Medical doctor, child neuropsychiatrist, past president of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (SPI), psychoanalyst with training functions of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (SPI/IPA), expert psychoanalyst of children and adolescents, psychotherapist of couples and families. In the course of her training and activity, including research, she founded many Societies and Associations in the field of psychotherapy and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. She has promoted the establishment of study and research groups and the creation of journals. She has coordinated and organized many congresses, conferences and seminars. 1987 Founding member of the Italian Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Childhood, Adolescence and the Couple (SIPsIA). 2000 Founding member of the Italian Society for Couple and Family Psychoanalysis (PCF), of which he was president from the date of its foundation to 2022. She participated co-founding the International Association of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis (IACFP), of which she is currently president. She is the scientific director of the journal Interazioni (Franco Angeli Ed.) and was the first director of the International Review of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis of the International Association of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis (IACFP/AIPCF). Member of the Committee of the Forum for the Psychoanalysis of Adolescents (of which she was Chair from 2005/2011) of the European Psychoanalytical Federation/Fédération Européenne de Psychanalyse (EPF/FEP). -Member of the IPA Clinical Observation 3LM Committee. -Member of the Société Européenne pour la Psychanalyse de l’Enfant et de l’Adolescent (SEPEA). -Member of the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Public Sector (EFPP), where he also collaborated in the creation of the IV Couple-Family Section. -Honorary member of Laboratorio Italiano di Psicoanalisi Multifamiliare (LIPSIM). -Supervisor Reverie Community for young psychotics.