1st Edition
The Post-Bionian Field Theory of Antonino Ferro Theoretical Analysis and Clinical Application
1 The Transformational Vision of Antonino Ferro
Howard B. Levine
2 The Logic of the Field
Howard B. Levine
3 Post-Bionian Field Theory: An Illustration
Howard B. Levine
4 Dreaming Upstream: Pictograms and the Field
Dolan Power
5 An Invitation to Think: Trauma, Aporia and the Intersubjective Field – A Clinical Example
David G. Power
6 The Hallucinated Field
Rodrigo Barahona
7 E Pluribus Unum: Origins of the Analytic Field
Lawrence J. Brown
8 Field Theory and Child Work: Playing on Separate and Overlapping Fields
Allen Palmer
9 Coda: the Field of the Future, the Future of the Field
Howard B. Levine
Biography
Howard B. Levine is a member of APSA, PINE, the Contemporary Freudian Society, NYU Post-Doc’s Contemporary Freudian Track, and is in private practice in Brookline, Massachusetts. He is the author of Transformations de l’Irreprésentable, Editor-in-Chief of The Routledge Wilfred R. Bion Studies Book Series and a Director and founding member of the Boston Group for Psychoanalytic Studies.
'Howard Levine and his Boston Group were among the first outside of Italy to become interested in the study of post-Bionian Field Theory. Marked by innovative theoretical elaborations and abundant clinical examples, this book is an important testimony to their many fruitful exchanges with Antonino Ferro and the Pavia School. I warmly recommend it to psychotherapists and psychoanalysts at all levels, who are in search of new and versatile working tools to devote to the treatment of psychic suffering.'
– Giuseppe Civitarese, author of Sublime Subjects: Aesthetic Experience and Intersubjectivity in Psychoanalysis (Routledge)
'Ferro’s integration of Baranger’s Field Theory, Bion’s theory of transformations and his own concept of co-narratives has had a profound effect on psychoanalysis worldwide. This book shows experienced analysts at work offering readers a clear history, conceptual description, elaboration and clinical application of Ferro’s seminal ideas, as it plunges us into zones that are the core of our analytic interactions and psychic life. Levine and the other authors’ success in integrating fundamental European, American and South American concepts in their approach makes this book truly unique.'
– Rudi Vermote, author of Reading Bion (Routledge), training and supervising analyst, Belgian Psychoanalytic Society
