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It is extremely gratifying to come across a text in the field of psychoanalysis which illuminates but at the same time provokes debate; only a writer of some considerable skill is able to achieve this. However, the description is undoubtedly true of Gley Silva de Pacheco Costa, a psychoanalyst of deep and wide-ranging clinical experience and gifted teacher, and his work in producing this book. Costa's writing is gaining in stature in Brazilian, and even international, psychoanalysis because he tackles areas of current concern, as he does in this book, but he is also known for the outstanding lucidity and erudition of his accounts of clinical investigations. Several chapters of this book are written with colleagues, demonstrating the spirit of collaboration and willingness to recognize contributions from fellow academics that characterize Costa's analytic stance and dedication to psychoanalysis. Highly regarded by many of his psychoanalyst colleagues including notable practitioners, this author and his work deserve to be more widely appreciated and recognized. This review is intended to go some way towards achieving this.
Has anything about psychoanalysis altered as it has been accompanying the socio-cultural change we have been going through? Do we have a proper grip on the causes of the illnesses peculiar to human existence in our present time, based on the psychopathological expressions we see in our patients in our everyday clinical activity? Do human beings continue to be