Main description:

* Uses a famous case study to delve into understanding what it means to be assigned deep cover, from both policing and mental health perspectives
* Employs eco-ethological existential analysis to look at the dynamics of why and how trauma influences the shaping of an officer's cognitions, behaviors, feelings, and meaningfulness
* Presents a unique, personal look at the details of Joe Pistone's infiltration into the Mafia in Operation Donnie Brasco

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Foreword by Special Agent, F.B.I. Ret. Joseph Dominick Pistone

Preface by 1St Grade, Detective, NYPD, Tommy Dades

Introduction

Chapter 1: Toward Understanding Process, Ingenuity and Stealth-Under Deep Cover.

Chapter 2: Integrity and Autonomy - Basics of Becoming Donnie Brasco

Chapter 3: Patronizing --Police, Mafia, and Family: Eco-Ethological Triangulation

Chapter 4: Boundaries in Mafia Culture: Totem and Taboos

Chapter 5: Active Analysis and Adaptive Functional Dissociation: Intuitive Ingenuity.

Chapter 6: Dialogue, Insight and Discovery - A Canopy of Shadows and Hues

Chapter 7: Disenfranchised Losses & Complex PTSD: Eco-Ethological Existential Analysis

Epilogue