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A native Argentinian, Salomon Resnik moved to London in 1958, having studied medicine and psychiatry and having qualified as an analyst in Buenos Aires. Before moving back to Paris in 1971 (where he had already spent a year before going to London), he not only became acquainted with Melanie Klein's work (1882-1960), but also furthered his analytic competence with the best analysts of the time, including Bion and Rosenfeld. He had met them all in Geneva at the first IPA congress he attended in July 1955, and he did not miss the opportunity of actively participating at the 45th IPA congress in Berlin last July (52 years later!) — where I was very happy to see him.
Resnik is not only one of the most well-known, esteemed and active psychoanalysts on the international scene, but has also played a key role in the promotion of child and adult psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, and in the teaching of Klein and Bion, in Italy for the last 30 years. Travelling to Venice from Paris (as he originally did at the beginning of the 1970s and as he regularly keeps doing once a month), he had the chance to be invited by, and to work with, a whole series of departments of psychiatry (the Catholic University in Rome, for example, in the 1970s) and mental hospitals (Villa S. Giuliana, Verona, in the 1990s), and thus to contribute to the development of a new analytically-oriented psychiatric culture — and consequently to encourage a large group of colleagues of my generation to enter analytic training.