Mindscapes: The Psyche in the Landscape [Hardcover]

This book explores the links between the psyche and the landscapeon the continuum that runs from our mental world inside to our surrounding world outside. Our sense of self is shaped by our environment, while it also helps to create the environment we perceive.

In Mindscapes Poet Psychoanalyst Vittorio Lingiardi, a writer of astounding brilliance, erudition, and exuberant inventiveness, guides us on a tour through the seemingly endless worlds of the human mind and the non-human environment as they do and do not connect. Be prepared to allow Lingiardis reflections to open your psychoanalytic mind to an expanded consciousness of the manifold dimensions of our human meeting with our environmental other. Mindscapes gives us a wider, more powerful and com/passionate lens through which to view and to illuminate the complexity of our time.

Jessica Benjamin, psychoanalyst, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

In this compelling and searching book Vittorio Lingiardi links the many worlds in which we livefrom our deeply private internal world to our social life in the real.  A fascinating and important book.

Christopher Bollas, psychoanalyst, British Psychoanalytical Society

Mindscapes by Vittorio Lingiardi explores how landscapes reflect our inner selves, drawing from psychoanalysis, neuroscience, literature, and art. An insightful and beautifully written book appealing to nature lovers, emphasizing the importance of external spaces in understanding who we are. A must read. 

Vittorio Gallese, neuroscientist, University of Parma, Italy<l3™