Giuseppe Civitarese is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst with the Italian Psychoanalytical Society (SPI) and the International Psychoanalytic Association. He is author of L’intima stanza (2008) and Psicoanalisi in giallo (2011) both published by Raffaello Cortina; The Violence of Emotions (2014); The Necessary Dream (2014); I sensi e l’inconscio (Borla, 2014). He is co-author of Sognare l’analisi (Bollati Boringhieri, 2007); and The Analytic Field and its Transformations (with A. Ferro, 2015) and is managing editor of the SPI’s Rivista di Psicoanalisi.