can I Have my Cake and Eat it?" A Contemporary Dissociation-Based Self-State Model of Anorexia and

*by Floriana Irtelli, Federico Durbano and Barbara Marchesi*

Freud and Binswanger: An Asymptotic Relationship
