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This exciting and original collection explores Antonino Ferro's Post-Bionian Field Theory, expanding upon the analytic work of Wilfred Bion to focus on the inter-subjective development of psychic regulatory processes.
List of contents
1. The Transformational Vision of Antonino Ferro 2. The Logic of the Field 3. Post-Bionian Field Theory: An Illustration 4. Dreaming Upstream: Pictograms and the Field 5. An Invitation to Think: Trauma, Aporia and the Intersubjective Field – A Clinical Example 6. The Hallucinated Field 7. E Pluribus Unum: Origins of the Analytic Field 8. Field Theory and Child Work: Playing on Separate and Overlapping Fields 9. Coda: The Field of the Future, the Future of the Field
About the author
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.
Summary
This exciting and original collection explores Antonino Ferro’s Post-Bionian Field Theory, expanding upon the analytic work of Wilfred Bion to focus on the inter-subjective development of psychic regulatory processes.
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'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
