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Board of Directors

Italian version

Antonino Carcione

President

Ivan Gualco

Tesoriere

Annalisa Tanzilli

Vice President

Associate Professor in Dynamic Psychology
Faculty of Medicine and Psychology
Department of Dynamic, Clinical Psychology, and Health Studies
Sapienza University of Rome
Via dei Marsi, 78 - 00185 Rome
E-mail: annalisa.tanzilli@uniroma1.it

Associate Professor in Dynamic Psychology at the Dynamic, Clinical Psychology, and Health Studies, Sapienza University of Rome. Member of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR International and Italy Area Group), the Italian Association of Psychology (AIP, Clinical and Dynamic Section) and the European Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (ESSPD). Her main research interests are: diagnostic assessment and therapeutic treatment of personality disorders in adulthood and adolescence, therapeutic relationship (transference, countertransference, alliance), clinical-diagnostic assessment of depressive disorders, defense mechanisms, research on process-outcome of psychotherapies. She is Chapter Editor of the “Adolescence” section of the third edition of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM-3), edited by Vittorio Lingiardi and Nancy McWilliams (Guilford Press, 2025).

Raffaella Passeggia

Segretaria

Chiara Rossi

Coordinatore dei rapporti con le istituzioni

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Dynamic Psychology and Adjunct Lecturer
Department and Faculty of Psychology
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan
Largo Fra Agostino Gemelli 1 – 20123 Milan, Italy
E-mail: chiara.rossi1@unicatt.it

Ilaria Maria Antonietta Benzi

Scientific Activities Coordinator
E-mail: ilaria.benzi@unimib.it
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Ilaria Maria Antonietta Benzi is a psychologist and psychodynamic-relational psychotherapist with a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. She teaches Primary Care Psychology at the University of Milano-Bicocca and serves as Associate Editor for Current Psychology (Springer Nature).
She is a member of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR International and Italy Area Group), the Italian Association of Psychology (AIP, Clinical and Dynamic Psychology Section), the International Society of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (ISTFP), the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (ISSPD), and the Personality Disorders Lab (PDLab).
Her main research interests include dimensional models of personality development and psychopathology, behavioral addictions in adolescence and emerging adulthood, psychological assessment (test construction and validation), psychotherapy effectiveness, and advanced statistical methods. She has contributed to national and international research projects focusing on emerging personality pathology, epistemic trust, mentalization, and the effectiveness of psychological interventions.

Since 2013, she has been President of the Centro Studi per la Cultura Psicologica (CSCP), where she coordinates scientific and educational activities. She is also a founding member and past president of the Alumni Bicocca association.
Since 2020, she has coordinated the communication team of the Lombardy Board of Psychologists and, since 2021, has served as a representative on the General Council of ENPAP (National Social Security and Welfare Body for Psychologists), where she promotes representation and gender policies.

Ilaria Maria Antonietta Benzi is a psychologist and psychodynamic-relational psychotherapist with a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. She teaches Primary Care Psychology at the University of Milano-Bicocca and serves as Associate Editor for Current Psychology (Springer Nature).
She is a member of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR International and Italy Area Group), the Italian Association of Psychology (AIP, Clinical and Dynamic Psychology Section), the International Society of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (ISTFP), the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (ISSPD), and the Personality Disorders Lab (PDLab).
Her main research interests include dimensional models of personality development and psychopathology, behavioral addictions in adolescence and emerging adulthood, psychological assessment (test construction and validation), psychotherapy effectiveness, and advanced statistical methods. She has contributed to national and international research projects focusing on emerging personality pathology, epistemic trust, mentalization, and the effectiveness of psychological interventions.

Since 2013, she has been President of the Centro Studi per la Cultura Psicologica (CSCP), where she coordinates scientific and educational activities. She is also a founding member and past president of the Alumni Bicocca association.
Since 2020, she has coordinated the communication team of the Lombardy Board of Psychologists and, since 2021, has served as a representative on the General Council of ENPAP (National Social Security and Welfare Body for Psychologists), where she promotes representation and gender policies.

Vittorio Lingiardi

Past President
Professore Ordinario, Facoltà di Medicina e Psicologia
Dipartimento di Psicologia Dinamica, Clinica e Salute
SAPIENZA Università di Roma
Via dei Marsi, 78 - 00185 Roma
E-mail: vittorio.lingiardi@uniroma1.it

Vittorio Lingiardi, M.D., psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, is Full Professor of Dynamic Psychology and past Director of the Clinical Psychology Specialization Program in the Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology of the Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. He is President (2019-2022) of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR, Italy Area Group). His research interests include: diagnostic assessment and treatment of personality disorders, process-outcome research in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, defense mechanisms, therapeutic alliance, and gender identity and sexual orientation. He is author of many articles published in the main international journals of psychiatry, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis. He and Nancy McWilliams comprised the Steering Committee of the new edition of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM-2; Guilford, 2017), which won the American Board & Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize (Clinical section). He is the recipient of several awards including the 2004 Ralph Roughton Paper Award from the American Psychoanalytic Association, the 2018 Cesare Musatti Award from the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, and the 2019 Research Award from the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (Division 39) of the American Psychological Association. Among his last books: Citizen Gay (Il Saggiatore, 2016); Mindscapes (Cortina, 2017); Diagnosis and Destiny (Einaudi, 2018); I, you, we. Living with Yourself, the Other, the Others (Utet, 2019); To the movies with a psychoanalyst (Cortina, 2020). He is the author of two books of poetry: La confusione è precisa in amore (Love is a Precise Confusion; Edizioni Nottetempo, 2012) and Alterazioni del ritmo (Rhythm Disorders; Edizioni Nottetempo, 2015). He is the chief editor of the series “Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Psychotherapy” for the publishing house Raffaello Cortina (Milan), and an editorial board member of Sapienza University Press (Rome). He writes for the cultural supplement “Domenica” of the newspaper “Il Sole 24 Ore”, for the newspaper “La Repubblica”, and for the magazine “Venerdì di Repubblica” (a weekly column on cinema and psychoanalysis called “Psycho”).