de Masi, Franco <br/><br/>
The Loss of Self in Psychoanalytic Clinical Practice 

 -  2013.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> The author aims to shed light on the similarities and differences between depersonalised states in the neuroses and in borderline states, and he formulates some hypotheses concerning depersonalisation in psychotic process. There are many possible reasons for depersonalisation and the process reveals different dynamics in the various syndromes. In neuroses, the self maintains a continuity despite a temporary confusion that is transposed by an experience of anxiety. In psychosis, the process is much more radical and continuous, for the distortion of emotional reality alters the thinking functions, sometimes irreversibly.