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He
graduated in Medicine and Surgery in Naples and specialized in Neurology
and in Psychiatry in Rome. Ever since 1967 he has been interested in
approaching problems concerning the psychotherapy: he was the first
in Italy to introduce and adopt the Short Analytic Psychotherapy.
He experienced many different psychiatric and psychoanalytic cases and
is promoter along with others of a well-known criticism to the Freudian
institutes and theory. He has been official since 1980 of Clinical Psychiatry,
of Psychotherapy since 1984 and is Head Physician of the Special Service
of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University “La Sapienza”
in Rome.
He is the author of over one hundred publications dealing in the early
years mainly with issues of Psychopharmacology, of Clinical Psychiatry
and Psychopathology. Since 1970 he has been mostly concentrating on
Analytic Psychotherapy with particular attention to its possible applications
in public institutions.
He
is the author of twelve volumes, including: “Il primo colloquio
psichiatrico” (1980); “Le psiconevrosi: fenomenologia e
psicodinamica” (1988); “Manuale di psichiatria e psicoterapia”
(1991, counting many reprints); “P. Janet: la passione sonnambulica”
(1994); “Lo spazio della mente: saggi di psicosomatica”
(1996); “L'isola dei Feaci. Percorsi psicoanalitici nella storia,
nella clinica, nella letteratura” (1998); “Manuale di psichiatria
e psicoterapia” (1999, second extended edition).
He has always been
interested in allied disciplines such as Biopsychology with special
reference to the problem of sleep and to the meaning of dreams whose
results are presented in “L'altra faccia della luna. Il mistero
del sonno” (1996), or such as the Transcultural Psychiatry (he
is scientific Director at the Institute for Transcultural Mental Hygiene).
He is presently one of the most authoritative representatives of the
psychiatric group opposing the organistic-like limiting trend and claims
for psychiatry a new identity based upon the dynamic and psychotherapeutic
approach to the mental illness.
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