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I am a psychiatrist from Italy (born in Brescia, February 1983), and have been based in Barcelona since 2010. After graduating in medicine at the University of Brescia, with a final thesis on paediatric immunological diseases (“Correlation between clinical-immunological data and pulmonary alterations: longitudinal study with 40 patients affected by common variable immunodeficiency”), I decided to carry out a one-year travel and volunteer experience in South America (BLOG).

Finding more questions than answers, I decided to move to Barcelona where I started working as a home visit doctor for private patients (2010-2013), which allowed me to familiarise myself with the Catalan community up close. At the same time, I completed a Master’s degree in basic neurosciences at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, which allowed me to acquire and elaborate renewed theoretical foundations on the functioning of the nervous system and its complex interaction with the rest of the body. Subsequently, I decided to join a working group on multisensory integration processes at Pompeu Fabra University (Multisensory Research Group), where I published my first article on how attention processes modulate perceptions (article).

These training and research experiences in basic sciences prepared me for the residence of psychiatry, which I did via MIR at the Hospital Clínic in Barcelona.

I worked in this hospital for six years, primarily interested in liaison and psychosomatic psychiatry, and developing research activities that allowed me to write a doctoral thesis on the relationship between mental symptoms, the central nervous system and the immune system (“Mood, immunity and brain connectivity in patients with chronic hepatitis C”).  

I collaborated with researchers from different parts of the world, publishing different articles and book chapters, and participating with posters and presentations in different national and international conferences (Pubmed).

I also carried out a 4-month stay at the translational psychiatry research centre of the University of Bordeaux (Nutrineuro), resulting in international recognition of my thesis.

Eager to apply the knowledge acquired to clinical practice in a comprehensive way, I decided to move to a facility dedicated to community psychiatry (Centre Psicoterapéutic de Barcelona CPB – Hospital de día), where I have currently been working as an assistant specialist and coordinator for four years, performing the functions of psychiatrist and psychotherapist in individual and group treatments. At the same time, I have been an associate professor n the psychology subject of the medicine degree at Pompeu Fabra University, until they removed the same psychology subject from the medicine degree program.

The experiences described have allowed me to grow as a researcher, professional, scholar, but above all as a person, and develop a critical, humble, open and curious outlook towards the profession of psychiatry. Aware of the limits of the neuroreductionist and biologist model in the treatment of mental suffering (subjective by nature), I have dedicated myself to exploring new paradigms and languages, becoming interested in the philosophy of mental health and psychotherapies, with the aim of offering the best response to mental suffering, in all its forms.

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