Pia De Silvestris is a psychotherapist who lives and practises in Rome. She is a full member of the Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Children, Adolescents and Couples (SIPsIA) and the Italian Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (SIPP), and teaches on the training programmes of both societies. She has published widely on psychoanalytic journals, and has co-authored several books in Italian, including Transference in Child Psychoanalysis (1994), Childhood Depression (1997), Transcribing the Unconscious (2002), and Awareness and Self-Analysis (2005).
Through clinical illustrations and theoretical considerations, Difficult Identities discusses the centrality of transference in helping young patients overcome the difficulties in constructing their... (more)