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In the following clinical section, Riccardo Lombardi presents three psychoanalytic hours, filling in much of his own working process. The hours are followed by three brief commentaries. Each discussant was asked to describe how he understands Dr. Lombardi to be working, and how he might approach the material differently.
The first commentary is by James Grotstein, who shares with Dr. Lombardi a commitment to Bion's teachings, but applies them somewhat differently. He is followed by Vincenzo Bonaminio, who knows Dr. Lombardi's work as a member of the same psychoanalytic society, but invokes a more “relational” Bion to explicate Dr. Lombardi's approach. Finally, Jay Greenberg examines his sense of Dr. Lombardi's use of countertransference, and how it might differ from his own. It is striking to me how each of the discussants appears to be grappling with similar aspects of Dr. Lombardi's way of working, although each expresses his experience of these uniquely, within his own psychoanalytic language and culture.
Dr. Lombardi then responds to his discussants.
While we believe the sessions, commentaries, and response are so clear that no further familiarity with Dr. Lombardi's approach to the analysis of the conflict between body and mind is necessary, interested readers may wish to have a look at his article, “ Catalyzing the Dialogue between the Body and the Mind in a Psychotic Analysand” ( Psychoanal. Q., 2003, 72: 1017-1041).
We are grateful to all participants for their clarity and their teaching, and in particular to Dr. Lombardi for allowing us this generous glimpse into his mind at work.