Editorial

The BJP is delighted to be publishing a three-part series of articles on the innovative psychoanalytic work of Armando B. Ferrari, in this and the next two issues of the Journal. Ferrari's work had a special focus on the body, ‘not only as mind's first object, but … the object out of which mind originates’. Our series, which has been in development over the last three years, comprises two translations from work published in Italian in 2006, and a substantial introduction to Ferrari's thought by Richard Carvalho. Dr Carvalho has translated the article by Paulo Carignani which appears in this issue, and that by Fausta Romano, which will appear in print in February 2013. (All three pieces are published together on Early View this summer; Carvalho's introduction appears in print in November this year.) The three articles, taken together, allow readers to consider the implications for clinical practice of Ferrari's view, in Carignani's words, that: ‘The body is the source of the mind, that for which mind is responsible and to which it is answerable. It is not, of course, the body in an anatomical, medical sense, but the body as it is lived, which is dynamic and in constant transformation: the body which emanates emotions and sensations and by which, in turn, it itself is constantly changed.’ The BJP is very grateful to Richard Carvalho for his commitment to the project and his sensitive industry, as both translator and author; to Teresa Drew, our copy-editor and proofreader, who has worked with meticulous care to prepare the three articles for publication; and to Janine Sternberg and Hazel Robinson for their initial facilitation of the project.

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