CONTRIBUTORS AND CONSULTANTS
FABIA BANELLA
Psychologist, Individual and Group Psychodynamic Psychotherapist, is Lecturer of Clinical Psychology at the University of Wollongong Australia. Supervisor of psychologists in training and Expert in Psychodiagnosis, She’s member of the Society for Psychotherapy Research SPR (International and Italy Area Group), of the Society for Personality Assessment, and of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (APA Div. 39). Her research interests are Testing and Assessment, Dimensional Models, Severity, Treatment Planning and Effectiveness, Obesity and Eating Disorders, Malingering, Groups.
Psychologist, Psychotherapist. Working for the S.S. Psychology – A. Unità Sanitaria Locale Regione – Valle D’Aosta (Local Public Health Unit). Professor in charge at the University of Valle d’Aosta where he has taught: “The diagnosis of the personality disorder trough the diagnostic instruments” and “The Psychology Service in the National Health Service”. He is currenthy teaching “Diagnostic Methods and Fundamentals of Psychopathology”. Trainer and supervisor of professional health groups.
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Psicologo, psicoterapeuta, candidato psicoanalista, Ph.D. in Psicologia Dinamica e Clinica.
Assegnista di ricerca presso il Dipartimento di Psicologia Dinamica e Clinica, Facoltà di Medicina e Psicologia, Sapienza Università di Roma.
I suoi principali interessi di ricerca sono: diagnosi, valutazione e trattamento dei disturbi di personalità in età evolutiva; la valutazione della relazione genitore-bambino; la psicopatologia dello sviluppo; lo sviluppo dell’identità di genere. Nel 2019 ha vinto il PDM-2 Research Grant conferito dal comitato scientifico del Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, 2nd Edition (PDM-2) e dall’ Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders (ICDL).
She is psychologist, child psychotherapist and expert in psychodiagnostic evaluation. She has been Adjunct Professor at the University of Valle d’Aosta and Bicocca, University of Milan. She offers training in psychotraumatology and psychodiagnostics in public and private contexts.
She is member of the EMDR Society in Italy and works as Technical/Psychological Consultants to the Judiciary in the context of family law. She collaborates with the professional studio of Clinical Psychology A.R.P. based in Milan, in which she is committed with diagnosis, treatment of developmental psychopatology and post-traumatic stress disorder, applying EMDR techniques and sensorimotor psychotherapy. She collaborated with the center of Research and Treatment of Psychological Trauma of the Italian Red Cross. Currently she works at CIAI, the Italian Center to the Infancy Help (Centro Italiano di Aiuti all’Infanzia Onlus). She works as psychologist in INCIPIT professional study, of whom she is also a founder.
She is member of the EMDR Society in Italy and works as Technical/Psychological Consultants to the Judiciary in the context of family law. She collaborates with the professional studio of Clinical Psychology A.R.P. based in Milan, in which she is committed with diagnosis, treatment of developmental psychopatology and post-traumatic stress disorder, applying EMDR techniques and sensorimotor psychotherapy. She collaborated with the center of Research and Treatment of Psychological Trauma of the Italian Red Cross. Currently she works at CIAI, the Italian Center to the Infancy Help (Centro Italiano di Aiuti all’Infanzia Onlus). She works as psychologist in INCIPIT professional study, of whom she is also a founder.
Associate Professor of Dynamic Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology, University “N. Cusano”, Rome. Psychodynamic psychotherapist, his clinical activity is focused on diagnosis and treatment of Feeding and Eating Disorders, Anxiety Dirsorders and Personality Disorders. He’s member of the Society for Psychotherapy Research SPR-Italy Area Group. His main research topics are focused on psychotherapy process and outcome, on group therapy process and on the study of personality traits in patients with eating disorder and in obese patients
Clinical psychologist. She is completing the training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and has been working from years in the field of psychiatric rehabilitation with patients suffering from psychotic and personality disorders. She collaborates with the Chair of Clinical Evaluation and Diagnosis, Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome. She is the organizational coordinator of the new edition of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM-2).
Psychologist, postgraduate student in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, Ph.D. in dynamic, clinical and developmental psychology. Research fellow at the Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Her scientific and research areas of interest are: Diagnosis, assessment and therapeutic treatment of personality disorders; transference, countertransference and therapeutic alliance; process-outcome research in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis; defense mechanisms.
PhD and PsyD, is full professor in developmental psychopathology and psychological assessment at the Turin University He was Deputy director of the Scuola di Studi Superiori (SSST) and now is Head of the Psychology Department. He teached at the University of Padua and Aosta where he has been Dean of the Psychology Faculty since its foundation. He was Deputy President of the Italian Psychology Association (AIP), member of the NAC Psychotherapy of IFPA, member of the European Rorschach Association (ERA), associate member of the Society of Personality Assessment, he has been also secretary of the italian panel of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR). He lives in Turin, Italy.