Herbert Rosenfeld at Work

Dr Herbert Rosenfeld (1909-1986) was born in Germany and came to Britain as a refugee in 1935. An analysand of Melanie Klein, his particular interest in the schizophrenias established him as one of the foremost authorities on the elucidation of psychotic states from a Kleinian perspective. Franco De Masi is a Training and Supervising Analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society and former President of Centro Milanese di Psicoanalisi and Secretary of the Training Milanese Institute. He is a medical doctor and a psychiatrist who worked for twenty years in psychiatric hospitals. Now he lives and works as a full time psychoanalyst in Milan. Currently his main interests are focused on the theoretical and technical psychoanalytical issues related to severely ill patients. He has published several papers in 'The International Journal of Psychoanalysis' and in the 'Rivista Italiana di Psicoanalisi'. He is author and editor of numerous books including 'Making Death Thinkable'.

• Preface to the English Edition , Foreword , Preface to the Italian Edition , Introduction , Theoretical Seminars , Psychotic transference diagnosis and treatment issues in the analysis of a psychotic adolescent , The relationship between psychosomatic symptoms and latent psychotic states , Communication problems between patient and analyst in psychotic and borderline patients , The analyst’s use of phantasy , Clinical Seminars , Traumatic infancy , Transference in psychosis , Persecutory anxiety , A primitive psychic structure , Crisis situations

'Rosenfeld's particular theoretical approach is a combination of his clinical experience and his capacity for- or, one should say, art of observation and interpretation. He has the gift of an astonishing capacity for identification with psychotic sufferance, defenses, and ways of thinking.'- Riccardo Steiner from the Preface