This book is aimed at appreciating and further developing the work of Pina Boggi Cavallo. She was a scholar that fully embodied the spirit of the first cognitive revolution in psychology, whose ideal was to consider human being in its totality. The focus of scientific investigation in her work, were the processes of thought, as connected to the affective and ethical dimensions, the social construction of the developing Self within the real context of its making.

Chapter 1. Enchantment of the Mind: the Salernitan Questions.- Part 1: Sowing.- Chapter 2. Field-dependence: a strong theoretical model.- Chapter 3. Women and Popular Medicine.- Chapter 4. Parents, children and the third age: the needs of the elderly.- Chapter 5. Lou Andreas-Salomè: On Women and Psychoanalysis.- Chapter 6. The earthquake and the psycho-sociological research.- Part 2: Fertilizing.- Chapter 7. The Field-Dependence: A Strong Theoretical Model: A review.- Chapter 8. An Overview of Mind-Wandering According to Boggi's Approach and Interests.- Chapter 9. Contemporary considerations on "Donna e Medicina Popolare".- Chapter 10. Comment on Pina Boggi Cavallo and Michele Cesaro's "Parents, children and the third age: the needs of older people".- Chapter 11. Lou Andreas-Salomé: Which woman? Which body? Whose narcissism?.- Chapter 12. Yearning for Home: Place, Loss and New Paradigms of Psychological Practice.- Part 3: Cultivating.- Chapter 13. Pina Boggi Cavallo: the person, the scientific intuitions, the pioneering value and the intellectual legacy of her contributions.- Chapter 14. In search of an experiment: from Vygotsky to Lewin and Dembo - and back to the future.- Chapter 15. Fostering mentalizing communities. Knowledge and beliefs towards a reflective society.- Chapter 16. Pina Boggi Cavallo and my "Southern Italian Gesture Project.- Chapter 17. Smiling: positive and negative emotions, personal and social attitudes.- Chapter 18. The attention to student well-being: the university psychological counseling.