The Secret of Faces: Commentary on Paper by Rachael Peltz

Giuseppe Civitarese, M.D., Ph.D., a member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Association and of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and is in private practice in Pavia, Italy. He has published several papers in the main international psychoanalytic journals. His books include The Intimate Room: Theory and Technique of the Analytic Field (The New Library of Psychoanalysis, Routledge, 2010); La Violenza Delle Emozioni: Bion e la Psicoanalisi Postbioniana (Raffaello Cortina, 2011; [The Violence of Emotions: Bion and Post-Bionian Psychoanalysis; The New Library of Psychoanalysis, Routledge, in press]); Perdere la Testa: Abiezione, Conflitto Estetico e Critica Psicoanalitica ( Clinamen, 2012; [Losing One's Head: Abjection, Aesthetic Conflict and Psychoanalytic Criticism]). He has also coedited L'ipocondria e il Dubbio: L'approccio Psicoanalitico (Franco Angeli, 2011; [Hypochondria and Doubt: The Psychoanalytic Approach]).

Antonino Ferro, M.D., is Training Analyst for the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, IPA and an APsaA member. He has published several books translated in many languages; the last are Mind Works and Avoiding Emotions, Living Emotions published by Routledge. In 2007 he was selected to be a recipient of the Mary S. Sigourney Award. He was Editor for Europe of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis until September 2008, elected (2006) member of CAPSA (Analytic Practice and Scientific Activities Committee), Member of the EPF Program Committee and Chair (2007) of Sponsoring Committee for the Turkish Provisional Society of Psychoanalysis. In 2009 he was elected Chair for Europe of the 47th IPA Congress in Mexico City. Since August 2011 he has been the Chair of the Appointments Committee of the IJP College.