Giuseppe Civitarese, MD, PhD, is a training and supervising analyst (SPI, APsaA, IPA). He lives in Pavia, Italy. His books include The Intimate Room: Theory and Technique of the Analytic Field; The Violence of Emotions: Bion and Post-Bion Psychoanalysis; Truth and the Unconscious; and Sublime Subjects: Aesthetic Experience and Intersubjectivity in Psychoanalysis.

Antonino Ferro is a training analyst at the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, the American Psychoanalytic Association, and the International Psychoanalytical Association. He is the current president of Pavia's Psychoanalytic Centre. He received the Sigourney Award in 2007.