This book combines the approaches of phenomenological psychopathology, Gestalt psychology and therapy, and field theory into a new view of the suffering person : instead of attributing to him a dysfunction that medical therapy has to correct, Francesetti’s conception sees the dysfunction as a change in the phenomenal field that connects patient and therapist as embodied persons and produces an interactive psychopathological dynamics.

Francesetti thus succeeds in overcoming the still dominant notion of an « inner psyche » and a correspondingly individualistic view of psychopathology : The « in-between » is the actual place of the disorder, its diagnosis and therapy.

Thomas Fuchs,
Heidelberg