1st Edition
Psychoanalytic Practice Today A Post-Bionian Introduction to Psychopathology, Affect and Emotions
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Part I: Psychopathologies
1 Anorexias and dyschronias Antonino Ferro
2 Phobia Maurizio Collovà
3 Obsessionality. Algorithms, compulsions, rituals, and obsessions Giovanni Foresti and Mauro Manica
4 Depression: Geographies and Histories Elena Molinari
5 Borderline Violet Pietrantonio
6 Paranoias Fulvio Mazzacane
7 Psychosis. Listening to psychosis in a state of profound ignorance Mauro Manica
Part II: Emotions and Feelings
8 Abandonment Antonino Ferro
9 On the feeling of exclusion Maurizio Collovà
10 Rage and Shame Giuseppe Civitarese 1
1 Jealousy: the treachery of a forgotten sister Violet Pietrantonio
12 Betrayals. Psychoanalytic pathways in the works of James Joyce Fulvio Mazzacane
13 Surprise Elena Molinari
14 Contempt in Clinical Practice Luca Nicoli
15 Sadness: Sadness between phenomenology and psychoanalysis: from nameless sadness to sadness in O Mauro Manica
Index
Biography
Antonino Ferro is a training analyst in the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytical Association. He is the current president of Pavia’s Psychoanalytic Centre. He received the Sigourney Award in 2007.
"This volume, richly illustrated with clinical examples, explores the curative power of the intersubjective analytic encounter from the vertex of post-Bionian field theory. In so doing, it offers psychoanalysts of all levels of experience a pragmatic, clinical metapsychology of psychic process and the analytic encounter and demonstrates the centrality of transformations in dreaming and the value of the oneiric model of the mind." - Howard B. Levine, MD, Editor-in-Chief, The Routledge Wilfred Bion Studies Book Series
"Antonino Ferro, one of the most brilliant psychoanalytic thinkers of his time brings us directly into the heart of the psychoanalytic encounter, this time accompanied by a stellar list of contributors. Theoretically astute and clinically inspiring, Psychoanalytic Practice offers the reader a vivid and clear understanding of innovative Italian Psychoanalysis inspired by the later work of Bion on dreaming, reverie, and affect. This joins the ranks of Ferro’s most important contributions." - Galit Atlas, Ph.D, NYU Postdoctoral program for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Author of The Enigma of Desire: Sex, Longing and Belonging in Psychoanalysis
