Hello! I’m a clinical psychologist and researcher in mental health sciences. My main area of interest is personality.
Clinical practice
I have been trained in different therapeutic approaches that I daily use in my clinical practice. I believe that understanding one’s own personality and promoting self-compassion are the first steps in pursuing a life worth living.
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I am a clinical psychologist (PsyD, PhD), adjunct professor at the St. John’s University in Rome, and founding president of Tages Onlus, a charity member of Mental Health Europe.
I am also co-editor of Journal of Clinical Psychology: In session, associate editor of New Ideas in Psychology, member of the Advisory Board for the Oxford University Press series Treatments That Work.
I have worked for 15 years in the Italian public healthcare services and at the University of Florence, while founding and leading Tages Charity.
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I am author of over 100 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters in English and Italian. I’m also the editor of an Italian book series on recent advances in psychotherapy and have served as guest editor of a few special issues.
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Addressing Burnout with the Mindful Compassion Care Program
I am proud to share that our pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) has just been published. This study focuses on an intervention I conducted – together with Luca Bodini – with nurses in the COVID-19 wards at the University Hospital of Verona—the epicenter of the pandemic in Italy and, for a time, Europe. I initially …
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Personality disorders and human evolution
Personality disorders and human evolution is the focus of a new meta-synthesis we just published. The study presents a systematic review that integrates quantitative and qualitative methods to identify the most important insights from an evolutionary perspective on personality disorders. Recent clinical evidence is beginning to confirm what many theorists have long suspected: an evolutionary …
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New Evidence for Evolutionary Systems Therapy
A paper has just been published reporting new evidence for Evolutionary Systems Therapy. The study was designed to extend what we already knew, investigating its feasibility and potential clinical utility.Previously, an RCT and several case series had suggested the possible efficacy of Evolutionary Systems Therapy in the treatment of schizotypal traits. In this study, we …
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