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Abstract
The authors trace the history and development of the Bion field theory (BFT) model in Italy and around the world, and address the human and professional aspects that characterize the profession of psychoanalysis today.
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Antonino Ferro
Antonino Ferro is an Italian psychoanalyst who specializes in the work with children. He is strongly influenced by British psychoanalyst W.R. Bion and, together with Giuseppe Civitarese (also a frequent collaborator), has been instrumental in the development of post-Bionian field theory. Antonino Ferro works from Pavia and is a member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, of which he was the president from 2013 to 2017; he is also a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association. In 2007 Ferro was awarded the Sigourney Award.
Luca Nicoli
Luca Nicoli is an Italian psychoanalyst. The focuses of his attention are the outreach of analytic theory and technique, and the transformation of unrepresented states of the mind. Nicoli works in Modena, and is member of Italian Psychoanalytic Society. Together, the authors have published the New analyst’s guide to the galaxy (Karnac, 2017).