Person
MUCCI Clara
Professori Ordinari
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Communications
Attachment (CV)
CV MUCCI italiano Marzo 2025.docx.pdf (CV_MUCCI)
Curriculum Vitae
Clara Mucci has been a Full Professor of Dynamic Psychology at the University of Bergamo since 2020, where, since 2021, she has also served as Chair of the Master's Program in Clinical Psychology (Department of Human and Social Sciences, SUS). Prior to this, she was a Full Professor of English Literature and Shakespearean Studies at the D'Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara.
Since September 2023, she has co-directed the advanced training course on the diagnosis and treatment of eating disorders at the University of Bergamo, alongside Prof. Andrea Greco. She is also the Director of the School of Specialization in Health Psychology, established in January 2024 at the University of Bergamo.
After earning a degree in English Literature in 1984, Mucci completed a PhD in English Studies at the University of Genoa in 1994. She also holds a PhD in English Literature, Anthropology, and Psychoanalysis from the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies at Emory University, Atlanta, USA (1999). In 2004, she completed a five-year degree in Clinical Psychology at the University of Chieti, followed by a specialization in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from the SIPP (Italian Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy) in Rome in 2012, pursued at the Milan branch.
She trained with a six-month internship at the Personality Disorders Institute led by Otto Kernberg in New York (2005-2006), and continued supervision and contacts with the institute for many years. Mucci is also certified in administering and coding the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) from the school of Main and Hesse, Berkeley, California, under the supervision of D. Jukobvitz and N. Dazzi in Rome, as well as in Reflective Functioning under Howard Steele of the New School for Social Research, New York.
She is the author of five monographs on Shakespeare, literary theory, and women's writing (Liminal Personae, 1995; Tempeste, 1998; Il teatro delle streghe, 2001; A memoria di donna, 2004; I corpi di Elisabetta, 2009) and several psychoanalytic works on trauma, including Il dolore estremo (Borla, 2008); Trauma e perdono (Cortina, 2014), first published in English by Karnac Books, London, with the title Beyond Individual and Collective Trauma.
In 2017, she co-edited Unrepressed Unconscious, Implicit Memory, and Clinical Work with G. Craparo for Karnac Books, London, which was translated into Italian by Giunti in 2023 (Inconscio non rimosso e memoria implicita. Dialogo tra psicoanalisi e neuroscienze). In 2018, her work Borderline Bodies. Affect Regulation for Personality Disorders was published for the Norton’s Interpersonal Neurobiology series, directed by Louis Cozolino, and translated into Italian by Cortina as Corpi Borderline. Regolazione affettiva e clinica dei disturbi di personalità (2020).
In 2022, Mucci published Resilience and Survival. Understanding and Healing Intergenerational Trauma with Confer Books, London (now Karnac), which was translated and expanded for Cortina under the title Riparare il futuro. Come creare resilienza tra le generazioni (2024). With Arnold Rachman, she co-authored Confusion of Tongues Theory of Trauma: A Relational Neurobiological Perspective (Routledge, New York and London, 2023). The updated and expanded edition of Il dolore estremo was published in April 2024 under the title Psychoanalysis as Testimony. Trauma from Freud to Ferenczi to present time thinkers (Guerriero Editore, 2024).
She is a board reviewer for the American Journal of Psychoanalysis, the International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Perspectives, and is on the editorial board of Wise Baby. Il Poppante Saggio. Mucci is an Associate Member of the SIPP, a full member and supervisor of the SIPeP-SF, a full member of the AIP, the International Ferenczi Network, and the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP).
She serves as Scientific Advisor for the Center for Family and Relational Therapy in Rome, directed by Luigi Cancrini, and for other Training Institutes in Psychoanalysis. Mucci also teaches training seminars for various psychotherapy schools in Italy and abroad (e.g., Warsaw’s National Institute for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy; London’s Confer; Mendrisio, Switzerland). In the United States, she is a guest supervisor for the National Institute for Psychotherapy (NIP) and has taught at the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy, New York, and for the Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, New York. She has also taught courses in English (Shakespeare) and Italian literature at Hunter College, New York, and the Polytechnic of Central London (now Westminster College), London.
In the fall of 2024, Mucci is serving as an Erikson Scholar at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, USA
Since September 2023, she has co-directed the advanced training course on the diagnosis and treatment of eating disorders at the University of Bergamo, alongside Prof. Andrea Greco. She is also the Director of the School of Specialization in Health Psychology, established in January 2024 at the University of Bergamo.
After earning a degree in English Literature in 1984, Mucci completed a PhD in English Studies at the University of Genoa in 1994. She also holds a PhD in English Literature, Anthropology, and Psychoanalysis from the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies at Emory University, Atlanta, USA (1999). In 2004, she completed a five-year degree in Clinical Psychology at the University of Chieti, followed by a specialization in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from the SIPP (Italian Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy) in Rome in 2012, pursued at the Milan branch.
She trained with a six-month internship at the Personality Disorders Institute led by Otto Kernberg in New York (2005-2006), and continued supervision and contacts with the institute for many years. Mucci is also certified in administering and coding the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) from the school of Main and Hesse, Berkeley, California, under the supervision of D. Jukobvitz and N. Dazzi in Rome, as well as in Reflective Functioning under Howard Steele of the New School for Social Research, New York.
She is the author of five monographs on Shakespeare, literary theory, and women's writing (Liminal Personae, 1995; Tempeste, 1998; Il teatro delle streghe, 2001; A memoria di donna, 2004; I corpi di Elisabetta, 2009) and several psychoanalytic works on trauma, including Il dolore estremo (Borla, 2008); Trauma e perdono (Cortina, 2014), first published in English by Karnac Books, London, with the title Beyond Individual and Collective Trauma.
In 2017, she co-edited Unrepressed Unconscious, Implicit Memory, and Clinical Work with G. Craparo for Karnac Books, London, which was translated into Italian by Giunti in 2023 (Inconscio non rimosso e memoria implicita. Dialogo tra psicoanalisi e neuroscienze). In 2018, her work Borderline Bodies. Affect Regulation for Personality Disorders was published for the Norton’s Interpersonal Neurobiology series, directed by Louis Cozolino, and translated into Italian by Cortina as Corpi Borderline. Regolazione affettiva e clinica dei disturbi di personalità (2020).
In 2022, Mucci published Resilience and Survival. Understanding and Healing Intergenerational Trauma with Confer Books, London (now Karnac), which was translated and expanded for Cortina under the title Riparare il futuro. Come creare resilienza tra le generazioni (2024). With Arnold Rachman, she co-authored Confusion of Tongues Theory of Trauma: A Relational Neurobiological Perspective (Routledge, New York and London, 2023). The updated and expanded edition of Il dolore estremo was published in April 2024 under the title Psychoanalysis as Testimony. Trauma from Freud to Ferenczi to present time thinkers (Guerriero Editore, 2024).
She is a board reviewer for the American Journal of Psychoanalysis, the International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Perspectives, and is on the editorial board of Wise Baby. Il Poppante Saggio. Mucci is an Associate Member of the SIPP, a full member and supervisor of the SIPeP-SF, a full member of the AIP, the International Ferenczi Network, and the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP).
She serves as Scientific Advisor for the Center for Family and Relational Therapy in Rome, directed by Luigi Cancrini, and for other Training Institutes in Psychoanalysis. Mucci also teaches training seminars for various psychotherapy schools in Italy and abroad (e.g., Warsaw’s National Institute for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy; London’s Confer; Mendrisio, Switzerland). In the United States, she is a guest supervisor for the National Institute for Psychotherapy (NIP) and has taught at the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy, New York, and for the Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, New York. She has also taught courses in English (Shakespeare) and Italian literature at Hunter College, New York, and the Polytechnic of Central London (now Westminster College), London.
In the fall of 2024, Mucci is serving as an Erikson Scholar at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, USA