{"product_id":"the-postbionian-field-theory-of-antonino-ferro-9780367766733","title":"The PostBionian Field Theory of Antonino Ferro","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis exciting and original collection explores Antonino Ferro's post-Bionian Field Theory, expanding upon the analytic work of Wilfred Bion to focus on the intersubjective development of psychic regulatory processes. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten by members of the Boston Group for Psychoanalytic Studies who have maintained a close and fruitful collaboration with Ferro and his colleagues, the book centers on understanding, engaging and treating primitive mental states. Ferro''s Field Theory operationalizes Bion's concept of an analyst who is not the repository of the truth', but is instead one who has the capacity to listen, to dwell in doubt, to utilize reverie, humor and play, and facilitate the transformation of previously unthinkable aspects of the patient's experience into articulatable mental elements such as pictorial images, thoughts and dreams. Ferro's contributions and their analysis are especially relevant to working with primitive character disorders, the difficulties of \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Howard Levine and his Boston group were among the first outside of Italy to become interested in the study of post-Bionian Field Theory. Marked by innovative theoretical elaborations and abundant clinical examples, this book is an important testimony to their many fruitful exchanges with Antonino Ferro and the Pavia school. I warmly recommend it to psychotherapists and psychoanalysts at all levels, who are in search of new and versatile working tools to devote to the treatment of psychic suffering.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e – \u003cem\u003eGiuseppe Civitarese, author of \u003c\/em\u003eSublime Subjects: Aesthetic Experience and Intersubjectivity in Psychoanalysis \u003cem\u003e(Routledge).\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003eFerro’s integration of Baranger’s field theory, Bion’s theory of transformations and his own concept of co-narratives has had a profound effect on psychoanalysis worldwide. This book shows experienced analysts at work offering readers a clear history, conceptual description elaboration and clinical application of Ferro’s seminal ideas, as it plunges us into zones that are the core of our analytic interactions and psychic life. Levine and the other authors’ success in integrating fundamental European, American and South-American concepts in their approach makes this book truly unique.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e – \u003cem\u003eRudi Vermote, author of \u003c\/em\u003eReading Bion \u003cem\u003e(Routledge), training and supervising analyst, Belgian Psychoanalytic Society.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Howard Levine and his Boston Group were among the first outside of Italy to become interested in the study of post-Bionian Field Theory. Marked by innovative theoretical elaborations and abundant clinical examples, this book is an important testimony to their many fruitful exchanges with Antonino Ferro and the Pavia School. I warmly recommend it to psychotherapists and psychoanalysts at all levels, who are in search of new and versatile working tools to devote to the treatment of psychic suffering.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e– \u003cem\u003eGiuseppe Civitarese, author of \u003c\/em\u003eSublime Subjects: Aesthetic Experience and Intersubjectivity in Psychoanalysis \u003cem\u003e(Routledge)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Ferro’s integration of Baranger’s Field Theory, Bion’s theory of transformations and his own concept of co-narratives has had a profound effect on psychoanalysis worldwide. This book shows experienced analysts at work offering readers a clear history, conceptual description, elaboration and clinical application of Ferro’s seminal ideas, as it plunges us into zones that are the core of our analytic interactions and psychic life. Levine and the other authors’ success in integrating fundamental European, American and South American concepts in their approach makes this book truly unique.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e– \u003cem\u003eRudi Vermote, author of \u003c\/em\u003eReading Bion \u003cem\u003e(Routledge), training and supervising analyst, Belgian Psychoanalytic Society\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. The Transformational Vision of Antonino Ferro 2. The Logic of the Field\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e3. Post-Bionian Field Theory: An Illustration \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e4. Dreaming Upstream: Pictograms and the Field \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e5. An Invitation to Think: Trauma, Aporia and the Intersubjective Field – A Clinical Example \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e6. The Hallucinated Field \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e7. E Pluribus Unum: Origins of the Analytic Field \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e8. Field Theory and Child Work: Playing on Separate and Overlapping Fields \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e9. Coda: The Field of the Future, the Future of the Field \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018067870039,"sku":"9780367766733","price":31.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780367766733.jpg?v=1750775528","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-postbionian-field-theory-of-antonino-ferro-9780367766733","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}