Editorial N° 8

EDITORIAL

ANNA MARIA NICOLÒ

We would like to dedicate this issue to André Ruffiot who died recently.
He was a man with great clinical acumen and ability to explore new frontiers in the psychoanalytical field, he also possessed extraordinary kindness and welcomed anyone in need.
His death strikes us because it deprives us of one of the masters and founders in our field of study.
His well-researched and lucid writings continue to represent fundamental texts for those who want to begin with psychoanalysis of the family and the couple.
Christiane Joubert draws up an accurate scientific profile for us in this number.
As in the last issue, this number covers some of the papers that were presented in the Buenos Aires conference in August 2010. The core of the issue, as was and as will be in future issues, is once more
dedicated to the suffering from links.
It is inevitable that this topic cements us all together both because it also radically changes our perspective in our individual work and because, as Kaës states, it covers new ways on the theme of the third topic.
Meta-psychology of links is still yet to be discovered to which numerous aspects are connected such as the evaluation of a psychopathological dimension that does not follow the distinction of classical nosography and thus, naturally, the theory and technique of clinical work with families and couples.