ABSTRACT
Personal and professional lives are closely intertwined with the acquirement of cultural and scientific knowledge. They are made up of encounters, readings, exchanges, events, and work and study experiences. They are a set of tesserae that periodically are organised into a coherent mosaic. This contribution aims at regarding John Bowlby’s seminar in Milan from the point of view of the impact it had on us, and, therefore, at recalling anecdotes and comments on the seminar. Personal experience is not only political, as they used to say in the 1970s, but in our field it is also professional.
