List of Contributors

FRANCESCO BISAGNI (Italy) is a psychiatrist who trained as a Jungian analyst in Italy and also with the supervision of Michael Fordham and Rosemary Gordon in London. He completed his training as a child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapist according to the Tavistock Model at the Italian Association of Child Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (AIPPI). He is currently a training and supervising analyst of the Society of Analytical Psychology (SAP) and a psychoanalyst of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP) in the US. He is co-founder, training and supervising analyst and currently Chair of the Centre for the Studies in Contemporary Psychoanalyses (CSPC) in Milan, where he lives and practises privately as a child and adult analyst and as a seminar leader. He has taught and lectured internationally extensively over the years and he is author, co-author and editor of many publications, including books and articles published in Italy and in the major analytic journals, such as the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, the Journal of Analytical Psychology, Analytische Psychologie, Cahiers Jungiens de Psychanalyse, Revue de Psychologie Analytique and the Journal of Child Psychotherapy. His latest book is Obsessions: the Twisted Cruelty, published by Karnac in 2017. Email:

B. WILLIAM BRENNAN, Th.M., M.A., (USA) is a psychoanalyst in independent practice in Providence, Rhode Island. His research and writing on psychoanalytic history have focused on the legacy of Sándor Ferenczi. He is co-chair of the History of Psychoanalysis Committee of the International Forum of Psychoanalytic Education and is a member of the Art and Psyche Working Group. Email:

ALESSANDRA CAVALLI, Ph.D., (UK) was a child and adult analyst in private practice, and a training and supervising analyst at the Society of Analytical Psychology. She was visiting lecturer at the Tavistock Clinic in London and she supervised t