Dr.
Paolo Cianconi is a psychiatrist,
psychotherapist, and anthropologist.
He currently works at the Regina Coeli
Prison, ASL Rome, Italy. Together with
this work, he also carries out research
and teaches at several institutions,
focusing on issues of clinical psychiatry,
psychology, social deviance and
marginality, ethnopsychiatry and
psychology of postmodern life. Dr.
Cianconi also writes on his study of
"mutant syndromes" of globalization and
traditional therapeutic approaches. He
completed research expeditions on
ethnopsychiatry in different national and
international settings, concentrating his
work in places at risk of cultural
collapse and identity loss, such as small
Indio villages in Asia and Central and
South America, as well as Favelas and
Barrios. He is scientific director of the
masters program on ethnopsychiatry at the
Beck Institute in Rome. Dr. Cianconi also
teaches masters programs in a number of
psychotherapy schools in Italy. His
clinical work includes five main areas:
Diagnostics
(Psychodiagnosis);
Clinical work
(Psychotherapy for individuals, couples
and families, and Pharmacotherapy);
Supervision
(Oversight activities on diagnostics,
clinical work and expert legal consultancy
for psychotherapists);
Consultancy
(Psychological-psychiatric expert in
civil, criminal law, religious law,
ethnopsychiatric issues);
Education
(Teaching activities and seminars on
Psychiatry, Forensic Psychiatry, Social
Psychology, Psychology of marginality and
deviance, ethnopsychiatry, Psychology of
Postmodernism, Anthropology).
Dr. Cianconi has been member of
the Board of Physicians and Surgeons in Rome
since 1994, under number 45694. He
received medical certification in Session II
in academic year of 1992-November 1993 at
the University of Rome "La Sapienza". He
received his Degree in Medicine and Surgery
(First Degree) from the University of Rome
"La Sapienza" in Rome on July 30th, 1993
with final marks of 107/110. Dr. Cianconi
received his degree in Psychiatry from The
University "Cattolica" of Rome on October
29th, 1999 with final marks of 50/50 cum
laude, receiving certification to practice
as a psychotherapist on December 28th, 1999.
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129/2007 adopted by the Executive Council of
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June 19th, 2007.
