This book makes explicit the scientific theories, termed paradigms, that the author has found useful in psychoanalysis. It lists nine paradigms: genetics, neurobiology, attachment theory, infant research, trauma, their relational model, the family system, the socio-cultural level, and prehistory. These nine paradigms are presented in as many chapters.

Special attention is devoted to attachment theory, which the author considers to be the most powerful conceptual tool at the disposal of the psychoanalyst. He also covers trauma, the relational model - with special reference to...

This book contains John Bowlby's previously unpublished -Milan Seminar-, together with a new introduction provided by Marco Bacciagaluppi, and the publication for the first time of previously unseen correspondence between Bowlby and Bacciagaluppi. The seminar includes Bowlby's comments on cases presented by Italian colleagues, and should be of great interest for English-speaking readers, bringing this material to light for the first time.