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Last June, at Menaggio, in the splendid setting of the Villa Vigoni, headquarters of the Italo-German Cultural Association, a meeting took place between Italian and German psychoanalysts with the aim of exchanging experiences and information about the clinical aspects and theoretical and methodological premises underlying psychoanalytical practice. The idea of the meeting arose as a result of the contacts between two of our German colleagues based in Ulm, Thomä and Kächele, and S. Freni, who was responsible for the Italian edition of their book Trattato di terapia psicoanalitica, the fruit of twenty years' work. The Centro Psicoanalitico Milanese with its staff organized the event admirably; special thanks are due to Franco Ciprandi and Giuseppe Fiorentini and to the staff of the Villa Vigoni.
For the participants in the conference, the attraction lay in the chance it gave them to learn something more about a cultural environment with which Italian analysts are less familiar, having paid more attention to other schools of thought. So there was a good