Vittorio Lingiardi


Vittorio Lingiardi is an Italian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Full Professor of Dynamic Psychology and past Director of the Clinical Psychology Specialization Program, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. He has coordinated with Nancy McWilliams the second edition of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, the PDM-2.

Affiliations

He is member of the International Association for Analytical Psychology, International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Society for Psychotherapy Research, Italian Chapter, and of the Italian Psychological Association. He is also member of the Steering Committee to the Suitability Assessment of the Psychotherapy Training Programs, Ministry of Education, University and Research and of the Scientific Committee of the LGBT Portal of the Department for Equal Opportunities, Presidency of the Council of Ministers.

Research topics

His scientific and research areas of interest are:
  1. Diagnosis, assessment and therapeutic treatment of personality disorders
  2. Process outcome research in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis
  3. Defense mechanisms
  4. Therapeutic alliance
  5. Gender identity and sexual orientation

    Publications

For the publishing house Raffaello Cortina he is Chief Editor of the series “Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Psychotherapy”. He is editorial consultant for the publisher il Saggiatore and collaborator of the cultural insert Domenica Il Sole 24 ore and of the magazine Il Venerdì di Repubblica, where he writes a weekly column on cinema and psychoanalysis: “Psycho”. He is also the author of two books of poetry: La confusione è precisa in amore and Alterazioni del ritmo .

Books