Psychodynamic Psychiatry

Psycho-dynamic psychiatry combines psychoanalytic principles with DSM-5 operational thinking. Major psychiatric disorders and personality dis-harmonies are presented psycho-dynamically with an emphasis on intrapsychic functioning on conflictuality Freudian and neo-Freudian principles. The therapeutic framework as a landmark in the mind of the specialist is the reference to which psychiatric thinking appeals. The concepts of transference and counter-transference are essential the relationship being healing through the power of containment of the specialist's mind by referring to significant imago and to the stress-diary relationship. The psychoanalytic concepts of narcissism symbiosis twinning false self projection projective identification cleavage dissociation are related to psychotic neurotic borderline perverse functioning in psycho-dynamic vision but keeping the reference of international psychiatric diagnostic classifications. The book represents an interface between psychiatry and psychoanalysis showing that the psychiatric patient is in a living dynamic an organism whose history is written and rewritten according to the doctor-patient dynamic.