1. Study and assessment of attachment and mentalization in life
span and in clinical conditions
2. Psychological suffering, couple relationship and parental
functions during pregnancy and post-natal period
3. Psychosomatic assessment and researches on effects of
psychological variables on pathogenesis, evolution and treatment of
medical disorders (cardiovascular, urologic,
obstetric-gynaecologic, gastrointestinal, and dermathologic)
4. Treatments and training problems in Psychosomatics
5. Eating disorders in adolescence and young adults
6. Emotional and relational problems in family mediation
and in family therapy
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.
