Cosimo Schinaia is a training and supervising psychoanalyst of SPI (Italian Psychoanalytic Society) and a full member of IPA (International Psychoanalytical Association), working in private practice in Genoa. He was formerly the director of the Cogoleto Psychiatric Hospital (Genoa) and of the Mental Health Centre of Central Genoa. He has published many scientific papers on psychoanalysis and psychiatry in Italian and international journals and edited books. His books include On Paedophilia (Routledge, 2010), also published in Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, German, Russian and Greek, Psychoanalysis and Architecture: The Inside and the Outside (Routledge, 2016), also published in Italian, Spanish and French, and Psychoanalysis and Ecology: The Unconscious and the Environment (Routledge, 2022), also published in Italian, French, Spanish, Russian, Greek and Portuguese.

Series Editor's Foreword by Silvia Flechner

Acknowledgements

Introduction to the English edition

Foreword by Fausto Petrella

Introduction to the Italian edition

1 Cogoleto Psychiatric Hospital

2 Thinking Beyond the Asylum

3 Projects and Materials for a Nativity Scene in the Asylum

4 The Nativity

5 Segregation

6 The Square

7 The Doctors' Office

8 Electroshock

9 The Children's Ward

10 Work

11 Death

12 Between Past and Future