Face with the complexity of the contemporary clinic, and multiple streams of subjectivity characterized by unstable, intermittent and fragile balances, the psychoanalytic thought is called upon to give new explorations around the fundamental assumptions of "the psychoanalytic encounter".

In this perspective, an extension of psychoanalytic listening paradigm proved to be particularly interesting and fruitful, expanding the ability to the unconsciousness of psychic life.

Different qualities of listening aim to capture the psychological traces and inscriptions belonging to senses, power, and sensorimotor area, which are recorded in different epochs of life, and can be expressed in words or beyond words.

The author proposes an open attitude to listen to clinical situations as “engaging all the senses", in which are often "silent" or conveyed in different forms. On this basis they reconstruct processes of organizing the psychology, which are not yet expressible in words, but can be presented and active in the communication between the unconscious.

Tiziana Bastianini is a psychoanalyst with training functions of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (SPI) and IPA. She was Scientific Secretary of the SPI and current President of the Psychoanalytic Center of Rome. Editor for eight years of the journal “Psyche”, she worked for a long time in psychiatric settings as head of intermediate facilities for the care of psychotic patients; she was director for the Lazio Region of training projects about the contribution of psychoanalysis to the care of serious patients. She coordinated a working group on psychotic onset. She is also supervisor in various clinical settings, at mental health services and at clinical centers for young adults. She taught at several training schools for Psychotherapists. She has written numerous scientific papers and collaborated on collective volumes, including, with A. Ferruta, “La cura psicoanalitica contemporanea”. She lives and works in Rome.
Anna Ferruta is a psychoanalyst with training functions of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society and IPA, former Member of the Monitoring Advisory Board of the “International Journal of Psychoanalysis”, Founding Member of Mito&Realtà - Association for Therapeutic and Residential Communities. She has taught at the School of Specialization in Psychiatry at the University of Pavia and the School of Specialization in Life Cycle Psychology at the University of Milan Bicocca. She has published volumes and articles, including, with T. Bastianini, “La cura psicoanalitica contemporanea”. She lives and works in Milan.
Benedetta Guerrini Degl'Innocenti is a psychiatrist, PhD in Psychodynamics and Neurophysiology and a psychoanalyst with training functions of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society and the International Psychoanalytic Association. She was scientific secretary of the Florence Psychoanalytic Center, editor of the journal “Psyche” and editor-in-chief of the “Journal of Psychoanalysis”. She has taught Dynamic Psychology at the University of Chieti-Pescara and was an Honorary Judge of the Juvenile Court of Florence. She is currently the National Secretary of Training of the SPI. She has published work on early mother-child relationships and self-development, regression and borderline states, and analytic technique with patients with unrepresented states of mind. She lives and works in Florence, Italy.