Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry: Partners and Competitors in the Mental Health Field offers a comprehensive overview of the many links between the two fields.

IPA Series Editor and APA President forewords; Introduction to the book by Clàudio Eizirik and Giovanni Foresti Part I: The Mental Health field: global trends and local specificities Chapter 1: Psychoanalysis, psychiatry and the new frontiers of contemporary mental distress and its treatment Antonio Andreoli Chapter 2: Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry in Latin America: historical aspects and current challenges Cláudio Laks Eizirik Chapter 3: Psychoanalysis: Its Glorious Past, Its Troubled Present, And Its Uncertain Future Allen Frances Chapter 4: Working together. Some institutional psychodynamics between Psychoanalysts and Psychiatrists Robert. D. Hinshelwood Chapter 5: Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry and Medicine Robert Michels Chapter 6: Psychoanalysis and psychiatry: between clinical culture and organisational culture Mario Perini Part II: The clinical practice: nosology, diagnoses and treatments Chapter 7: What Psychopathology can learn from Neuropsychodynamic Psychiatry? A spatiotemporal Approach Boeker H., Hartwich P., Northoff G Chapter 8: Reflections on psychoanalytic supervision changes in psychiatry Stefano Bolognini Chapter 9: The Person with the Diagnosis Glen O. Gabbard Chapter 10: The second edition of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM-2): Sensible diagnosis for sensitive clinicians Vittorio Lingiardi Chapter 11: The Structural Interview Otto F. Kernberg Chapter 12: Clinical picture as an open window: From symptoms to a phenomenological-dynamic stance on the patient¿s world Mario Rossi Monti Chapter 13: The importance of psychodynamic diagnosis in patients with severe mental illnesses Humberto Persano Chapter 14: Self-disorders in psychosis: a possible integrative concept of phenomenology and psychoanalysis Bent Rosenbaum, Mads Gram Henriksen & Borut Skodlar Part III: The formative dimension: teaching and continual education Chapter 15: Beyond supervision ¿ La mujer que llora: Clinical Group Seminars as Psychoanalytic Experience Ferruta Anna Chapter 16: Teaching Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy to Residents in Psychiatry: Windows of Friendship or Animosity? Do-Un Jeong Chapter 17: Proving the Impact of Psychoanalysis on Daily Psychiatric Practice: Structured Programs and Clinical Guidance Joachim Küchenhoff Chapter 18: The white bicycle: how could general psychiatry benefit from psychoanalytic theories and practice? Levent Küey Chapter 19: "What shall we do?" Bridging Psychoanalysis and non-analysts Susana Muszkat Chapter 20: A "bridge" between psychoanalysis and psychiatry Andrea Narracci Chapter 21: Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry Florence Quartier Chapter 22: The Movement of Therapeutic Communities in Italy: Myth & Reality Marta Vigorelli