Gabriella Ripa di Meana

by Editorial Team | Dec 03, 2009 in Authors | Leave A Comment

Gabriella Ripa di Meana is a psychoanalyst who was born in Rome, where she still lives and works today.

Over the years, she has been consistently engaged in psychoanalytic teaching and training. She is a founding member of the psychoanalytical movement Nodi Freudiani (Freudian Knots), the Società Italiana per lo Studio dei Disturbi del Comportamento Alimentare (Italian Society for the Study of Nutritional Behaviour Pathologies), and the international psychoanalytical movement Convergencia.

It is many years now that she has been writing for and collaborating with a good number of Italian, European and international journals, both psychoanalytical and non.

In addition to essays on clinical cases and psychoanalytic theory in journals and anthologies, both Italian and foreign, she has also published several books, including: Figure della leggerezza (Astrolabio, 1995; English translation: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London, 1998); La morale dell’altro (Liberal Libri, 1998); Modernità dell’inconscio (Astrolabio, 2001); Frammenti per una teoria dell’inconscio (Biblink, 2006); Il sogno e l’errore (Astrolabio, 2008); Follear (Collana Shakespeariana, Bulzoni, March 2009: in print).