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In this slim, highly readable volume, Franco Borgogno—who was a recipient of The Sigourney Award in 2010 and along with Alberto Luchetti and Luisa Marino Coe, was awarded the Book Prize from the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis in 20171—takes the reader on a personal journey of remembrance, inviting us to accompany him as he traverses the arc of his professional life. Currently at the University of Turin and the Training and Supervising Analyst at the
Borgogno, F., Luchetti, A., & Coe, L. M., eds. . Reading Italian Psychoanalysis. London: Routledge.
Italian Psychoanalytical Society, Borgogno writes about how he evolves from journeyman psychotherapist to acclaimed, highly sought after psychoanalyst and teacher to widely published author of scholarly books and articles.
In One Life Heals Another Borgogno shares: his personal and professional sources of inspiration; the analysts of past generations who informed his own creative synthesis of analytic theory and concepts; and the beloved and admired teachers who challenged and nurtured him. Borgogno, however, saves his greatest appreciation for his patients, who he credits with helping him become “what today we call a ‘ground analyst’…one who concentrates instead on grasping the basic essentials, tries to communicate with simplicity, honesty, and humanity in an everyday language without complexity” (p.1402). One of this book’s special gifts is Borgogno’s generous sharing of clinical vignettes, which span from his years as a neophyte psychotherapist to his later, mature arrival as a senior, highly experienced psychoanalyst. In the process of sharing these vignettes, he invites the reader into the continual, neverending process of becoming a psychoanalyst.
This process for Borgogno (and by implication, for us all) required the assistance of both his patients and his colleagues as he developed a “mutual sympathy…in this way healing my youthful and omnipotent pretensions as a novice and relieving me of those dou