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Borgogno, F. The girl who committed hara-kiri and other clinical and historical essays. Karnac: London, 2012. Pp. XXII +402. £56.95 [Original Italian edition, 2011].
Franco Borgogno joined our Editorial Board as Associate Editor with volume 17 in 2008. Carlo Bonomi, with whom he had been working for many years on the revisitation of Sándor Ferenczi's legacy (see, for example, Bonomi & Borgogno, 2001) had
proposed his name to Christer Sjödin and to me (we had edited the International Forum of Psychoanalysis [IFP] together since the summer of 2007), and we were happy to accept his proposal. We knew that Borgogno (a psychologist and university professor) had trained in Milan together with Antonino Ferro (now President of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society) and Stefano Bolognini (now President of the International Psychoanalytic Association) – and that he was also a member of the Editorial Board of many Italian, English, and South American journals.
With Ferro, Borgogno shared not only the fact of working with both children and adults, but also the work of producing the journal Quaderni di psicoterapia infantile. With Bolognini, he shared an interest in Ferenczi, in American psychoanalysis, and in themes such as empathy (see Bolognini, 2002). Not only had they all become training analysts of the Italian Society before reaching the age of 50, but they had also contributed (together with Vincenzo Bonaminio, Anna Nicolò, Anna Ferruta, Franco De Masi, and others) to the establishment of Italian psychoanalysis on the international level. I had dealt with the background and genesis of such an important phenomenon (which I connected with a series of events such as, for example, Ferro's nomination as Editor for Europe of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis in 2003), in the Editorial of issue No. 2/2008, under the title Italian themes in psychoanalysis – international dialogue and psychoanalytic identity. In fact, the personal contribution behind such a development by o