ABSTRACT
Weiss's Elements of Psychoanalysis, with a foreword by Freud, was published in 1931. Weiss was also responsible first for re-establishing the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (SPI) on 1 October 1932, in Rome, one of whose honorary members was Levi-Bianchini and three years later for having it affiliated to the IPA. The society was reorganized and officially reconstituted in 1947. Freudian theories began to make themselves felt in society almost to the point of becoming 'fashionable', managing to overcome considerable resistance, although never completely. Starting from an obvious Kleinian matrix, from Bion and from the contributions of the Argentinean school of Willy and Madelaine Baranger, Robert Langs and Nissim Momiglian, Ferro has developed a so-called bi-personal model of psychoanalysis, now identified by many with the 'Italian Bionians' or as the Pavia School. Pavia is distinctive in having a School of Psychiatry most of whose lecturers and professors were analysts.
