Doctor Versilia General Hospital, Italy
At the age of 36 years Psychiatrist in chief, since 1992 in the Psychiatric Department of Versilia (Tuscany). Since 1989 he has been contract lecturer in the post graduated school of Psychiatry at the University of Brescia, in the Forensic Psychiatry in the University of Modena, and at the University of Pisa until the direction of Giovanni Cassano. He has published many articles and books on dissociation, behaviour therapy, temperament. In March 2002 he founded with Maria Luisa Figueira the association Bridging Eastern and Western Psychiatry, encouraging the cultural and scientific exchange between Eastern and Western psychiatrists.