Marco Conci
Biographic Data
| ID | 5444385 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marco Conci |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marco |
| FAMILY NAME | Conci |
| SIGNATURE | CONCI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Biocon (Switzerland) |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4287-2344 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 63 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 63 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Psychoanalysis – Biological, neuropsychological, historical, therapeutic, and social aspects
Discussing with each other the contents of this issue brought to our minds some important thoughts of Freud and Bion, which have always been very important for us – for the ways in which we look at
Theoretical pluralism and personal resonance in analytic work with patients with pathological narcissism
Treating pathological narcissism is a very complex and challenging process, whose main ingredients the author tries to formulate and present in this paper. Not only theoretical pluralism, but also an interdisciplinary orientation are necessary ingredients of such a work, together with what Joseph Sandler called a good “private theory,” and an individualized therapeutic approach, as Gabbard and Crisp recommend. The author’s treatment concept is ex…
Psychoanalytic listening – Listening to the body, listening to our supervisees
Psychoanalytic listening, which is the peculiar nature of the kind of listening that should characterize the work of the psychoanalyst, is one of the main topics of Sigmund Freud's well-known and v
Report on the XXIIIrd IFPS Forum, “Psychoanalysis faces the challenges of postmodern society
The first thing that comes to my mind thinking back on the last Forum of the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies (IFPS) held in Bergamo six months ago is a sense of thankfulness fo
Our candidates and their papers – Past, present and future
At the last Forum of the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies (IFPS) held in October 2024 in Bergamo (Italy), under the title “Psychoanalysis faces the challenges of postmodern soci
Psychoanalysis
A crucial element and challenge of the psychoanalytic perspective developed and articulated in this journal since its foundation by Jan Stensson (1935–2024; see also Sjödin, 2024) in 1992 is its in
New frontiers in psychoanalysis
In 1954 the New York psychoanalyst Leo Stone (1904–1997) published an article by the title “The Widening Scope of Indications for Psychoanalysis” in which he wrote: In no other field, save surgery
From the legacy of our fathers to the new frontiers of our clinical work
Gaetano Benedetti (1920–2013), after graduating from medical school in his hometown Catania (Italy), emigrated to Zurich so he could specialize in psychiatry at the Burghölzli, the psychiatric hosp
Harry Stack Sullivan and Stephen Mitchell in Italy – A historical and a personal account
Having introduced readers to the history of the reception of psychoanalysis in Italy, the author reconstructs the history of the Italian reception of the work of Harry Stack Sullivan (1892–1949) and Stephen A. Mitchell (1946–2000). Sullivan’s work played a fundamental role in adding to the “new Italian psychiatry,” founded by Franco Basaglia (1824–1980), the psychodynamic dimension it lacked, creating a new convergence between the social and psyc…
War, death, safety, and love in life and psychoanalysis
In his reflection on the possible motivations for human beings to continue fighting wars, Sigmund Freud pessimistically regarded destruction as inherent in human nature. In “Why war” he wrote, “The
Psychoanalytic ego psychology
The best way to reconstruct the history of psychoanalytic ideas is to begin from the study not of theories, but of the various authors and their contexts. Important contributions to the study of the ego in Europe had already come from Ferenczi and Fenichel, well before Hartmann founded Ego Psychology (EP), which became mainstream in North America. In Europe, before World War II, significant contributions to what here is called “psychoanalytic ego…
From psychoanalytic ego psychology to relational psychoanalysis, a historical and clinical perspective
In July 2019 one of us (M.C.) published a book with the title Freud, Sullivan, Mitchell, Bion, and the multiple voices of international psychoanalysis, in which he connected the clinical approach o
Psychoanalytic theories and techniques
What a huge relief and what great joy for all of us to be able to meet again in person after the two and a half years that had elapsed since the XXIst International Federation of Psychoanalytic Soc
Psychoanalytic encounter
The multiple dimensions of our contemporary psychoanalytic discourse
Psychoanalysis, society, and politics
German themes in psychoanalysis. Part four
Presence of the body in psychoanalysis
In psychoanalysis, the psyche is conceived as an entity extended in space (Freud, 1940 [1938]). Apart from extending psychic activity beyond what is conscious, this spatial conception could of cour
Years with the International Forum of Psychoanalysis
Maria Pierri, Un enigma per il dottor Freud. La sfida della telepatia [An Enigma for Dr Freud
Report on the XXIst IFPS Forum, “Psychoanalytic encounter
"Report on the XXIst IFPS Forum, “Psychoanalytic encounter: Conflict and change”, Lisbon, February 5–8, 2020." International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 29(2), pp. 125–126
New faces of fear
The papers we have put together in this issue represent the selection that our Editorial Board chose out of the many papers presented at the XXth IFPS Forum held in Florence on October 17–20, 2018
Psychoanalysis 2020
The year 2020 will go down in human history as the year of the Coronavirus, whose multiple, severe, tragic, and revolutionary (hopefully not all bad) consequences we are not yet able – as I write t
Violence, terror and terrorism today
The IFPS Forum held in New York City in May 2016, about which one of us wrote a very detailed report (see Conci, 2017), was so successful that, for the first time in the history of our journal, we
Sándor Ferenczi and contemporary psychoanalysis
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The Young Freud's Letters to Eduard Silberstein—Early Traces of Some Psychoanalytic Concepts
Conci M. The Young Freud's letters to Eduard Silberstein-Early Traces of Some Psychoanalytic Concepts. Int Forum Psychoanal 1992;1:37-43. Stockholm. ISSN 0803-706X The author, after showing the importance of Freud's letters to E. Silberstein, in terms of retracing the roots of psychoanalysis to the young Freud's inner world, takes into consideration not only the relationship between the two members of the “Academia Castellana”, but also the young…
Psychoanalysis in italy
The aim of this paper is to make foreign colleagues familiar with the development and present the status of psychoanalysis in Italy. The author shows how, also in the case of Italy, true international exchange is the necessary condition for psychoanalysis to grow and reach a satisfying development. The contributions of such pioneers as R. Assagioli, E. Weiss, E. Gaddini, G. Benedetti and P.F. Galli show the direction we must take. Only by followi…
Why did freud choose medical school
After demonstrating the unsatisfactory nature of the reasons Freud gave us for his choice of medical school, the author shows how it is possible to throw new light on it on the basis of his letters to his adolescent friend Emil Fluss. This relationship played a crucial role in forcing Freud to come out of his isolation and the defensive dissection of his feelings that he used to practice, and thus experience an intimate relationship as a better s…
Psychiatry, psychoanalysis and sociology in the work of H.S. Sullivan
Conci, M. Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Sociology in the Work of H.S. Sullivan. Int Forum Psychoanal 1997;6: 127–135. Stockholm, ISSN 0803-706X. The author tries to illuminate H.S. Sullivan's complex professional identity. With E. Fromm he shared a basic humanistic orientation, and also the project of creating an interdisciplinary new science of man. This is the perspective he inherited from W.A. White, who tried to make psychoanalysis a major i…
Report on the VIII IFPS conference, Athens May 15–18, 1996
Reports and Brief Communications
Freud's Self-Analysis - An Interpersonally Grounded Process
On the basis of the assumption that the understanding of Freud's work can gain much from illuminating his own psychological development, the author tries to reconstruct the evolution of his self-analysis. Against the common view of placing it in the context of his relationship with Fliess, the author shows how it actually evolved out of a whole series of experiences and relationships. Freud's self-analysis was initially nourished by his study of …
Report on the XI IFPS Forum, New York
(2000). Report on the XI IFPS Forum, New York: Marriott Hotel, Brooklyn, May 4-7, 2000. International Forum of Psychoanalysis: Vol. 9, No. 3-4, pp. 263-266
Reports and Brief Communications Report on the XII IFPS Forum
Reports and Brief Communications Report on the XII IFPS Forum
Biographie de l'inconscient [Biography of the Unconscious]
Mind works. Technique and creativity in psychoanalysis
Bion, Rangell, and Haynal
(2009). Bion, Rangell, and Haynal: A pioneer and two protagonists of contemporary psychoanalysis – a selection of papers of the Bion 2008 Conference and two interviews. International Forum of Psychoanalysis: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 65-70
Report from the XVth IFPS Forum, Santiago de Chile, October 2008
An advantage of globalisation
Since 1999, the author has been working as a psychoanalyst in Munich, Germany, in the context of the German National Health Service, which covers psychoanalytic psychotherapy of up to 300 sessions with a frequency of up to three times a week. He has mostly been working with Italian patients in their common mother language. In other words, globalisation has made it possible to help patients heal the wounds of their old Italian self, develop a new …
Global connections and international contacts – Papers from the XVth Forum of the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies
(2010). Global connections and international contacts – Papers from the XVth Forum of the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies. International Forum of Psychoanalysis: Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 67-70
Wilfred Bion's identity as a psychoanalyst in the light of his letters (1939–1951) to his first analyst, John Rickman, and of their multidimensional relationship – Our trainings (and our lives), our l…
Report from the XVIth IFP Forum, Athens, October 2010
Twenty productive years with the International Forum of Psychoanalysis
In the first editorial of this journal, the Editor-in Chief wrote:The psychoanalytic method, the organized meeting of analyst and analysand several times a week over a long period of time and for a
Marco Conci and Ingrid Erhardt interview Horst Kächele
I had the good luck to meet Horst Kachele for the first time more than 20 years ago, in May 1990, in Venice, in the context of the very first conference held in Italy on psychotherapy research. I w
The girl who committed hara-kiri and other clinical and historical essays
Report on the XVIIth IFPS Forum, “Working with Conflict and Alienation,” Mexico City, October 2012 – short version
(2013). Report on the XVIIth IFPS FORUM, “Working with Conflict and Alienation,” Mexico City, October 2012 – short version. International Forum of Psychoanalysis: Vol. 22, GERMAN THEMES IN PSYCHOANALYSIS. PART ONE., pp. 244-246
Sullivan and the intersubjective perspective
The author sees H.S. Sullivan's (1892–1949) interpersonal theory as the best theoretical framework for the contemporary intersubjective perspective in psychoanalysis and presents the former in its pluridimensional articulation. After having extended Freud's therapeutic approach to psychotic patients, Sullivan developed both a developmental psychology and a psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic technique based on the “interpersonal field” as the ba…
German themes in psychoanalysis. Part one
Gaetano Benedetti, Johannes Cremerius, the Milan ASP, and the future of the IFPS
The aim of this paper is to show how the life, personality, and scientific work of Gaetano Benedetti and Johannes Cremerius shaped the original form and structure of the Milan Associazione di Studi Psicoanalitici (ASP), which they founded together with their pupils in 1971 and which became a member society of the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies (IFPS) in 1989. The training analysis was substituted by a personal analysis to be…
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