On Paedophilia

by Cosimo Schinaia, Antonella Sansone (Translator)

Overview

This book deepens the communicative dynamics by which even through the mass media the paedophile has become the plague-spreader. It is an attempt to underline that only an integrative approach can give an appropriate answer to the clinical complexity characterising paedophilic pictures.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781855755895
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/29/2010
Pages:	346
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Cosimo Schinaia is a psychiatrist who worked as Director of Mental Health Centre of Central Genoa for many years. He is a training and supervising psychoanalyst of SPI (Italian Psychoanalytical Society) and a full member of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He has published many scientific papers for both Italian and international journals and books, including Dal Manicomio alla Città; Il Cantiere delle Idee; and Pedofilia Pedofilie: La Psicoanalisi e il Mondo del Pedofilo. He currently lives and works in private practice in Genoa.

Antonella Sansone is a research/clinical psychologist particularly interested in pre and postnatal life. She is a yoga practitioner and this reflects her belief in the importance of the mind and body unity and balance as foundation of health. As a baby massage teacher, she believes that mindful massage for infants has the potential to regulate the mother-baby psychobiological rhythms and thus be a vital part of the bonding process and a reassuring extension of the womb environment.

Table of Contents

Foreword — Introduction to the English Edition — Introduction — Social and cultural aspects which foster paedophilic behaviour — Myth and paedophilia — Fairy tales and paedophilic fantasies — Notes on the history of paedophilia — Paedophilia in medical and psychiatric thought — Psychoanalysis and paedophilia — Contributions to the definition and typology of paedophilic personalities and behaviours through fiction — The paedophilic relationship — A case of paedophilic perversion — A case of paedophilic perversity — The working group

Editorial Reviews

"Cosimo Schinaia’s book On Paedophilia is....an impressive, scholarly, and much needed addition to psychoanalytic literature on this neglected subject. In his Introduction, Schinaia responds to the meagre psychoanalytic bibliography on paedophilia by asking: 'why have psychoanalysts not been interested in the issue of paedophilia, and specifically in the psychopathology of the paedophile'? He not only proceeds to address that question, but through the eleven chapters of his book Dr Schinaia and his colleagues proceed to deepen and broaden our knowledge of the psychopathology of the paedophile."

Donald Campbell

"Cosimo Schinaia’s book On Paedophilia is....an impressive, scholarly, and much needed addition to psychoanalytic literature on this neglected subject. In his Introduction, Schinaia responds to the meagre psychoanalytic bibliography on paedophilia by asking: 'why have psychoanalysts not been interested in the issue of paedophilia, and specifically in the psychopathology of the paedophile'? He not only proceeds to address that question, but through the eleven chapters of his book Dr Schinaia and his colleagues proceed to deepen and broaden our knowledge of the psychopathology of the paedophile."

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