Narratives and stories currently have an important social and research relevance. The lin- guistic and narrative turn in the 1980 s notably contributed to this. The contributions of Geertz in anthropology, of Ricoeur in philosophy and of Bruner in psychology have had and have a strong influence on the new research and intervention models in the different social sciences and in applied fields such as education, health, psychotherapy, management, social work and community development. Maria Francesca Freda’s book proposes a reflection on the intersection between narration and psychoanalytically-oriented therapy. In this sense, the book carries on and enriches Shaf- fer’s contribution, in the sense of proposing a global reconstruction of the psychoanalytical model of therapy from a narratological and constructivist viewpoint. This book has three parts, dedicated respectively to the narrative turn, the conceptual description of narrations and the narrative interventions in psychotherapeutic contexts. In the first part, Freda reviews the semiotical and narrative turn from a paradigmatic and conceptual perspective. The theoretical starting out point is critical and socio-cultural con- structivism. Here the contributions of Gergen, Hoffman, Vigotskij, Benjamin, Brooks, Geertz, Ricouer and Bruner merge are integrated. The socio-constructivist paradigm stresses the processual and semiotical conception of the mind, as well as the intersubjective character of the construction of meanings. Freda transcends traditional cognitivism and highlights the emotional roots of narrative processes in a trajectory that takes us from Freud to Anzieu. However, this book goes beyond this general and paradigmatic framework to connect nar- ratives with the conception of the mind and the unconscious of psychoanalysis. This task is developed in Chapter 3 – the longest in the work and the most difficult – dedicated to the dis- cussion of these subject matters, paying special attention to the work of Bion and Matte Blan- co, two creative and inspiring psychoanalysts. The semiotical conception of the unconscious involves a structural, processual, intersubjective and contextual perspective of the function- ing of the mind. To deploy this approach, Freda presents Bion’s concepts such as the alpha function, the container and the content, the oscillation between the schizo-paranoid position and the depressive position, and the theory of thought as transformation. Emotion is interpret- ed as a breakup of the links and assumes an anti-cognoscitive function. In this context, the development of the alpha function (Bion) or assymetrising function (Matte Blanco) give rise to thought and its capacity of integrating and transforming the symbolisation of the original José González MONTEAGUDO* Dan Florin STÃNESCU** Review of Narrazione e intervento in psicologia clinica [Narration and intervention in clinical psychology] by Maria Francesca Freda, Napoli: Liguori Editore, 2008, 238 pages * Department of Theory and History of Education and Social Pedagogy, University of Seville, Spain, monteagu@hotmail.com. ** College of Communication and Public Relations, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania, dan.stanescu@comunicare.ro.