La riparazione – dentro e fuori la stanza di analisi. [Reparation – inside and outside the analytic room.] by Lupinacci M.A., Rossi N., Ruggiero I. (2024) (Eds.). Publisher:  Astrolabio. La riparazione – dentro e fuori la stanza di analisi, a cura di. M. A. Lupinacci, N. Rossi, and I. Ruggiero, 2024, Roma,  Astrolabio, €22, ISBN: 978-8834018866; Reparation – inside and outside the analytic room, edited by M. A. Lupinacci, N. Rossi, and I. Ruggiero, 2024, Roma:  Astrolabio, €22, ISBN: 978-8834018866

This book, edited by Maria Adelaide Lupinacci, Nicolino Rossi, and Irene Ruggiero, originally explores the topic of reparation, a classical concept in Kleinian psychoanalysis, yet hitherto less thoroughly explored than it would have deserved. Of course, as the authors tell us in the Introduction, it is only natural for certain models or authors to be seemingly overshadowed in favour of others who take the leading role at that time. The most important concepts are thus absorbed or, by disappearing, become the foundations upon which later psychoanalysis is built.

The book consists of three parts: the first examines the psychoanalytic concept of reparation, its historical place and its development in the individual setting; the second part delves into reparation in work with children, couples and therapeutic groups; the third part studies the usefulness of reparation in relation to social trauma, genocide, groups of women

victims of trauma and exploitation, and also in prisons, with refugees and even with respect to the environment and animals. In this regard, the volume reflects on the extent to which such forms of trauma may be repaired and what different types of reparation may be brought to light. The book therefore proves to be original, precisely because it explores a pivotal concept of psychoanalysis, seen in a more modern light and in settings other than the dual one, as well as through articulations in the social realm. In light of these reflections, it reaffirms the ethical value of psychoanalysis, as it restores the values of the human, not only in work with the patient, but also in reality and in life.

The first part is the preamble and central axis of the book, where the five opening chapters illustrate the history and foundations of the concept of reparation from its beginnings. Maria Adelaide Lupinacci, author of the first chapter, discusses the origin and fate of this concept as it correlates with the depressive position, and she narrates its vicissit