Giuseppe Civitarese is a psychiatrist and training and supervising analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (SPI) and a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He lives and is in private practice in Pavia, Italy. He is the editor of the Rivista di Psicoanalisi, the official journal of the SPI.

Antonino Ferro is a psychiatrist and training and supervising analyst in the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, of which he was President, and a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytical Association. He has been a visiting professor of psychoanalysis in various institutions in Europe, North Amerca, South America and Australia. He received the Sigourney Award in 2007.

1. Dreams, transformations, deconstructions 2. Vitality as a theoretical and technical parameter in psychoanalysis 3. Attacks on linking, or uncontainability of beta elements? 4. On Bion's concept of container/contained 5. Divergences 6. The birth of the psyche and intercorporeity 7. Going for a stroll: The root of emotions 8. Towards an ethics of responsibility: Notes in the margins of Bion/Rickman correspondence 9. Freud's Formulations on the two principles of mental functioning: A possibly irreverent comment 10. Ogden's parentheses, or the continuity between conscious and unconscious experience 11. Reality and fictions: people (story), internal objects (unconscious fantasies), characters (casting) 12. Internet and simultaneous life 13. The pleasure of the analytic session 14. Aesthetics and writing in psychoanalysis