Born in Modena on June 23rd 1957, MD, PhD, Associate Professor
in Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of
Bologna. “Clinical Methodology” and “Laboratory of
Clinical Psychology” courses, Degree in Clinical Psychology,
Faculty of Psychology, University of Bologna and “Theory and
Techniques of Clinical Consultation” and “Psychosomatics” courses,
Speciality School in Clinical Psychology and Speciality School in
Health Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Bologna.
Head of Attachment Assessment Lab (AAL), Department of Psychology,
University of Bologna.
Winner in 1987 of Italian Psychosomatic Medicine Society (SIMP)
1st prize for his researches on psychosomatic urology. His
scientific activity focuses on Clinical Psychology and
Psychosomatic areas and on the study of attachment. In particular,
his works deal with following topics:
1)psychological suffering, couple relationship and parental
functions during pregnancy and post-natal period;
2)psychosomatic assessment and researches on effects of
psychological variables on pathogenesis, evolution and treatment of
medical disorders (cardiovascular, urologic,
obstetric-gynaecologic, gastrointestinal, and dermathologic);
3)treatments and training problems in Psychosomatics;
4)eating disorders in adolescence and young adults;
5)emotional and relational problems in family mediation and in
family therapy;
6)study and assessment of attachment in life span and in
clinical conditions;
7)development of new methods for the assessment of attachment
and reflective function. In particular, the Attachment Movie
Test (AMT), a test based on the vision of short films referring
to AAI items, and the Reflective Function in the Family
(RFF), a systemic theory oriented test for the study of
mentalization in family therapy, based on the analysis and
codifying of the transcript of the session.
Founder member of the International Association for the Study of
Attachment (IASA). From 2000 he organizes workshops and congresses
on Dynamic-Maturational Model of Attachment (DMM) (from these, the
1st Biennial Conference of IASA, Bertinoro, 5-7
October 2008, the 2nd Biennial Conference of IASA,
Cambridge, UK, 28-31 August 2010, and the 3rd Biennial
Conference of IASA: Attachment, Assessment and treatment: the DMM
approach, Frankfurt, Germany, September 14-16, 2012 )) and he
is also a reliable codifier of Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) in
DMM perspective and the author of many books on psychosomatics and
on attachment.
He is reviewer of the following scientific journals: Giornale
di Psicologia, Psicologia Clinica dello Sviluppo, Rassegne di
Psicologia, BioMed Central Psychiatry (BMC Psychiatry),
Psychological reports, DMM News.
