Antonino Ferro

Bio: Antonino Ferro is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Dialogical self & Mentalization. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 6 publications receiving 45 citations.

Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder, Mentalization-based Treatment

Abstract: ![Figure][1] While reading this book I also read reviews of Gielgud’s Letters ([Mangan, 2004][2]) and a biography of Michael Redgrave ([Strachan, 2004][3]). These gave accounts of the lives of these two actors that left little out from a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder.

Therapeutic Consultations in Child Psychiatry.

Abstract: Now, we come to offer you the right catalogues of book to open. therapeutic consultations in child psychiatry is one of the literary work in this world in suitable to be reading material. That's not only this book gives reference, but also it will show you the amazing benefits of reading a book. Developing your countless minds is needed; moreover you are kind of people with great curiosity. So, the book is very appropriate for you.

Clinical implications of Bion's thought.

Abstract: 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 fertile connection between Bion's theories and the fi eld concept in psychoanalysis.

Taking time: the tempo of psychoanalysis.

Abstract: In this article the author argues that in order to be psychoanalysis, the ‘here and now’ technical approach needs to be firmly grounded theoretically and technically in a practice that includes the...

The Meaning and Use of Metaphor in Analytic Field Theory

Abstract: Each of the principal psychoanalytic models is underlain by certain key metaphors. For example, the archaeological and surgical metaphors, as well as that of the analyst-as-screen, all throw light on some of Freud's basic concepts. In classical psychoanalysis, however, metaphor still tends to be an illegitimate or secondary element. Analytic field theory, on the other hand, reserves a completely different place for it, both as an instrument of technique in clinical work and as a conceptual device in theoretical activity. Metaphor and the field are linked in a chiasm: The field metaphor transforms Kleinian relational theory into a radically intersubjective theory, which, in turn, places metaphor at a point along the spectrum of dreaming—to paraphrase Bion, it is the stuff of analysis. For the sake of illustration, we examine first the origins and meaning of the field metaphor in analytic field theory; we then consider the mutual implications of this particular development of post-Bion psychoanalysis and th...