Editorial

Abstract

Over the years, a vast and interesting debate has developed within Adlerian societies which, in an attempt to define, provided it exists, a specific quality differentiating the analytical process from psychodynamic psychotherapy, has contributed to tracing the evolutionary lineaments and the role of the various types of interventions, whether curative or corrective, capable of making use of psychological means.
Pier Luigi Pagani, in his article L'evoluzione dei concetti di ‘psicoterapia’ e di ‘analisi’ nella Psicologia Individuale italiana (The evolution of the concepts of ‘psychotherapy’ and ‘analysis’ in Italian Individual Psychology), which opens issue 49 of our journal, sets out to shed light on a very complex subject, which certainly raises important methodological and epistemological problems