David Dean Brockman, M.D. is Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst and Emeritus Faculty at The Institute for Psychoanalysis of Chicago, and Clinical Professor at the University of Illinois Department of Psychiatry. He has had a clinical practice of psychiatry and psychoanalysis for more than fifty years.

Brockman connects spirituality with psychoanalysis throughout this book as he looks at Dante's early writings, his life story and his 'polysemious' classical poem The Divine Comedy.

1. Psychoanalysis and Spirituality: A Psychoanalytic View of Religious Conversion 2. A Precis of the Mourning Process in Dante's Early Writings 3. A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Dante's Commedia