For more than 20 years Antonello Correale has been trying to fulfill a rather difficult task, i.e. to combine his institutional experience in a Psychiatric Counselling Service and his work as a psychoanalyst. In fact, he is a practising psychoanalyst and member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society and he is also in charge of the ‘Roma B’ psychiatric counselling centre serving a large urban area. His latest book further testifies to the difficulty in reconciling these two roles, which is again mainly due to the tricky frontier where psychoanalysis and psychiatry meet and clash. Here Correale reviews, traces and expands on his thought and on his latest research: the traumatic area and psychosis, borderline disorder, institutional groups and their dynamics and other issues close to philosophy such as boredom and narration in the last but significant part of this book devoted to in-depth