A Psychoanalytic Exploration on Sameness and Otherness: Beyond Babel provides a series of timely reflections on the themes of sameness and otherness from a contemporary psychoanalytic perspective. "Rarely have I read a collection of such stimulating and suggestive theoretical and clinical essays by a range of scholars and practitioners of contemporary psychoanalytical psychotherapy for various mental illnesses understood in the context of 'dis-eases'. Drawing on the work of several traditional and modern schools of thought, these authors consider the constraints and restraints of body, mind, and society in the context of what Group Analysts call the 'tripartite matrix', with its emphasis on interpersonal relations, values and norms, and perhaps above all patterns of communication, both verbal and non-verbal. I was profoundly moved to realise the extent of the growth and development of a European federation of organisations, colleagues, languages and ideas, which augurs well for our continuing cooperation in the service of the well-being of our patients and clients, even in adverse political and economic conditions." --Earl Hopper, PhD, Mem.Inst.GA. DFAGPA, psychoanalyst, group analyst and organisational consultant in private practice in London "The special strenght of this innovative book arisis exactly from the connection between its topic and its intrinsic creativity: open to an international vision, this text shows a combination of curiosity in exploration and freedom from any official academic attitude, while going to depth into unusual psychoanalytic and widely cultural areas. I recommend A Psychoanalytic Exploration on Sameness and Otherness both as a fascinating read and as a potential educational instrument for psychologists, psychotherapysts and psychoanalysts." --Stefano Bolognini, IPA Past President