Cases of sexual abuse feature increasingly frequently in the daily press and media and awareness of these problems has undoubtedly increased, but information about and analysis of the phenomenon tend to be incorrect: civil society is generally poorly informed about sexual aggressors and their victims.
Theodor Reik (1888-1969), pupil and friend of Freud, is one of the greats of contemporary psychoanalysis. His Listening with the Third Ear, never translated into Italian, is a legendary twentieth-century work. This study by Duccio Sacchi presents, once again, the key points of Reikian thought, which heralds the most modern therapeutic outlooks; at the same time it illustrates, through an emblematic historical example, the links between the practice of psychoanalytical therapy and the teaching of psychoanalysis.