This book touches upon many of the key areas of contemporary psychoanalysis: setting, technique, theory, as well as post-Bionian models and the 'Bionian Field Theory'. It is meant to be a self-defence handbook for new, usually young, analysts.

Ferro, Antonino

Introduction -- Identity -- The rules of the game -- Beginnings -- Matters of theory -- The road from Freud to Bion -- Travelling light -- The analytic field -- Technical issues -- Dreaming -- Meetings