Cosimo Schinaia
“Paedophilia and Psychoanalysis”
The heart of a child in the adult body and with the adult mind – this is how the paedophiles describe themselves. Such “children” in reality think as beings, who grew up prematurely and got deprived of the adult emotional stability. The merit of Cosimo Schinaia is that he, by delving into the hidden, inaccessible to the conscious, “illegal” thinking zones of a paedophile, conducted a general research based on the materials of the forensic psychiatry. In eighteen years after the publication of the first edition, translated into six languages, this text has become the international touchstone for the research on child abuse. In this renewed and enriched edition Schinaia presents the clinical experience and analysis of the changes in the socio-cultural environment related to the gradual destruction of the ancient tradition of the veil of silence.

gradual destruction of the ancient tradition of the veil of silence.