Cosimo Schinaia is a psychiatrist who worked as Director of Mental Health Centre of Central Genoa for many years. He is a training and supervising psychoanalyst of SPI (Italian Psychoanalytical Society) and a full member of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He has published many scientific papers for both Italian and international journals and books, including ' Dal Manicomio alla Citta'; 'Il Cantiere delle Idee'; and 'Pedofilia Pedofilie: La Psicoanalisi e il Mondo del Pedofilo'. He currently lives and works in private practice in Genoa.

'Metaphors of restoration or of moving house are often present during analysis to convey the idea of profound changes in the patient's emotional life. In this fine book, the author goes further, finding in 'creativity' the common denominator of psychoanalysis and architecture. These two 'sciences' continually cross over into art. The office of a psychoanalyst and the office of an architect are constantly called upon to become ateliers of transformations and inventive dwellings in the internal and external world. This book opens a door to new adventures of the mind. Definitely not to be missed.'- Antonino Ferro, author of The Analytic Field and its Transformations

• Author’s note , Foreword to the English Edition , Preface to the Italian Edition , Introduction , The origins of a meeting , Fruitful contaminations , The metaphorical architecture of mind , The space , Architecture between past, present, and future , Continuity and discontinuity in psychoanalysis , The haste in the world around us , The uncanny , Psychoanalysis and architecture: the need for an interdisciplinary debate , The house , Therapy places , The analyst's consulting room , Some notes and suggestions on a possible partnership between architects and psychoanalysts , Concluding Remarks , Afterword to the English Edition

Cosimo Schinaia is a psychiatrist who worked as Director of Mental Health Centre of Central Genoa for many years. He is a training and supervising psychoanalyst of SPI (Italian Psychoanalytical Society) and a full member of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He has published many scientific papers for both Italian and international journals and books, including ' Dal Manicomio alla Citta'; 'Il Cantiere delle Idee'; and 'Pedofilia Pedofilie: La Psicoanalisi e il Mondo del Pedofilo'. He currently lives and works in private practice in Genoa.

'Metaphors of restoration or of moving house are often present during analysis to convey the idea of profound changes in the patient's emotional life. In this fine book, the author goes further, finding in 'creativity' the common denominator of psychoanalysis and architecture. These two 'sciences' continually cross over into art. The office of a psychoanalyst and the office of an architect are constantly called upon to become ateliers of transformations and inventive dwellings in the internal and external world. This book opens a door to new adventures of the mind. Definitely not to be missed.'- Antonino Ferro, author of The Analytic Field and its Transformations

• Author’s note , Foreword to the English Edition , Preface to the Italian Edition , Introduction , The origins of a meeting , Fruitful contaminations , The metaphorical architecture of mind , The space , Architecture between past, present, and future , Continuity and discontinuity in psychoanalysis , The haste in the world around us , The uncanny , Psychoanalysis and architecture: the need for an interdisciplinary debate , The house , Therapy places , The analyst's consulting room , Some notes and suggestions on a possible partnership between architects and psychoanalysts , Concluding Remarks , Afterword to the English Edition

Cosimo Schinaia is a psychiatrist who worked as Director of Mental Health Centre of Central Genoa for many years. He is a training and supervising psychoanalyst of SPI (Italian Psychoanalytical Society) and a full member of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He has published many scientific papers for both Italian and international journals and books, including ' Dal Manicomio alla Citta'; 'Il Cantiere delle Idee'; and 'Pedofilia Pedofilie: La Psicoanalisi e il Mondo del Pedofilo'. He currently lives and works in private practice in Genoa.

'Metaphors of restoration or of moving house are often present during analysis to convey the idea of profound changes in the patient's emotional life. In this fine book, the author goes further, finding in 'creativity' the common denominator of psychoanalysis and architecture. These two 'sciences' continually cross over into art. The office of a psychoanalyst and the office of an architect are constantly called upon to become ateliers of transformations and inventive dwellings in the internal and external world. This book opens a door to new adventures of the mind. Definitely not to be missed.'- Antonino Ferro, author of The Analytic Field and its Transformations

• Author’s note , Foreword to the English Edition , Preface to the Italian Edition , Introduction , The origins of a meeting , Fruitful contaminations , The metaphorical architecture of mind , The space , Architecture between past, present, and future , Continuity and discontinuity in psychoanalysis , The haste in the world around us , The uncanny , Psychoanalysis and architecture: the need for an interdisciplinary debate , The house , Therapy places , The analyst's consulting room , Some notes and suggestions on a possible partnership between architects and psychoanalysts , Concluding Remarks , Afterword to the English Edition