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Anna Maria Loiacono, her team of the Florence Sullivan Institute, and the Executive Committee of International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies (IFPS) must be congratulated for having been able to bring together in Florence almost 300 analysts and candidates to participate in the XXth Forum of our Federation. The Executive Committee of the IFPS met on Tuesday October 16, and the Assembly of Delegates on Wednesday October 17, with the Forum inaugurated on the Wednesday afternoon and closed on Saturday evening, October 20. The Forum included the following: 7 central panels, 6 special activities, 1 group supervision, 16 parallel panels, 54 speakers, and 58 individual papers – with simultaneous translation in English and Spanish for the plenary panels. Sixteen candidates from all over the world ran for the third time of awarding the IFPS Benedetti–Conci Candidates Award. The Forum was held at the historic, a former fourteenth-century hospital with fifteenth-century frescos and a garden, a highly fascinating hotel and conference venue situated in Oltrarno – only a few minutes away from Palazzo Pitti and Ponte Vecchio. IFPS members had met for the first time in Florence in May 1994, with almost 500 participants discussing the topic “Psychoanalysis at the threshold of the XXI century” – as I wrote in my very first report on our IFPS Forums (Conci, 1994). Indeed, the political climate and our role as psychoanalysts have changed so much in the last 25 years as to suggest a title like the one of our XXth Forum: “New faces of fear. Ongoing transformations in our society and in psychoanalytic practice.”
The most important decisions taken by the Executive Committee and the Assembly of Delegates were the following. Two new groups were accepted as members societies of the Federation: the North-Hellenic Psychoanalytic Society (Thessaloniki, Greece) and the Associazione di Ricerche e Interventi sui Rapporti Interpersonali (Bari, Italy). The Sociedad Psicoanalitica de Paraná (Br