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The papers we have put together in this issue represent the selection that our Editorial Board chose out of the many papers presented at the XXth IFPS Forum held in Florence on October 17–20, 2018. As one of us wrote in the Forum Report (Conci, 2109), the Forum comprised 7 central panels, 6 special activities, 1 group supervision, 16 parallel panels, and 58 individual papers, with altogether 54 speakers – and almost 300 participants from a wide variety of countries. We will present the papers we selected, dividing them into the following four groups: Buechler, Jaenicke, and Loiacono; Terranova, Weber, and Gondar; Vanni, Leskauskas, and Morra; Albertini and Panero, Grasso, and Rossi and Ferro – in as much as they can be assigned to a series of categories or topics. At the end of the sequence of papers, and as an example of the good synthesis of the clinical debate that took place in several sessions of the Forum, we are adding Michael Ermann’s paper “Dealing with ‘new fears.’”
We start with the paper “Fear in the transference and countertransference: An interpersonal perspective” by our New York City colleague Sandra Buechler. We greatly appreciate Sandra not only for her many precious books (the latest one being Psychoanalytic approaches to problems in living; Beuchler, 2019), but also for the passion, openness, and curiosity that have characterized her participation in our events for many years. In her paper she shows very clearly how “everything that happens in treatment is the product of two histories,” and how this represents the key message of the interpersonal analytic tradition. The key role played by Angst in her daseinsanalytic work with her patients is what Uta Jaenicke (Zurich) shows us in her paper “Angst as the essential element of concern in all our dreaming,” referring to the way in which Alice Holzhey-Kunz (e.g. Holzhey-Kunz, 2014) integrated Heidegger’s existential philosophy into her analytic approach. The concept of Angst is also central to the ide