Origins and Destinies of the Bion Field Theory

Italian psychoanalyst who specializes in the work with children. He is strongly influenced by British psychoanalyst W.R. Bion and, together with Giuseppe Civitarese (also a frequent collaborator), has been instrumental in the development of post-Bionian field theory. Antonino Ferro works from Pavia and is a member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, of which he was the president from 2013 to 2017; he is also a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association. In 2007 Ferro was awarded the Sigourney Award.

Italian psychoanalyst. The focuses of his attention are the outreach of analytic theory and technique, and the transformation of unrepresented states of the mind. Nicoli works in Modena, and is member of Italian Psychoanalytic Society. Together, the authors have published the New analyst’s guide to the galaxy (Karnac, 2017).