This book originates from a series of clinical supervisions that were held at the Sao Paulo Institute of Psychoanalysis by Antonino Ferro. Supervision in Psychoanalysis: The Sao Paulo Seminars reproduces the dialogues in the seminars that followed these supervisions in their entirety.

The transcripts of eight supervised clinical sessions along with the author's comments allows the reader to:

see the different styles of the presenting analysts first hand

understand the evaluation of Bion's thinking as developed by the author

With detailed exposure of clinical sessions, their supervision and clarification of the theoretical model of the supervisor, this book will be of interest to psychologists, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts

Antonino Ferro is President of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society and also Consultant Associate Editor of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. He is a training and supervising analyst in the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytical Association. He has been a visiting professor of psychoanalysis in various institutions in Europe, North America, South America and Australia. He received the Sigourney Award in 2007.

Introduction. Thematic Seminar 1. Clinical Seminar I. Clinical Seminar II. Clinical Seminar III. Clinical Seminar IV. Clinical Seminar. Thematic Seminar 2. Clinical Seminar V. Clinical Seminar VI. Clinical Seminar VII. Clinical Seminar VIII.