Who Am I? And What Makes Me Hot and Bothered? Notes on Identity, Sexuality, Enigma, and Desire

Vittorio Lingiardi, M.D., is a full professor of dynamic psychology and past director (2006–2013) of the Clinical Psychology Specialization Program at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. His research concerns diagnostic assessment, process-outcome research in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, gender identity, and sexual orientation. He and Nancy McWilliams are the Steering Committee of the new edition of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM-2, Guilford Press, 2017). He is the author of several books and many international articles, including “Psychoanalytic Attitudes Towards Homosexuality: An Empirical Research” (International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 85, 137–158, 2004), which won the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Ralph Roughton Award.
CONTACT Vittorio Lingiardi Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Via degli Apuli 1, 00185 Rome, Italy.