On Paedophilia

A topical and complete examination of the phenomena of paedophilia starting with a historical overview and then proceeding to a psychoanalytic examination of its structure and treatment. Contents include: Social and cultural aspects fostering paedophilic behaviour; Myth and paedophilia, Paedophilic fairy tales and fables; The pederast relationship in Classical Greece; Paedophilia in the Middle Ages, Paedophilia in medical and psychiatric thought, Psychoanalysis and paedophilia; Contributions to the definition and typology of paedophilic personalities and behaviours through fiction; The paedophilic relationship; A case of paedophilic perversion; A case of paedophilic perversity; The work group.

Cosimo Schinaia is a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, Director of the Mental Health Centre of Central Genoa. He is an ordinary member of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society and a full member of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He deals predominantly with the psychoanalysis of serious pathologies, the relationship between psychoanalysis and psychiatry, and the communication between psychoanalysis and other disciplines.