Intersubjectivity and Psychopathology: Borderline and Psychosomatic Bodies “at the Mind’s Limits”

(PhD Emory University, Comparative Literature, Atlanta, USA; Dottorato di ricerca, Anglistica, Università di Genova) is full professor of dynamic psychology at the University of Bergamo, Italy, after having served as full professor of English literature and Shakespearean drama until 2012 and later as full professor of clinical psychology at the University of Chieti, Italy. She is an associate member of the Società Italiana Psicoterapia Psicoanalitica (SIPP), a psychoanalyst with training functions for the Società Italiana Psicoanalisi e Psicoterapia- Sandor Ferenczi (SIPeP-SF), and an active member of several international professional associations. She was a fellow at the Institute for Personality Disorders directed by Otto Kernberg in New York in 2005-2006 and more recently a visiting scholar at the New School for Social Research, New York, in the fall 2018. She is the author of various monographs on Shakespeare and psychoanalytic criticism, on feminine writing and theories of literature. Within the psychoanalytic field, her major publications in English are Beyond individual and collective trauma (Karnac, now Routledge, 2013) and Borderline bodies. Affect regulation therapy for personality disorders (Norton, 2018). Her fields of expertise are mainly trauma of human agency, intergenerational transmission, and personality disorders. She is co-editor of Unrepressed unconscious: Implicit memory and clinical work (Karnac, 2017), a project integrating neuroscience with psychoanalysis. She is also on the editorial board of the American Journal of Psychoanalysis, the International Forum of Psychoanalysis, and The wise baby/Il poppante saggio. She is on the teaching board of several training schools and supervisor in psychodynamic therapy in Italy, and also in the USA and the UK (Confer Books). She is certified to conduct and score the Adult Attachment Interview (University of California, Berkeley, USA, training directed by M. Main and E. Hesse, under the guidance of D. Jakobvitz and N. Dazzi), and to score Reflective Functioning (after training under the guidance of H. Steele, New School for Social Research, New York).