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Nino Ferro's La tecnica nella psicoanalisi infantile presents, for the first time in Italy, a psychoanalytic method that is thoroughly steeped in the clinical thought of Bion. Ferro's main concern, both in this volume and in the consulting room, is to reflect systematically on the use the patient is able to make of the analyst's interventions, both interpretative and otherwise. The various listening and communicative strategies, whether exemplified by drawings, games or dreams, are subjected to systematic study, where the focus is not so much on the “effects” of the analyst's interpretative activity “on” the patient(1), as on the “consequences” that this activity produces “in” the patient.
The author proposes a method in which the analyst gives an affective reading to the patient's response. This, in turn, envelops the analyst's mind, reorganizing it and continually measuring it against the level of real possibilities for use that the patient is able to develop at a given moment. This concept, which appeared in embryonic form in the Trattato di psicoanalisi in the chapter on Bion and the post-Kleinians, is here taken up and developed as a clinical method supported by the description of theoretical models and the