Talking with Couples

Barbara Bianchini is a psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist, working privately with individuals, couples and groups. She is a full member of the British Society of Couple Psychotherapists and Counsellors (BSCPC), a member of the International Association of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis (IACFP), the 'Associazione di Psicoterapia Psicoanalitica di Gruppo (APG), and the Confederazione delle Organizzazioni Italiane per la ricerca Analitica sui Gruppi' (COIRAG), where she teaches psychotherapy. She has been honorary judge at the Milan Court of Appeal in the children and minors section, and a consultant at the ASL Couple and Family Centre in Milan. Marina Capello is a psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist, working privately with adults, adolescents, and couples. She works in the legal field as outpatient psychologist at the 'Servizio Dipendenze nella Casa di Reclusione di Milano-Opera' and as external advisor for the Ministry of Justice at the 'Ufficio Esecuzione Penale Esterna' (UEPE) of Milan and Lodi, where she conducts training courses and supervision groups with psychologists and social workers. Laura Dallanegra is a psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist, working privately with adults, adolescents, and couples, and as a supervisor of clinical cases. She teaches the theory and clinical technique of couple psychotherapy. She was a founder member of the 'Ambulatorio dell'Associazione' (Area G) in Milan, and a member of the training committee of the 'Scuola di Psicoterapia' (Area G). She has been a consultant at the Couple and Family Centre (ASL) in Milan. Maria Adelaide Lupinacci is a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, a member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (SPI) and the IPA. She specialises in the psychoanalysis of children and adolescents. She was secretary of the SPI commission on the analysis of children and adolescents, and of the 'Centri di Psicoanalisi' in Rome. She is author of many papers on the early Oedipus complex, countertransference, guilt, the mind's space-time, and psychoanalytic psychotherapy of the couple. She works privately in Rome with adults, adolescents, children and couples. Fabio Monguzzi is a psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist, now in private practice after working with various health institutions in the public sector. He is affiliated to the 'Associazione per la Ricerca in Psicologia Clinica' (ARP) and honorary Judge at the Milan juvenile court. He is a full member of the British Society of Couple Psychotherapists and Counsellors (BSCPC) and a member of the International Association of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis (IACFP). Lidia Vitalini is a psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and a member of Metandro, which provides medical and psychological services for children from the age of one to four. She works privately with adults, adolescents and couples. Giulio Cesare Zavattini is Full Professor in couple assessment and clinical intervention; Lecturer in psychoanalytic psychotherapy; a member of the of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (SPI) and International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA); a Member of the British Society of Couple Psychotherapists and Counsellors (BSCPC) and of the International Association of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis (IACFP). He is also a member of the Society for Research in Child Development, and the International Advisory Board of the 'Journal of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis'. His work has largely focused on the integration of psychodynamic theoretical and clinical work with empirical research strategies primarily in the areas of object relationships and attachment.