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Alessandra Ginzburg and Richard Carvalho have written an article that combines great intellectual refinement and clinical acumen. Through the reading of Valentina's story in the light of Armando Ferrari and Matte Blanco's theories, they offer a remarkably creative contemporary perspective on the clinical case treated by Ginzburg, treasuring concepts elaborated by two authors who are not yet sufficiently known and studied in the wide field of psychoanalysis. Incidentally, Alessandra Ginzburg and Richard Carvalho have dedicated part of their work to the study and dissemination of the theories of M. Blanco and A. Ferrari (Ginzburg & Lombardi 2007; Carvalho, Ginzburg et al. 2009; Carvalho 2012). Richard Carvalho combines their thinking with Jung's theory in a masterly way in other publications too, including the paper that was awarded the 2014 Michael Fordham Prize by this journal (Carvalho 2014).
Not surprisingly, the article opens with a quote from Philip Bromberg, the great and recently passed away contemporary master in the field of clinical dissociation and one of the few relational psychoanalysts who refer explicitly