Covert Operations Unveiling Organized Crime - Using Operation Donnie Brasco to Understand the Complex Trauma of Deep Cover

New York Police Department "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 s