David Rosenfeld is a consultant professor at Buenos Aires University; Faculty of Medicine in the Department of Mental Health and Psychiatry; a training analyst of the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Society, and a former Vice-President of the International Psychoanalytical Association

• Foreword , Preface , Psychosis and Psychotic Part , Psychosis and psychotic part: a clinical approach , Identification and its vicissitudes in relation to the Nazi phenomenon , Psychosis and cardiac transplant , Countertransference and the psychotic part of the personality , Child analysis: technique and psychotic aspects of the personality , Psychosis, Technique, and Body Image , Technique, acting out, and psychosomatics , The handling of resistances in adult patients , Hypochondrias, somatic delusion and body image , Drug Addiction, Impulsions, and Linguistics , Drug abuse and inanimate objects , Psychoanalysis of the impulsive character: a linguistic-communicative study , Linguistics and psychosis

'The Psychotic: Aspects of the Personality commands particular respect because its author maintains an open-minded attitude towards the many still unresolved questions regarding psychosis. He concentrates his efforts on clinical aspects of psychotic patients that are approachable by the psychoanalytic method; on illuminating continuities of different types of psychopathology where one would not a priori have suspected them; on illustrating the functions of primitive defense operations in the transference and countertransference; and on conveying a live and in-depth narrative of the technical approach. For all these reasons, his book should be most helpful to the clinician, challenging and stimulating to the psychoanalytic researcher and theoretician, and a significant contribution to a very contemporary aspect of psychoanalytic exploration.'- Dr Otto Kernberg, in his Foreword