ABSTRACT
Basically, in our clinical seminars, it is often a question of reciprocal guidance and co-vision intended to attain greater familiarity with this challenging process, which is sometimes referred to in the terms ego development, self formation, psychic growth, affective and cognitive maturation, capacity of insight. The mentalizing efforts that the developing person may express will be approved and encouraged to the extent to which these capacities are spontaneously active in the other members of the micro- or macro-community. Of course, parents have a primary influence on the development of mentalization as they can only 'teach' what they have previously developed in themselves. In the analytic relation, however, indoctrination and compliance tend to reproduce and reinforce the cumulative trauma that has inhibited the growth of the mind; they, in fact, incline to further conflictual splittings rather than towards the creativity of metaphoric constructions and paradoxes.
