Stanghellini Giovanni

Giovanni Stanghellini is one of the most eminent contemporary Italian psychiatrists and psychotherapists, recognised internationally for his contribution to the development of phenomenological psychopathology and the philosophy of psychiatry. A doctor, psychiatrist and holder of an honorary Doctorate in Philosophy, he has devoted his academic work to the study of the subjective experience of mental disorders, integrating clinical, anthropological and philosophical perspectives.

Throughout his academic career, he has held posts at the University of Florence, where he is Professor of Dynamic Psychology, and at the Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile, as an Adjunct Professor. Previously, he undertook teaching and research at the G. d’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, contributing to the training of numerous specialists in the field of clinical psychopathology. He is also the founder and director of the School of Phenomenological-Dynamic Psychotherapy in Florence and president of the International Network for Philosophy and Psychiatry, one of the leading international networks dedicated to dialogue between psychiatry and philosophy.

Regarded as one of the leading international figures in phenomenological psychopathology, Stanghellini has received widespread academic recognition for his contribution to the humanisation of psychiatry and the development of person-centred models that integrate diagnosis, an understanding of lived experience and the therapeutic relationship. His works have been translated and studied in numerous countries and serve as a point of reference for clinicians, researchers and philosophers of mind.

His publications in Italian include Psychopathology of Common Sense (Raffaello Cortina, 2008), a work now regarded as a classic for the phenomenological understanding of schizophrenia;Psychology of the Pathological: A Phenomenological-Dynamic Perspective (with Mario Rossi Monti, Raffaello Cortina, 2009); and We Are a Dialogue. Anthropology, Psychopathology, Care (Raffaello Cortina, 2017); Psychopathological Worlds: Theory and Practice of the Psychotherapeutic Interview (with Milena Mancini, Edra, 2018); Love That Heals: Why Medicine Cannot Do Without Patients (Feltrinelli, 2018); Selfie. Feeling Oneself Through the Gaze of the Other (Feltrinelli, 2020), A History of Clinical Phenomenology. Origins, Developments, the Italian School (with Aurelio Molaro, UTET Università, 2020); and Divine Presence. The Mystical, Erotic and Aesthetic Gateway to the Experience of the Formless (Quodlibet, 2024).