“…Some of the shared preoccupations these papers deal with are: memory, history, and reconstruction; experiences of loss, mental growth, and creativity; facts linked with the passage of time-childhood, youth, maturity, and old age, as well as the inevitability of death; perception, desire, pleasure, and love; intimacy, identity, individuality, and difference; dialectics between inside/outside, language/action, individual/society, and reality/ illusion; the experience of listening, reading, or beholding; the value of thinking, relating, and helping; the consequences of new technologies for our ways of thinking and relating; and the complexities of violence, destructiveness, fundamentalism, and trauma. (See Abella 2008Abella , 2010Anderson 2009;Ashur 2009;Baudry 2001;Blum 2001;Civitarese 2010;Diena 2009;Frosch 2009;Goldstein 1975;Golinelli 2003;Jones 1999;Mandelbaum 2011;Minerbo 2008;Paul 2011;Petrella 2008;Poland 2003;Sabbadini 2009Sabbadini , 2011Schaub 2008;Schiller 2008;Schwartz 2009;Szajnberg 2010;Tylim 2010;and West-Leuer 2009. ) The style adopted by these papers comes nearer to what we usually call a dialogue: listening to the way others tackle the same questions with which we ourselves are dealing; confronting models and exploring different answers; receiving/learning instead of only giving/teaching; trying not to demonstrate but to listen to the way that others use our suggestions and their echoes on our own thinking; putting to work our constructs and questioning our ideas; accepting that we may be destabilized in our certainties and being willing to deconstruct our truths in order to allow them to grow and be enriched.…”