The metaphor of the field emerges in the context of reflection around the phenomenology of analytic treatment, and its heuristic value contributes to highlighting the intersubjective and relational dynamics of the therapeutic process. This perspective introduces a vision of the Care path as a psychic place in which a form of interactive, conscious and unconscious experience is given life, which transcends individual individuals. The reflections proposed in the volume intend to reiterate the need to consider the therapy of individuals, groups, large groups, as places that promote symbolic and processual expressions, emerging from the flow of psychic communications. Against this background, the meaning of the work is outlined which aims, among other things, to “hold together” scholars of different origins; the reflections start from the metaphor of the analytic field and in some cases come to place it in relation to the formulations concerning the archetypal field and the collective unconscious.
Massimiliano Scarpelli is a psychologist and psychotherapist. He is an ordinary analyst with didactic functions of the AIPA (Italian Association for Analytical Psychology) and of the IAAP (International Association for Analytical Psychology). He is an ordinary member of AISPT (Italian Sandplay Therapy Association). He carries out the functions of psychologist and psychotherapist manager at the Complex Operational Unit of Clinical Psychology of the ASL NA1. He has published various articles in specialized journals.
Ferdinando Testa is a psychotherapist and training analyst psychologist at the Italian Center for Analytical Psychology (CIPA), Southern Institute and the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP); he is a professor of Dream Psychology at the Southern Cipa, where he leads clinical research and supervision groups. Ordinary member of LAI, Imaginative Analytical Laboratory for Sandplay Therapy in Rome, he has carried out care, research and training activities; he is the author of numerous volumes, articles and reports in the scientific field.