Vite Soffiate: Edizioni Frenis Zero

by Giuseppe Leo, Alberto Angelini (Preface)

What kind of mystery does it hide behind these psychoanalysts' suicides: Tatiana Rosenthal, Viktor Tausk, Wilhelm Stekel, Herbert Silberer? Karin Stephen, a sister-in-law of Virginia Woolf, psychoanalyst herself, decides to follow the biographical tracks of these who all were authentically pioneers of the psychoanalysis, someone of them even very close to Sigmund Freud. During a stay at Zurich, Karin comes up against an unpublished manuscript, written by Otto Gross, an austrian psychoanalyst who was admitted several times into psychiatric asylums for drug addiction. Otto's papers seem to her to contain illuminating revelations about these losers of psychoanalysis, whose lives seem to be interlaced through exchanges of letters, poetries, journal fragments. But Otto's manuscript is litterary falsehood or authentic? Finally, Karin Stephen herself will die in the same way of her colleagues whose lives she dedicated herself: she committed suicide in 1953 in Britain.

264 pages, Paperback

First published December 15, 2011

About the author

Born at Taranto (Italy), he lives in Lecce (Italy) and in Florence, and works as Psychiatrist in a local Mental Health Department. He currently speaks English and French languages. He has obtained the degree in Medicine and the specializations in Psychiatry and in Clinical Criminology (University of Bari). Having got a psychoanalytic training, at the present time he works as brief dynamic psychotherapist, with particular interest for adolescent psychopathology, and as group therapist (psychoanalytic approach) with young schizophrenic outpatients. Among his professional experiences: stage in 1994 at the "Service psychotherapeutique pour enfants et adolescents" of the University of Strasbourg (France), directed by Claude Bursztejn; psychiatrist with a temporary appointment in the ULSS of Portogruaro (Venice - Italy).
From 2004 to 2015 he attended the supervision seminars and the training psychotherapeutic groups at Venice (Italy), directed by Salomon Resnik (I.P.A. psychoanalyst).
Since 2022 he is member of IARPP (International Association of Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy) whose main office is in New York.
He is founder of A.S.S.E.Psi. (Association for the Study of the History and the Epistemology of Psychiatry web site: http://web.tiscali.it/bibliopsi ) and Ce.Psi.Di. (Center of Dynamic Psychotherapy) which publishes the web revue "FRENIS ZERO" (web site http://web.tiscali.it/bibliopsi/freni... ). "Frenis Zero" wants to explore the border areas between psychoanalysis on the one hand and arts, philosophy and neuroscience on the other.
In 2007 he founded "Edizioni Frenis Zero" ("Frenis Zero Publishing House").
He published 26 books as an editor/author in 3 languages, English, Italian and French.
He published chapters in 5 books in 4 languages, English, Italian, Spanish and French.
He is the author of 43 other book chapters, journal papers, congress talks and movie/book reviews, published in English, French, Italian.
He is the author of two fiction books: 1) BLOWN LIVES (Vite Soffiate) A TALE FOR SPIELREIN, GROSS, TAUSK AND THE OTHER LOSERS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS;
2) MY IDEAS FELT LIKE OUTSIZE CLOTHES. A TALE FOR ETTY HILLESUM.