The Milan Seminar

John Bowlby (1907 - 1990). World famous psychiatrist and father of attachment theory, Bowlby worked for many years as Child and Family Psychiatrist at London's renowned Tavistock Clinic. Marco Bacciagaluppi graduated at the University of Milan Medical School and then received postgraduate training in genetics and radiobiology at the Department of Genetics of the University of Pavia, in psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Milan and at New York Medical College, and in sociology at the New School for Social Research, New York. After psychoanalytic training, since 1999 he has co-operated in organising thirteen Joint Meetings between the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry (AAPDP) and the Organizzazione di Psicoanalisti Italiani - Federazione e Registro (OPIFER). He is a Fellow of AAPDP, Founding President of OPIFER, Honorary Member of the International Erich Fromm Society (IEFS), Member of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Section on Psychotherapy, and Member of the Associazione Culturale Sandor Ferenczi (ACSF). He has recently published 'Paradigms in Psychoanalysis' (Karnac Books, 2012).

Series Editor’s Foreword , Foreword , Introduction and correspondence , General discussion , First case presentation: Medusa the revolutionary , Discussion of first case presentation , Second case presentation: the boarding school boy , Discussion of second case presentation , Third case presentation: the case of Adriana , Discussion of third case presentation , Conclusion of the seminar , Follow-up of first case presented , Follow-up of second case presented , Surprisingly simple: planning the seminar , A strange guest at our house. The encounter with Bowlby in 1985 viewed in retrospect , Experiential–dynamic psychotherapy: a therapeutic application of attachment theory , Concluding remarks