Conferencia «The Wound Behind the Loop: Attachment Trauma, Motivational Needs, and the Search for Regulation in Behavioral Addictions»

Adriano Schimmenti, PhD, is Full Professor of Dynamic Psychology and Director of the Department of Human and Social Sciences at UKE – Kore University of Enna, Italy. He is Scientific Director of the Italian Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Scientific Guarantor of the Italian Center for Analytical Psychology (CIPA). He has served as President of the Italian College of Professors and Researchers in Dynamic Psychology and as President of the National Scientific Qualification Commission for Clinical and Dynamic Psychology. He has coordinated three international research projects and participated in several European and cross-national research programs addressing trauma, addictive behaviors, online risks, and psychopathology. His work on addiction investigates the developmental, relational, and motivational processes that shape addictive trajectories, while contributing to international debates on the conceptual and diagnostic boundaries of addictive disorders and the risks of overpathologization. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Neuropsychiatry and holds editorial roles with several international scholarly publications. He has authored or co-authored more than 350 scholarly contributions, including nine books. In 2022, he received the Prize for Contemporary Italian Literature for his novel Fuoriorario.