In Half Prisoner, Half Winged, Riccardo Lombardi observes that in psychoanalysis there is only a “rhapsodic” (i.e., infrequent) interest in the body-mind relationship, and proposes a more insistent focus on it, both in theory and in practice, a focus that aims at the integration of mind and body. This book consists of nine short chapters, interspersed with several clinical examples taken from the author's practice or from that of his supervisees. At the end there is an appendix: “Historical Note on the Body-Mind Relationship in Psychoanalysis.”

In chapter 1 Lombardi insists, in a way that reminds us of Plato's body-mind dualism, on the “limits enforced by our body: an area that