This book provides a clear, thorough, and accessible introduction to the work of Antonino Ferro and draws on the clinical vignettes that punctuate his writings to show how Ferro has built on Bion’s revolutionary achievements to develop a distinctive, game-changing version of field theory in psychoanalysis.The book clarifies the phenomenological insight that the analyst and the patient together generate an ever-evolving, intersubjective field. Rather than the supposed psychology of ...

Psychoanalysis and Dreams explores some of the cornerstones of Antonino Ferro’s theoretical model but also attempts to extend the dreamlike boundaries of the model. Based on Bion’s theory of alpha function and the analytic field, Ferro has developed his own original theorization of transformations in dreams and of work in the analytic session as a waking dream.Clearly highlighted in the book is Ferro’s theory that transformation in dreams is the activity which is constantl...

Os temas mais atuais do campo da técnica psicanalítica, como aqueles da modalidade interpretativa, do fim de análise, da contribuição dos dados do paciente em cada estágio da análise, são aqui aprofundados através do uso do material clínico, o mais importante instrumento de comunicação capaz de evitar a dificuldade de entendimento. O onírico é considerado o momento básico do trabalho psicanalítico. O onírico vai além do sonho, está presente como contínua atividade da mente e que consente s...

Antonino Ferro investiga a gênese do sofrimento psíquico, evidenciando o trabalho "a quatro mãos" que analista e paciente constantemente desenvolvem juntos. Por meio de contínuas exemplificações clínicas, chama a atenção para o (não) funcionamento do analista na relação com o paciente e para os remédios que a cura psicanalítica oferece à dor psíquica. Especialmente, identifica a "narração transformadora" que acontece na sala de análise como um dos mais importantes fatores de cura. O autor,...

Is the analyst's mind a factor in the analytic process?In Mind Works Antonino Ferro uses clinical material such as detailed reports of sessions, together with client's analytic histories, to develop Bion’s original findings and illustrate complex concepts in the field of psychoanalytic technique. These concepts include:interpretive modalitiesthe end of analysispsychosomatic pathologiesnarcissism.Mind ...

In Torments of the Soul, Antonino Ferro revisits and expands on a theme that has long been at the heart of his work: the study of dreams during sleep and in the waking state, and the psychoanalytic narrative. Following Bion, he focuses on the importance of what he sees as the task of contemporary psychoanalysis for generating, containing and transforming previously unmanageable emotions with a clinical psychoanalytic context.Antonino Ferro explores the con...

Este texto desenvolve o conceito de "campo analítico", que tem suas origens no pensamento de Bion e dos Baranger, propondo sobre ele uma interpretação original. Assim, revisita algumas das temáticas de base da psicanálise, como os critérios de analisabilidade e fim da análise, as transformações que ocorrem durante as sessões, os impasses e as reações terapêuticas negativas, a sexualidade e o setting. São, então, expostos alguns dos temas específicos do autor: a exploração dos muitos modos ...

This book originates from a series of clinical supervisions that were held at the Sao Paulo Institute of Psychoanalysis by Antonino Ferro. Supervision in Psychoanalysis: The Sao Paulo Seminars reproduces the dialogues in the seminars that followed these supervisions in their entirety.The transcripts of eight supervised clinical sessions along with the author’s comments allows the reader to:see the different styles of the presenting analysts first handunders...

Illustrated with richly detailed clinical vignettes, Seeds of Illness, Seeds of Recovery offers a fascinating investigation into the origins, modes and treatment of psychical suffering.Antonino Ferro provides a clear account of his conception of the way the mind works, his interpretation of the analytic understanding of psychopathology, his reconceptualization of the therapeutic process, and implications for analytic technique derived from his view of the therapeutic actio...

In The Bi-Personal Field: Experiences in Child Analysis, Antonino Ferro devised a new model of the relationship between patient and analyst. In the Analyst's Consulting Room complements and develops this model by concentrating on adults.From the standpoint of the "analytic field", Antonino Ferro explores basic psychoanalytic concepts, such as criteria for analysability and ending the analysis, transformations that occur during the session, the impasse and negative ...

Is psychoanalysis a type of literature? Can telling 'stories' help us to get at the truth?Psychoanalysis as Therapy and Storytelling examines psychoanalysis from two perspectives - as a cure for psychic suffering, and as a series of stories told between patient and analyst.Antonino Ferro uses numerous clinical examples to investigate how narration and interpretation are interconnected in the analytic session. He draws on and develops Bion's theories to present a no...

In The Bi-Personal Field Antonino Ferro sets out his new conceptual system for analysis, considering not only the inner world of the patient but the continued interaction of that world with the inner world of the analyst.The book takes a fresh look at the main aspects of theory and technique in psychoanalysis in the light of Kleinian developments. It reflects the drastic changes due to the thinking of Bion. Illustrated with numerous detailed clinical examples, the author c...