Maurizio Andolfi

Biography

Maurizio Andolfi,M.D.was born in Rome in 1942.He studied Medicine and Child Psychiatry in Rome at Univ.“La Sapienza”. After his univ. education he moved to New York City in the early ‘70s,with a Fellowship in Social Community Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and working extensively in South Bronx and in South Philadelphia with very disadvantaged families from different ethnic groups.During his staying in the U.S. he studied in the major family therapy institutes of the East Coast:the Family Studies Section of Bronx State Hospital with I.Zwerling and A.Scheflen;the N.Ackerman Fam. Inst. with K.La Perrière and P.Papp;the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic with S.Minuchin and J.Haley.During these years he was influenced by C.Whitaker, with whom he had been studying and organizing many international meetings and conferences in several countries.In the USA he was a Visiting Prof. at the Dpt of Mental Health Sciences of the Hanheman Medical College in Philadelphia for number of years. Today he is Full Professor in Psychology, Univ.of Rome “La Sapienza”,founder and director of the Accademia di Psicoterapia della Famiglia,an A.A.M.F.T.Approved Supervisor,founder of the S.Andolfi Foundation,editor- in- chief of the Italian journal Terapia Familiare,winner of AAMFT award for special contribution in couple and family therapy in 1999,co-founder of the European Fam.Therapy Ass. and past president of the Italian Fam.Therapy Society. Since1981-for English speaking family therapists- and from 1991-for Spanish and French speaking family therapists-he has been conducting,practica in family therapy in Rome. He created a very active international network with colleagues coming from all over the world,largely through the practicum and a number of international presentations and workshops.

Research Interest

Psychotherapy,Mental Health,Motivational Interviewing,Anxiety Management,Program Development,Cognitive Behavioral Therapy,Neurology