1. Psychosocioanalysis (PSOA) originates from Europe. Starting from Sigmund Freud’s intuitions, it grew with contributions from Melanie Klein, Wilfred R. Bion and Eliott Jaques and - initially - it referred to Northern based Anglo-Saxon socioanalysis.

2. In Italy, since the late sixties, it has developed an original perspective thanks to Franco Fornari’s and Luigi Pagliarani’s contributions. PSOA is study, research, and work in three main settings: psychotherapy, education and institutional change projects.

3. PSOA has enriched its model by hybridizing its specific background with contributions from the Object Relations Theory, the Psychology of the Self, the Neolatin School of E. Pichon Riviere, the Complexity Theory and literature on Management and Organisation.

4. Today, PSOA is a theory, a method and a technique based on continuous attention to the links and connections between individual, group and institution:

• Its basic concept is the puer (germinability and project) with its interpsychic (internal group) and interpersonal (reference groups at different social and institutional levels) problems;
  
  
• It works on the principle that basic fault deficiency and uneasiness are considered as limits as well as potential resources for the “new” to come to birth;
  
  
• It asserts that we learn by doing, when learning to deal with our own emotions as well as with culture and the world at large;
  
  
• It believes that the emotions roused by the actual task in progress (individual, group and institutional controtransfert) are the main knowledge tool and it asserts that, when our creative potential is inhibited, disturbances emerge, both in capacity to love and make and that, consequently, our capability of building good relationships - within the self, with others, with one’s work and with the world - is suffers too;
  
  
• It offers, to the individual and to the group, operational tools to conjugate “to love” and “to make” in the tenses and in the moods appropriate to dynamic settings, being aware that the quality of life of the individual, the group, the polis and - in general terms - the whole eco-system depends on the actual consistency-integration-interaction of these settings.