The Unexpected Disclosure and Treatment of a Trauma as a Result of an Adoption Procedure: A Clinical Case

Practises in Rome (Italy) as a private psychologist and psychotherapist (dynamic and mentalization-based psychotherapy of the individual and of the couple). He graduated in Clinical and Community Psychology at the University of Rome and obtained the Diploma of Specialization in Psychoanalytic Psycho-Therapy having attended the post-graduate four-year course of the 'Scuola Internazionale di Psicoterapia nel Setting Istituzionale (S.I.P.S.I.) affiliated to the International Institute for Psychoanalytic Research and Training of Health Professionals, Canada (I.I.P.R.TR.H.P.). He has the Training and Reliability Certification in the analysis of the adult attachment interview (AAI) of Mary Main and Erik Hesse (University of California, Berkeley), the Training and Reliability Certification in New York, with Professor Arietta Slade of the City University of New York, and the training held by professors Peter Fonagy and Anthony Bateman for the ‘mentalization-based treatment’ of borderline patients (at the Anna Freud Centre, London, England). Email: corradozaccagnini@alice.it

Researcher at the University of Milan - ‘Bicocca’. She earned her PhD in dynamic, clinical, and developmental psychology and has been in clinical practice as a couple and family psychotherapist since 2001. She trained with Judith Crowell in Stony Brook in the Current Relationship Interview in 2003. Her research interests are attachment, adoption and dynamic couple psychotherapy. Her latest book, co-authored with G. C. Zavattini, is La relazione di coppia. Valutazione e misure (2007, Roma, Borla).

Psychologist. She is the head of the Consultorio Familiare (Family Advice Bureau) of the Servizio Sanitario Nazionale in Rome, where she is responsible for evaluating the Coppie Richiedenti Adozione (couples applying for adoption, national as well as international). Among her activities in the Consultorio Familiare, she leads groups with members of the adoptive families.