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This book is the longest in the output of one of Spain's most prolific and well-known psychoanalytical authors, and illustrates well his professional profile, which also includes psychology and psychiatry. Throughout his long professional life, Tizón has found a way to combine dedication to clinical psychoanalysis in private practice with the management of a psychosocial primarycare team in the public mental-health system, the first such in Barcelona. Some of his numerous research- and teaching-inspired articles and books are devoted to reflection on epistemology and psychoanalytic knowledge and to dealing with psychopathology from a clinical psychoanalytic perspective; others deal with the application of psychoanalysis to healthcare. The latter (particularly Tizón García, 1996, 1999) have become standard works of reference for many interested Spanish-speaking readers.
At the present time, when a crisis in psychoanalysis, psychoanalysts’ fears of loss of identity and of the risks of devoting oneself to interfacing activities are so