Diego Busiol is a licensed psychologist and licensed psychotherapist in his native country of Italy, and obtained his PhD from City University of Hong Kong. As a psychoanalyst, he has maintained a private practice in Hong Kong for several years.

Acknowledgments

Glossary of terms

Introduction

Diego Busiol

Part 1

1 The evolution of psychic symptoms from Freud's Studies on Hysteria to today

Diego Busiol

2 How to listen in analysis

Diego Busiol

3 Desire and enjoyment in psychoanalysis

Diego Busiol

4 The listening, the linguistic precision, the intervention

Giancarlo Calciolari

5 Timeline of Lacan in Italy, and further developments of psychoanalysis in Italy

Diego Busiol

The contributors to this book

Part 2: Classic Discourses

6 With Freud and Lacan: Hysteria, anorexia/bulimia, and other contemporary clinical questions

Jean-Luc Cacciali

Interview with Charles Melman

7 From phobia to obsessive discourse

Gabriele Lodari

8 Reading Freud with Lacan. Brief essay on paranoia. Or how to extricate oneself, at the dawn of the third millennium, from an impossible narration

Fabrizio Gambini

Interview with Fabrizio Gambini

Part 3: Modern Symptoms

9 Panic as a phenomenon of modernity

Marco Focchi

10 Anorexia, bulimia, binge-eating and obesity. An interview with Domenico Cosenza

Domenico Cosenza and Diego Busiol

11 Depressions

Franco Lolli

12 Addictions: Toxicomania and Others

Jean-Louis Chassaing

13 Limit-states or Borderline

Jean-Louis Chassaing

Part 4: Transversal questions

14 The relationship with the mother

Renata Miletto

15 Listening to Perversion

Sergio Benvenuto

Interview with Sergio Benvenuto

16 Clinic of the void. An interview with Massimo Recalcati

Massimo Recalcati

17 Good and bad encounters with jealousy

Paule Cacciali