Pedofilia e Psicoanalisi

 

BRIEF SYNOPSIS
Paedophiles describe themselves as having a ‘heart of a child in a body and a mind of an adult’. In this way they assert the lawfulness of their “love for the children. But in this manner, childhood is not only becoming  ‘adultified but is also being denied. 

Why have psychoanalysts not been sufficiently interested in the issue of paedophilia, and specifically in the psychopathology of the paedophile? 
Through its twelve chapters, this book proceeds to deepen and broaden the knowledge of the psychopathology of the paedophile.

After 18 years from the book Pedofilia Pedofilie, translated in six languages (English: On paedophilia, Karnac, London, 2010), this book, Pedofilia e Psicoanalisi, updates both the clinical experiences and the analysis of the socio-cultural horizon where different paedophilias thrive. 



PUBLISHER
Italian: Bollati Boringhieri, Turin, Italy, 2019
Russian: Psyllabus, Moscow, 2021

AUTHOR
Cosimo Schinaia
ITALIAN PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY

AUTHOR BIO
Cosimo Schinaia is a psychiatrist who had worked as Director of Mental Health Department of Central Genoa for many years. He is training and supervising psychoanalyst of SPI (Italian Psychoanalytical Society) and full member of IPA (International Psychoanalytical Association) and works in private practice in Genoa.

His books are:

  1. Dal manicomio alla città (From the Psychiatric Hospital to the City), Rome-Bari: Laterza, 1997. 
  2. Il cantiere delle idee (The Place in which Ideas are Built), Genoa: La Clessidra, 1998. 
  3. Pedofilia Pedofilie. La psicoanalisi e il mondo del pedofilo, Turin: Bollati Boringhieri, 2001, translated in English, (On Paedophilia, London: Karnac, 2010), Spanish, (Pedofilia Pedofilias. El psicoanálisis y el mundo del pedófilo, Madrid: El Duende, 2011), Portuguese (Pedofilia Pedofilias. A psicanálise e o mundo do pedófilo, São Paulo: EDUSP, 2015), Polish, (Pedofilia. Psychoanaliza i świat pedofila. Gdansk: GWP, 2016), French, (Figures de la pédophilie. La psychanalyse et le monde du pédophile, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2017) and German (Pädophilie. Eine psychoanalytische Untersuchung, Giessen: Psychoasozial Verlag, 2018);
  4. Il Dentro e il fuori. Psicoanalisi e architettura, Genoa: Il Melangolo, 2014.
  5. Interno Esterno. Sguardi psicoanalitici su architettura e urbanistica, Rome: Alpes, 2016, translated in English Psychoanalysis and Architecture. The Inside and the Outside, London: Karnac, and in Spanish Interno Externo. Miradas psicoanalíticas sobre arquitectura y urbanismo, Buenos Aires: Biebel, 2019).
  6. Il presepio dei folli. Scene da un manicomio (The Nativity of Fools. Scenes from an Old Psychiatric Hospital), Rome: Alpes, 2018. 
  7. Pedofilia e psicoanalisi (Psychoanalysis and Paedophilia) (Bollati Boringhieri, 2019). 



    His most recent publication is: Respect for the environment: Psychoanalytic considerations on the ecological crisis, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 100, 2: 272-286, 2019.