Antonino Ferro
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3846571 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Antonino Ferro |
| NOMBRES | Antonino |
| APELLIDO | Ferro |
| FIRMA | FERRO A |
| AFILIACIONES | His Majesty's Treasury |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 197 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Remembering Dana Birksted-Breen
Origins and destinies of the Bion field theory
The authors trace the history and development of the Bion field theory (BFT) model in Italy and around the world, and address the human and professional aspects that characterize the profession of psychoanalysis today
Like a fish in water
In this article, the author offers his reflections on the potential benefit of catastrophic change at various levels, and by so doing paves the way toward the process of mourning past certainties and acceptance of our new psychoanalytic reality. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
Negative capabilities, play and the negative
A Discussion of “The Analyst’s Necessary Nonsovereignty and the Generative Power of the Negative”
He draws inspiration from the many original and often unexpected aspects of the paper to reflect upon new developments in Bion Field Theory. In order to facilitate theoretical discussion, like Jade McGleughlin, the author makes reference to the world of art and literature. Particular attention is given to the theme of the creative potential of the unknown and the ongoing challenge faced by analysts to open themselves to the new and as yet unthoug…
Mentalization as alphabetization of the emotions
Mentalization defines the capacity to attribute mental states such as desires and beliefs to others and to understand that these can differ from our own. Such a capacity can be compromised in several psychiatric conditions and is the main target of many types of psychotherapy. Here we propose a theoretic model in which mentalization is achieved through a process we have termed “alphabetization” of the emotions. In this model, the patient–analyst …
Personnages du champ analytique et action thérapeutique
Dans cet article, l'auteur présente son modèle post-bionien, avec pour objectif le développement d'outils à penser aptes à ressentir plutôt que de traquer les contenus clivés ou refoulés. Sont mis en évidence les facteurs thérapeutiques qui autorisent le renforcement progressif de la fonction de contenant et de ce qui relève de l'onirique. Un processus rendu possible par le travail du champ, où pullulent les éléments inconscients ou non mentalisé…
Commentary on Levy and Finnegan
Rêve et transformations oniriques
Les nouvelles perspectives apportées aux recherches contemporaines sur la fonction du rêver par l'œuvre de Bion sont essentielles : ainsi l'importance des variables de « la pensée onirique de l'état de veille », la création des pictogrammes à partir des impressions sensorielles, au moyen des transformations des éléments β (vécus sensoriels bruts) en éléments α grâce à la fonction α. Récits de rêves et dérivés narratifs se développent en diverses …
Torments of the Soul
In Torments of the Soul, Antonino Ferro revisits and expands on a theme that has long been at the heart of his work: the study of dreams during sleep and in the waking state, and the psychoanalytic narrative. Following Bion, he focuses on the importance of what he sees as the task of contemporary psychoanalysis for generating, containing and transforming previously unmanageable emotions with a clinical psychoanalytic context. Antonino Ferro explo…
Torments of the Soul
Analytic Field and Its Transformations
Bion and Thinking
Immaginando [Imagining]
The Work of Confluence
Transformations in dreaming and characters in the psychoanalytic field
Having reviewed certain similarities and differences between the various psychoanalytic models (historical reconstruction/development of the container and of the mind's metabolic and transformational function; the significance to be attributed to dream-type material; reality gradients of narrations; tolerability of truth/lies as polar opposites; and the form in which characters are understood in a psychoanalytic session), the author uses clinical…
The analytic field
“Objects” and “characters” in psychoanalytical texts/dialogues
The authors propose the use of the narratological category of “character” in psychoanalysis. They consider this notion useful in studying clinical material because it may help in making clearer the distinction between the clinical development of dialogue and the theoretical options that can be used to conceptualize the interaction.In order to facilitate theoretical comparison and effective technical integration, the authors outline three main sch…
The Vancouver Interview
by Franco Borgogno Borla , Rome , 2007 ; 71 pp; €12 This delightful small book begins with its cover illustration by Claudia Melotti. This shows a bear, wearing the glasses of age and experience, t
A Beam of Intense Darkness
Mind works
Countertransference and the characters of the psychoanalytic session
The authors address the transference-countertransference axis as a central dimension of psychoanalytic work and apply the concept of the “analytic field” to describe this area. Initially understood as a locus wherein crossed resistances of the patient-analyst encounter are reduced by the analyst's capacity for “second-thought” interpretations, the field today connotes a meeting point of the multiple potentialities of analyst and patient and of th…
Trauma, Reverie, and The Field
The author uses a clinical vignette to demonstrate complex concepts at work--concepts such as those derived from a productive grafting of Bion's thinking onto the concept of the psychoanalytic field. The underlying theory is narrated by the use of images, which the author finds to be the most appropriate way to demonstrate this theory at work--a theory of the mind based on the concept of digestibility of emotions, as well as the progressive intro…
Unity of Analysis
When comparing child analysis with that of grown-ups, we are confronted with a substantial unity of psychoanalytic method, beyond the apparent differences. The more we consider the analysis as a here-and-now interaction between analyst and patient with transformative potential, the more age-dependent differences become blurred, and the specificity of a particular analytic couple acquires more significance. At the same time, what seems to be all t…
Clinical implications of Bion’s thought
The author focuses on some clinical implications of Bion's thought. He takes into particular consideration the great technical importance of Bion's concept of 'waking dream thought'. He also proposes some developments of Bion's thought. Psychoanalytic exercises like those suggested by Bion are presented along with clinical material in order to render the author's theoretical-technical ideas as clear as possible. Furthermore, he deals with the fer…
Transformations in dreaming and characters in the psychoanalytic field
Having reviewed certain similarities and differences between the various psychoanalytic models (historical reconstruction/development of the container and of the mind's metabolic and transformational function; the significance to be attributed to dream-type material; reality gradients of narrations; tolerability of truth/lies as polar opposites; and the form in which characters are understood in a psychoanalytic session), the author uses clinical…
Some implications of Bion's thought
Following up Bion's idea that dreaming is a continuous process that takes place in waking life as well as in sleep, the author develops its theoretical and technical implications. He describes the narrative derivatives of waking dream thought as the means, or interface, whereby access may be had, albeit indirectly, to the constantly forming sequences of alpha‐elements. Examples of the formation of these sequences out of childhood memories, presen…
Clinical implications of Bion’s thought
The author focuses on some clinical implications of Bion's thought. He takes into particular consideration the great technical importance of Bion's concept of 'waking dream thought'. He also proposes some developments of Bion's thought. Psychoanalytic exercises like those suggested by Bion are presented along with clinical material in order to render the author's theoretical-technical ideas as clear as possible. Furthermore, he deals with the fer…
The Analyst at Work
Marcella
The author discusses an analytic case in which it was necessary to first address the patient's need for containment of her protoemotions--her sensoriality--before the analysis could proceed along more standard lines, with interpretation of the transference, work on displacement and aspects of her childhood history, and so forth. Prior to treatment, the patient had resorted to a sort of affective autism in order not to experience dangerously overw…
Superego Transformations through the Analyst’s Capacity for Reverie
The author discusses the application of certain Kleinian and Bionian principles to psychoanalytic work with patients who suffer from symptoms arising out of pathological superego functioning. Clinical vignettes are presented to demonstrate how the analyst's willingness to employ reverie, and to move from conviction-based interpretations to more open and tentative ones, can help such patients to change maladaptive behavioral patterns that may have…
The Psychoanalyst as Individual
The authors discuss the position of the analyst as an individual and the idea that his mental functioning can be seen as a meaningful element of the analytic field. The first part of the article shows the importance of the analyst's self-analysis, with particular attention to periods when the analyst is facing a difficult time, self-analysis in supervision, and the exploration of transgenerational influences. The authors go on to discuss the many…
The Work of Confluence
Trauma, Reverie, and The Field
The author uses a clinical vignette to demonstrate complex concepts at work--concepts such as those derived from a productive grafting of Bion's thinking onto the concept of the psychoanalytic field. The underlying theory is narrated by the use of images, which the author finds to be the most appropriate way to demonstrate this theory at work--a theory of the mind based on the concept of digestibility of emotions, as well as the progressive intro…
Unity of Analysis
When comparing child analysis with that of grown-ups, we are confronted with a substantial unity of psychoanalytic method, beyond the apparent differences. The more we consider the analysis as a here-and-now interaction between analyst and patient with transformative potential, the more age-dependent differences become blurred, and the specificity of a particular analytic couple acquires more significance. At the same time, what seems to be all t…
Which Reality in the Psychoanalytic Session
The author discusses how the analyst's theory influences what happens in the psychoanalytic session, and, in particular, how it determines which of several possible realities become the focus of attention. An overview of Bionian thought and how it informs the author's way of working is provided. In elaborating his use of the narrative level in the session and other key concepts, the author presents three brief clinical vignettes
Some Implications of Bion's Thought
Following up Bion's idea that dreaming is a continuous process that takes place in waking life as well as in sleep, the author develops its theoretical and technical implications. He describes the narrative derivatives of waking dream thought as the means, or interface, whereby access may be had, albeit indirectly, to the constantly forming sequences of alpha-elements. Examples of the formation of these sequences out of childhood memories, presen…
Bion and Thinking
A Beam of Intense Darkness
Listening, Interpreting and Psychic Change in the Analytic Dialogue
In psychoanalytical practice important, but less studied, transformative functions are performed by verbal comments which do not correspond to the classic model of mutative interpretations proposed by Strachey. The Authors describe some characteristics of such clinical situations, without coming into the better known categories of variations in technique. Such enunciations seem not to have a “strong”, (already clearly defined) meaning in the mind…
The bi-personal field
La rêverie, thérapeute de la psyché
L’auteur réfléchit sur le processus de développement du psychisme en rapport avec l’environnement et la réponse relationnelle dans lesquels il se développe ; il présente ses considérations théoriques personnelles sur la culture de la rêverie et de l’évacuation psychique en cure psychanalytique. Les considérations de l’auteur reprennent les théories proposées dans les écrits de Bion ; elles analysent les phénomènes de représentation de l’identific…
Narrative Derivatives of Alpha Elements
The author considers both the psychoanalytic field and the ways in which the characters of a psychoanalytic session can be understood. He then develops one of Bion's ideas, the dream in the waking state, by isolating the derivatives of such dreams or rather the alpha elements they consist of. The author implies a theory of technique which takes account of all the signals "the bi-personal field" gives the analyst about the functioning of the analy…
Superego Transformations through the Analyst’s Capacity for Reverie
The author discusses the application of certain Kleinian and Bionian principles to psychoanalytic work with patients who suffer from symptoms arising out of pathological superego functioning. Clinical vignettes are presented to demonstrate how the analyst's willingness to employ reverie, and to move from conviction-based interpretations to more open and tentative ones, can help such patients to change maladaptive behavioral patterns that may have…
Some Implications of Bion's Thought
Following up Bion's idea that dreaming is a continuous process that takes place in waking life as well as in sleep, the author develops its theoretical and technical implications. He describes the narrative derivatives of waking dream thought as the means, or interface, whereby access may be had, albeit indirectly, to the constantly forming sequences of alpha-elements. Examples of the formation of these sequences out of childhood memories, presen…
Some implications of Bion's thought
Following up Bion's idea that dreaming is a continuous process that takes place in waking life as well as in sleep, the author develops its theoretical and technical implications. He describes the narrative derivatives of waking dream thought as the means, or interface, whereby access may be had, albeit indirectly, to the constantly forming sequences of alpha‐elements. Examples of the formation of these sequences out of childhood memories, presen…
In the analyst's consulting room
Commentary on Ilany Kogan’s “On Being a Dead, Beloved Child”
(2003). Commentary on Ilany Kogan’s “On Being a Dead, Beloved Child”. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly: Vol. 72, No. 3, pp. 777-783
Marcella
The author discusses an analytic case in which it was necessary to first address the patient's need for containment of her protoemotions--her sensoriality--before the analysis could proceed along more standard lines, with interpretation of the transference, work on displacement and aspects of her childhood history, and so forth. Prior to treatment, the patient had resorted to a sort of affective autism in order not to experience dangerously overw…
The Psychoanalyst as Individual
The authors discuss the position of the analyst as an individual and the idea that his mental functioning can be seen as a meaningful element of the analytic field. The first part of the article shows the importance of the analyst's self-analysis, with particular attention to periods when the analyst is facing a difficult time, self-analysis in supervision, and the exploration of transgenerational influences. The authors go on to discuss the many…
Which Reality in the Psychoanalytic Session
The author discusses how the analyst's theory influences what happens in the psychoanalytic session, and, in particular, how it determines which of several possible realities become the focus of attention. An overview of Bionian thought and how it informs the author's way of working is provided. In elaborating his use of the narrative level in the session and other key concepts, the author presents three brief clinical vignettes
Four sessions with Lisa
The Analyst at Work
Trauma, Reverie, and The Field
The author uses a clinical vignette to demonstrate complex concepts at work--concepts such as those derived from a productive grafting of Bion's thinking onto the concept of the psychoanalytic field. The underlying theory is narrated by the use of images, which the author finds to be the most appropriate way to demonstrate this theory at work--a theory of the mind based on the concept of digestibility of emotions, as well as the progressive intro…
Unity of Analysis
When comparing child analysis with that of grown-ups, we are confronted with a substantial unity of psychoanalytic method, beyond the apparent differences. The more we consider the analysis as a here-and-now interaction between analyst and patient with transformative potential, the more age-dependent differences become blurred, and the specificity of a particular analytic couple acquires more significance. At the same time, what seems to be all t…
Clinical implications of Bion’s thought
The author focuses on some clinical implications of Bion's thought. He takes into particular consideration the great technical importance of Bion's concept of 'waking dream thought'. He also proposes some developments of Bion's thought. Psychoanalytic exercises like those suggested by Bion are presented along with clinical material in order to render the author's theoretical-technical ideas as clear as possible. Furthermore, he deals with the fer…
“Objects” and “characters” in psychoanalytical texts/dialogues
The authors propose the use of the narratological category of “character” in psychoanalysis. They consider this notion useful in studying clinical material because it may help in making clearer the distinction between the clinical development of dialogue and the theoretical options that can be used to conceptualize the interaction.In order to facilitate theoretical comparison and effective technical integration, the authors outline three main sch…
The Vancouver Interview
by Franco Borgogno Borla , Rome , 2007 ; 71 pp; €12 This delightful small book begins with its cover illustration by Claudia Melotti. This shows a bear, wearing the glasses of age and experience, t
A Beam of Intense Darkness
Mind works
Countertransference and the characters of the psychoanalytic session
The authors address the transference-countertransference axis as a central dimension of psychoanalytic work and apply the concept of the “analytic field” to describe this area. Initially understood as a locus wherein crossed resistances of the patient-analyst encounter are reduced by the analyst's capacity for “second-thought” interpretations, the field today connotes a meeting point of the multiple potentialities of analyst and patient and of th…
Transformations in dreaming and characters in the psychoanalytic field
Having reviewed certain similarities and differences between the various psychoanalytic models (historical reconstruction/development of the container and of the mind's metabolic and transformational function; the significance to be attributed to dream-type material; reality gradients of narrations; tolerability of truth/lies as polar opposites; and the form in which characters are understood in a psychoanalytic session), the author uses clinical…
The analytic field
The Work of Confluence
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