 | Covert Operations Unveiling Organized Crime: Using Operation Donnie Brasco to Understand the Complex Trauma of Deep Cover Subjects: Behavioral Sciences; Humanities; Language & Literature; Law; Politics & International Relations; Social Sciences; Cultural Studies; Socio-Legal Studies; Psychological Science; Mental Health; Media & Film Studies; Literature; Criminology - Law; Military & Strategic Studies; Security Studies - Pol & Intl Relns; Anthropology - Soc Sci; Sociology & Social Policy; Criminology and Criminal Justice; Psychoanalysis; Psychiatry & Clinical Psychology - Adult; Popular Culture; Crime Control - Criminology; Criminal Justice - Criminology; Criminological Psychology; Cultural Criminology; Historical Criminology - Criminology Law; Intelligence; Ethnography & Methodology; Research Methods - Soc. Policy; Criminal Justice; Organized Crime; Police; Crime and Crime Prevention; Criminal Behaviour and Forensic Psychology; Work & Organizational Psychology; Counseling; Psychological Disorders - Adult; Film Studies; Literary Genres; Forms of Crime; Strategic Studies; NYPD "Cop Doc" Dr. Dan Rudofossi delves into what it meant to live as a deep-cover operative through narratives with Joe Pistone, the FBI agent who spent six years living as Donnie Brasco as a member of the Bonanno crime family. When Operation Donnie Brasco abruptly closed, it was the longest and most successful infiltration of a Mafia family. Dr. Rudofossi underscores Pistone's genius to survive daily challenges of infiltration by using innovations in the ecological niches of Mafia violence. Donnie Brasco's "mental toughness," resilience, and ingenuity are understood through Rudofossi's signature eco-ethological existential analysis: Mapping out why and how trauma shaped functional dissociation as unconscious adaptation, the author's experience as a police psychologist--that is, a "cop doc"--helps decode the bigger picture of conflict, resolution, and compromise in the disparate worlds of policing and organized crime. This unique look at the costs and successes of tracking, infiltrating, arresting, and convicting those involved in organized crime is a groundbreaking read for law enforcement personnel, criminal justice, homeland security, law students, police psychologists, as well as anyone fascinated by the world of organized crime. Dr. Dan Rudofossi, as licensed psychologist and police sergeant (NYPD Ret.), is an active police surgeon for Amtrak Police --FOP NY. Dr. Rudofossi's guides range from assessing and treating complex PTSD, to terrorism's impact, to working with mentally ill persons on the street. Dr. Rudofossi's extensive experience as a professor and clinician segues into his professional forums on Police and Public Safety Complex PTSD, Grief and Dissociative Disorders, as his integrative therapeutic approach -- the Eco-Ethological Existential Analytic Method -- is gaining acceptance by universities, police departments, and clinicians. He is the only Cop Doc to open the vista he forged with FBI Special Agent Joe D. Pistone, which you have in your hands. |
