A collection of essays by a psychoanalyst who practices in a country whose language is not familiar to the majority of readers in the Anglo-Saxon world is to be heartily welcomed-all the more so when the author is as experienced and worldly os Dr. Nissin Momigliano who came into psychoanalysis in the aftermath of the reorganization in the aftermath of the Second World War.. She has continued to develope her own ideas particularly on the issues of technique and practice. In this volume she proposes to tell readers about her own way of working concentrating on the setting in which analysts and...

This book presents a way to formulate, from several points of view, Psychoanalysis as an encounter between two persons, and highlights the aspects of symmetry and affective exchange of this encounter where analysis is seen as a relationship between two minds. In this shared expereince the study of the mind of the Analyst and of his method of work grows in importance as the source of benefits and misdirections which can be exchanged in the encounter with the patient.