Artwork: Melencolia I, by Albrecht Dürer (1514) There are people who seem to have developed a particularly intimate relationship with efficiency, productivity and the need for self-improvement. They are people who frequently set high standards for themselves, invest intensely in what they do and rarely feel satisfied due to the sense that something could have been done better. Not necessarily because they are unable to recognise what they have achieved, but because the very experience of...

Artwork: The Burning Giraffe (1937) by Salvador Dalí When someone seeks a deeper therapeutic process, an inevitable question often arises: why choose psychoanalysis? And among the different contemporary approaches, why relational psychoanalysis? These questions are not merely about theoretical or technical preferences. Rather, they relate to a particular understanding of the human mind, of psychological suffering, and of the possibilities for transformation within the personality....

Introduction The consumption of substances and drug addiction present themselves as global issues. Recent investigations by the World...