The mental health field : global trends and local specificities -- Psychoanalysis, psychiatry and the new frontiers of contemporary mental distress and its treatment / Antonio Andreoli -- Psychoanalysis and psychiatry in Latin America : historical aspects and current challenges / Cláudio Laks Eizirik -- Psychoanalysis : its glorious past, its troubled present, and its uncertain future / Allen Frances -- Working together : some institutional psychodynamics between psychoanalysts and psychiatrists / Robert. D. Hinshelwood -- Psychoanalysis, psychiatry and medicine / Robert Michels -- Psychoanalysis and psychiatry : between clinical culture and organisational culture / Mario Perini -- The clinical practice: nosology, diagnoses and treatments -- What psychopathology can learn from neuropsychodynamic psychiatry? : a spatiotemporal approach / Boeker H., Hartwich P., Northoff G -- Reflections on psychoanalytic supervision changes in psychiatry / Stefano Bolognini -- The person with the diagnosis / Glen O. Gabbard -- The second edition of the psychodynamic diagnostic manual (pdm-2) : sensible diagnosis for sensitive clinicians / Vittorio Lingiardi -- The structural interview / Otto F. Kernberg -- Clinical picture as an open window : from symptoms to a phenomenological-dynamic stance on the patient's world / Mario Rossi Monti -- The importance of psychodynamic diagnosis in patients with severe mental illnesses / Humberto Persano -- Self-disorders in psychosis : a possible integrative concept of phenomenology and psychoanalysis / Bent Rosenbaum, Mads Gram Henriksen & Borut Skodlar -- The formative dimension: teaching and continual education -- Beyond supervision : la mujer que llora : clinical group seminars as psychoanalytic experience / Ferruta Anna -- Teaching psychoanalytic psychotherapy to residents in psychiatry : windows of friendship or animosity? / Do-Un Jeong -- Proving the impact of psychoanalysis on daily psychiatric practice : structured programs and clinical guidance / Joachim Küchenhoff -- The white bicycle : how could general psychiatry benefit from psychoanalytic theories and practice? / Levent Küey -- "What shall we do?" : bridging psychoanalysis and non-analysts / Susana Muszkat -- A "bridge" between psychoanalysis and psychiatry / Andrea Narracci -- Psychoanalysis and psychiatry / Florence Quartier -- The movement of therapeutic communities in italy : myth & reality / Marta Vigorelli -- References -- Index.