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”).

Psychologist, systemic-relational psychotherapist. Ph.D. in Psychological and Pedagogical Sciences. Researcher in Clinical Psychology at the Department of Humanities, University of Naples Federico II. Member of the Society for Psychotherapy Research SPR (International and Italy Area Group), of the Italian Association of Psychology (AIP, Clinical and Dynamic Section), of the Italian Society of Health Psychology (SIPSA). Her main research interests are: group process analysis, integrity to the mentalizing treatment, clinicians' therapeutic style, reflective and engagement processes of university students, computerized methods for text analysis.

Psychologist, psychoanalytical trained psychotherapist, Ph.D. in Dynamic, Clinical and Developmental Psychology.
Researcher at the Department of Dynamic, Clinical and Health Psychology, SAPIENZA University of Rome. Member of the Society for Psychotherapy Research – SPR (International and Italy Area Group), of the Italian Association of Psychology – AIP (Clinical and Dynamic Section), of the European Society for the Study of Personality Disorders – ESSPD, and of the Italian Group for the Advancement of Psychodynamic Diagnosis – IGAPSYD. Her main research interests are: diagnostic assessment and therapeutic treatment of personality disorders in adulthood and adolescence, therapeutic relationship (transference, countertransference, alliance), diagnostic assessment of depressive disorders in adolescence, defense mechanisms, process-outcome research in psychotherapy. He 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, 2024).

Psychologist, integrated dynamic training psychotherapist, Ph.D. in Psychological Sciences.
Associate Professor in Dynamic Psychology at Universitas Mercatorum. Member of the Society for Psychotherapy Research SPR (International and Italy Area Group), Italian Country Contact for the European Chapter of SPR, Local Coordinator and Liaison Coordinator for the Research Interest Section on Therapist Training and Development of SPR (SPRISTAD). His main research interests are: integration between research in psychotherapy and affective neuroscience, neurobiological models of psychotherapies and emotional regulation, development of the relational skills of therapists in training and evaluation of the effectiveness of training, psychodynamics of groups and effectiveness of brief dynamic psychotherapies.

Associate Professor in Psychodynamic Psychology at the Department and Faculty of Psychology of the Catholic University of Milan. Full member of the Society for Psychotherapy Research – SPR (International and Italy Area Group), of the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders – ISSPD, and of the International Early Psychosis Association – IEPA. His main topics of research are the assessment and psychotherapy treatment of Depressive Disorders; the diagnostic evaluation and the possible prevent intervention of Psychotic Disorders; the mentalization and the study of its effectiveness in the treatment of Personality Disorders and into dyadic interaction.

Psychologist, psychodynamic psychotherapist, Ph.D. in Dynamic and Clinical Psychology. Research Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialization, University of Padova. Member of the Society for Psychotherapy Research SPR (International and Italy Area Group) and the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP). He has contributed to the Italian translation of the PDM-2. Main research areas: diagnostic assessment and psychotherapy treatment of psychotic disorders; attenuated psychotic syndrome and high risk for psychosis; attachment patterns and mentalization in adolescence.

Full Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Palermo (Italy).
Psychologist Ph.D, Past President of the SPR Italy Area Group (2016-2020).
His research work deals with: a) the effectiveness and therapeutic process of psychological treatments for eating disorders; and b) the therapeutic relationship in group therapy.