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“Sulivan Revisited - Life and Work”, by Marco Conci, is an extensive effort to lay down in a structured manner not only the life and work of Harry Stack Sullivan, but the obvious overdetermination between personal history, profession, work, quests, pursuits, and the atmosphere of those “terrible” times of research, development and innovation.
Marco Conci, as a careful and honest guide of the life and work of Sullivan, divided the book in two parts. The first part is an accurate excurse in the historical and scientific context of Sulivans's life and work along with an overview of significant events and circumstances of his life, and the second one will approach the relevance of Sullivan's theory, work and contributions in the today psychotherapy, clinical implication of the Interpersonal Theory as the communication language with profound psychic layers of the mind, his influence in social sciences, his contribution on relational psychoanalysis, and his innovative way of understanding and approaching Schizophrenia (the Anthology Schizophrenia as a Human Process, ; ).
In other words, Marco Conci's remarkable effort to integrate and reconstruct, in a comprehensive “moving-picture”, not just a life, but a dynamic history of cultural and scientific atmosphere in which Sullivan lived and worked, gives the reader the understanding of the contextuality of the broad material presented in the book.
More than that, the author will make references to the previous Helen Perry's biography of Sullivan completing and adding in the parenthesis left open by her. I mentioned above that Marco Conci is a