Vittorio Lingiardi

Vittorio Lingiardi
Born	Milan, Italy
Fields	Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy
Institutions	Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology

Vittorio Lingiardi is an Italian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Full Professor of Dynamic Psychology and past Director of the Clinical Psychology Specialization Program (2006-2013), Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.^[1][2][3] He is currently coordinating with Nancy McWilliams the second edition of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, the PDM-2 (Guilford Press, expected for 2017).^[4]

Affiliations

He is member of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP), International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP), Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR), Italian Chapter (SPR-it), and of the Italian Psychological Association (AIP, Clinical and Dynamic Division).^[5] He is also member of the Steering Committee to the Suitability Assessment of the Psychotherapy Training Programs, Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR, Italy) and of the Scientific Committee of the LGBT Portal of the Department for Equal Opportunities, Presidency of the Council of Ministers (UNAR, Office against Discrimination, Italy).^[6]

Research topics

His scientific and research areas of interest are:

1. Diagnosis, assessment and therapeutic treatment of personality disorders
2. Process outcome research in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis
3. Defense mechanisms
4. Therapeutic alliance
5. Gender identity and sexual orientation

Publications

For the publishing house Raffaello Cortina (Milan) he is Chief Editor of the series “Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Psychotherapy”. He is editorial consultant for the publisher il Saggiatore and collaborator of the cultural insert Domenica Il Sole 24 ore and of the magazine Il Venerdì di Repubblica, where he writes a weekly column on cinema and psychoanalysis: “Psycho”.^[5] He is also the author of two books of poetry: La confusione è precisa in amore [Love is a Precise Confusion] (2012)^[7] and Alterazioni del ritmo [Rhythm Disorders] (2015).^[8]

Books

• (Italian) Citizen gay. Affetti e diritti [Citizen gay: Affections and rights]. Milan: il Saggiatore, 2016 (3rd edition).
• (Italian) La personalità e i suoi disturbi. Valutazione e diagnosi al servizio del trattamento [Personality and its disorders: Assessment and diagnosis for treatment indications]. Milan: Cortina, 2014. (with F. Gazzillo)
• (Italian) La valutazione della personalità con la SWAP-200 [Personality assessment with the SWAP-200]. Milan: Cortina 2014. (with J. Shedler & D. Westen)
• (Italian) La svolta relazionale. Itinerari italiani [The relational turn: Italian journeys]. Milan: Cortina, 2011. (with G. Amadei, G. Caviglia, & F. De Bei)
• (Italian) Linee guida per la consulenza psicologica e la psicoterapia con persone lesbiche, gay e bisessuali. [Guidelines for psychological counselling and psychotherapy with lesbians, gay men and bisexuals]. Milan: Cortina, 2014. (with N. Nardelli)
• The Mental Health Professions and Homosexuality: International Perspectives. New York: Haworth, 2003. (with J. Drescher)
• Men in Love: Male Homosexualities from Ganymede to Batman. Chicago & La Salle: Open Court, 2002.

Selected scholarly publications

• Colli, A., Gentile, D., Tanzilli, A., Speranza, A. M., & Lingiardi, V. (2016). Therapeutic Interventions in the Treatment of Eating Disorders: A Naturalistic Study. Psychotherapy, 53(2), 152-162. doi:10.1037/pst0000063
• Gordon, R., Gazzillo, F., Blake, A., Bornstein, R. F., Etzi, J., Lingiardi, V., … & Tasso, A. F. (2016). The Relationship Between Theoretical Orientation and Countertransference Expectations: Implications for Ethical Dilemmas and Risk Management. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 23(3), 236-245. doi:10.1002/cpp.1951
• Lingiardi, V., Carone, N., Morelli, M., & Baiocco, R. (2016). 'It's a bit too much fathering this seed': The meaning-making of the sperm donor in lesbian mother families. Reproductive BioMedicine Online. doi:10.1016/j.rbmo.2016.06.007
• Lingiardi, V., Holmqvist, R., & Safran, J. (2016). Relational turn and psychotherapy research. Contemporary Psychoanalysis. doi:10.1080/00107530.2015.1137177
• Lingiardi, V., Nardelli, N., Ioverno, S., Falanga, S., Di Chiacchio, C., Tanzilli, A., & Baiocco, R. (2016). Homonegativity in Italy: Cultural issues, personality characteristics, and demographic correlates with negative attitudes toward lesbians and gay men. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 13(2), 95–108. doi:10.1007/s13178-015-0197-6
• Tanzilli, A., Colli, A., Del Corno, F., & Lingiardi, V. (2016). Factor structure, reliability, and validity of the Therapist Response Questionnaire. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 7(2), 147–158. doi:10.1037/per0000146
• Baiocco, R., Santamaria, F., Ioverno, S., Fontanesi, L., Baumgartner, E., Laghi, F., & Lingiardi, V. (2015). Lesbian Mother Families and Gay Father Families in Italy: Family Functioning, Dyadic Satisfaction, and Child Well-Being. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 12(3), 202–212. doi:10.1007/s13178-015-0185-x
• Colli, A., Speranza, A. M., Lingiardi, V., Gentile, D., Nassisi, V., & Hilsenroth, M. J. (2015). Eating disorders and therapist emotional responses. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 203(11), 843–849. doi:10.1097/nmd.0000000000000379
• Gazzillo, F., Lingiardi, V., Del Corno, F., Genova, F., Bornstein, R. F., Gordon, R. M., & McWilliams, N. (2015). Clinicians' emotional responses and Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual adult personality disorders: A clinically relevant empirical investigation. Psychotherapy, 52(2), 238–246. doi:10.1037/a0038799
• Huprich, S. K., McWilliams, N., Lingiardi, V., Bornstein, R. F., Gazzillo, F., & Gordon, R. M. (2015). The Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM) and the PDM-2: Opportunities to significantly affect the profession. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 35(Supp1), 60–77. doi:10.1080/07351690.2015.987594
• Lingiardi, V. (2015). No maps for uncharted lands. What does gender expression have to do with sexual orientation?. In Lemma, A., Lynch, P. (Eds.), Sexualities: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives (pp. 101–120). New York: Routledge.
• Lingiardi, V., & McWilliams, N. (2015). The Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual – 2nd Edition (PDM-2). World Psychiatry, 14(2), 237–239. doi:10.1037/a0038546
• Lingiardi, V., McWilliams, N., Bornstein, R. F., Gazzillo, F., & Gordon, R. M. (2015). The Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual Version 2 (PDM-2): Assessing patients for improved clinical practice and research. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 32(1), 94–115. doi:10.1037/a0038546
• Lingiardi, V., Nardelli, N., & Drescher, J. (2015). New Italian lesbian, gay and bisexual psychotherapy guidelines: A review. International Review of Psychiatry, 27(5), 405–415. doi:10.3109/09540261.2015.1064875
• Lingiardi, V., Nardelli, N., & Tripodi, E. (2015). Reparative attitudes of Italian psychologists toward lesbian and gay clients: Theoretical, clinical and social implications. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 46(2), 132–139. doi:10.1037/pro0000016
• Lingiardi, V., Tanzilli, A., & Colli, A. (2015). Does the severity of psychopathological symptoms mediate the relationship between patient personality and therapist response?. Psychotherapy, 52(2), 228–237. doi:10.1037/a0037919
• McWilliams, N., & Lingiardi, V. (2015). Reply to a commentary on “the psychodynamic diagnostic manual version 2 (PDM-2): Assessing patients for improved clinical practice and research”. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 32(1), 121–122. doi:10.1037/a0038530
• Tanzilli, A., Colli, A., Muzi, L., & Lingiardi, V. (2015). Clinician emotional response toward narcissistic patients: A preliminary report. Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome, 18(1), 1–9. doi:10.4081/ripppo.2015.174
• Colli, A., Tanzilli, A., Dimaggio, G., & Lingiardi, V. (2014). Patient personality and therapist response: An empirical investigation. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 171(1), 102–108. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2013.13020224
• Lingiardi, V., & Nardelli, N. (2014). Negative attitudes to lesbians and gay men: Persecutors and victims. In Corona, G., Jannini, E, Maggi, M. (Eds.), Emotional, Physical and Sexual Abuse: Impact in Children and Social Minorities (pp. 33–47). New York: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-06787-2_3
• Talia, A., Daniel, S. I. F., Miller-Bottome, M., Brambilla, D., Miccoli, D., Safran, J.D., & Lingiardi, V. (2014). AAI predicts patients' in-session interpersonal behavior and discourse: A "move to the level of the relation" for attachment-informed psychotherapy research. Attachment and Human Development, 16(2), 192–209. doi:10.1080/14616734.2013.859161
• Gazzillo, F., Lingiardi, V., Peloso, A., Giordani, S., Vesco, S., … & Vicari, S. (2013). Personality subtypes in adolescents with eating disorders. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 54(6), 702–712. doi:10.1016/j.comppsych.2013.03.006
• Lingiardi, V. (2013). Trying to be useful: Three different interventions for one therapeutic stance. Psychotherapy, 50(3), 413–418. doi:10.1037/a0032195
• Waldron, S., Gazzillo, F., Genova, F., & Lingiardi, V. (2013). Relational and classical elements in psychoanalyses: An empirical study with case illustrations. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 30(4), 567–600. doi:10.1037/a0033959
• Lingiardi, V., Baiocco, R., & Nardelli, N. (2012). Measure of Internalized Sexual Stigma for Lesbians and Gay Men: A New Scale. Journal of Homosexuality, 59(8), 1191–1210. doi:10.1080/00918369.2012.712850
• Lingiardi, V., Colli, A., Gentile, D., & Tanzilli, A. (2011). Exploration of session process: Relationship to depth and alliance. Psychotherapy, 48(4), 391–400. doi:10.1037/a0025248
• Lingiardi, V., & De Bei, F. (2011). Questioning the couch: Historical and clinical perspectives. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 21(4), 389–404. doi:10.1037/a0024357
• Lingiardi, V., Gazzillo, F., & Waldron, S. (2010). An Empirically Supported Psychoanalysis: The case of Giovanna. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 27(2), 190–218. doi:10.1037/a0019418
• Colli, A., & Lingiardi, V. (2009). The Collaborative Interactions Scale: A new transcript-based method for the assessment of therapeutic alliance ruptures and resolutions in psychotherapy. Psychotherapy Research, 19(6), 718–734. doi:10.1080/10503300903121098
• Lingiardi, V. (2008). Playing with unreality: Transference and Computer. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 89(1), 111–126. doi:10.1111/j.1745-8315.2007.00014.x
• Lingiardi, V. (2007). Dreaming Gender: Restoration and Transformation. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 8(4), 313–331. doi:10.1080/15240650701518631
• Lingiardi, V., Shedler, J., & Gazzillo, F. (2006). Assessing Personality Change in Psychotherapy with the SWAP-200: A case study. Journal of Personality Assessment, 86(1), 36–45. doi:10.1207/s15327752jpa8601_04
• Lingiardi, V., Falanga, S., & D'Augelli, A. (2005). The Evaluation of Homophobia in an Italian Sample: An Exploratory Study. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 34(1), 81–94. doi:10.1007/s10508-005-1002-z
• Lingiardi, V., Filippucci, L., & Baiocco, R. (2005). Therapeutic Alliance Evaluation in Personality Disorders Psychotherapy. Psychotherapy Research, 15(12), 45–53. doi:10.1080/10503300512331327047

References

1. "GOMP". Sapienza University of Rome (in Italian). Retrieved 3 May 2016.
2. "Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology". Sapienza University of Rome (in Italian). Retrieved 3 May 2016.
3. "Faculty of Medicine and Psychology". Sapienza University of Rome (in Italian). Retrieved 2 May 2016.
4. "The psychodynamic diagnostic manual – 2nd edition (PDM-2)". World Psychiatry. 14 (2): 237–239. June 2015. doi:10.1002/wps.20233.
5. "IGAPSYD". IGAPSYD. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
6. "Roma, 4 giugno: Presentato il portale di documentazione LGBT". UNAR (in Italian). Retrieved 3 May 2016.
7. La confusione è precisa in amore [Love is a Precise Confusion] (in Italian). Rome: nottetempo. 2012. ISBN 9788874523429.
8. Alterazioni del ritmo [Rhythm Disorders] (in Italian). Rome: nottetempo. ISBN 9788874525751.

External links

• IGAPSYD - Italian Group for the Advancement of Psychodynamic Diagnosis
• Vittorio Lingiardi on ResearchGate