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Giovanni Liotti is an Italian psychiatrist and psychotherapist who has been practicing in Rome since 1945. He teaches courses on attachment theory and its implications for psychotherapy. His interest in clinical applications of attachment theory dates back to 1975. He has published numerous papers on the links between dissociative psychopathology and disorganized attachment, for which he received the 2005 Pierre Janet Writing Award. He is a frequently invited speaker on topics relating to attachment theory and trauma-related disorders.

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Disorders", New York, The Guilford Press, 1983) - Since Then, This Interest Has Focused Mainly On

Giovanni Liotti is an Italian psychiatrist and psychotherapist who has been practicing in Rome since 1945. He teaches courses on attachment theory and its implications for psychotherapy. His interest in clinical applications of attachment theory dates back to 1975. He has published numerous papers on the links between dissociative psychopathology and disorganized attachment, for which he received the 2005 Pierre Janet Writing Award. He is a frequently invited speaker on topics relating to attachment theory and trauma-related disorders.

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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Giovanni Liotti, MD. (born 1945) Psychiatrist and psychotherapist practicing in Rome, Italy. Currently teaches Implications of attachment theory for psychotherapy in the APC School of Psychotherapy and in the Postgraduate School of Clinical Psychology of the Salesian University, Roma, Italy. His interest for the clinical applications of attachment theory and research dates back to 1975, and was first expressed in a book co-authored with V.F. Guidano, (Cognitive processes and emotional disorders, New York, The Guilford Press, 1983). Since then, this interest has focused mainly on the links between dissociative psychopathology and disorganization of attachment. For the papers published on this theme, he received the 2005 Pierre Janets Writing Award (The International Society for the Study of Dissociation). He has been an invited speaker at the John Bowlby Memorial Conference, London 2007 and will be Keynote Speaker to the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Section of Psychotherapy Annual Bi-National Conference, 2008, on the theme of attachment disorganization in trauma-related disorders.

-----------------------------------------/ Co-authored book Guidano, V., & Liotti, G. (1983) Cognitive processes and emotional disorders. New York: Guilford Press.

Journal articles and chapters in edited books

Liotti G. (1989) Attachment and cognition. In C. Perris, I. Blackburn, H. Perris (Eds.), The theory and practice of cognitive psychotherapy. New York: Springer. Liotti, G. (1991) Patterns of attachment and the assessment of interpersonal schemata: Understanding and changing difficult patient-therapist relationships in cognitive psychotherapy. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 5: 105-114. Liotti, G. (1992) Disorganized/ disoriented attachment in the etiology of the dissociative disorders. Dissociation, 5: 196-204. Liotti, G. (1993) Disorganized attachment and dissociative experiences: An illustration of the developmental-ethological approach to cognitive therapy. In K.T. Kuehlvein & H. Rosen (Eds.) Cognitive therapies in action (pp.213-239). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Liotti G. (1995) Disorganized / disoriented attachment in the psychotherapy of the dissociative

disorders. In S. Goldberg, R. Muir, J. Kerr (Eds), Attachment Theory: Social, developmental and clinical perspectives. Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press. (pp. 343-363). Liotti G. (1999) Understanding the dissociative processes: The contribution of attachment theory. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 19: 757-783. Liotti G. (1999) Disorganized attachment and dissociative psychopathology: The contribution of attachment theory. In J. Solomon, C. George (Eds.) Attachment Disorganization. New York: Guilford. Liotti G. (2000) Disorganized attachment, models of borderline states, and evolutionary psychotherapy. In P. Gilbert, K. Bailey (Eds.) Genes on the couch: Essays in evolutionary psychotherapy. Hove: Psychology Press. Liotti, G. (2004) Trauma, dissociation and disorganized attachment: three strands of a single braid. Psychotherapy: Theory, research, practice, training, 41: 472-486. Liotti, G. (2006) A model of dissociation based on attachment theory and research. Journal of trauma and dissociation, 7: 55-74. Liotti, G. & Intreccialagli, B. (2003) Disorganized attachment, motivational systems and metacognitive monitoring in the treatment of a patient with borderline syndrome. In M. Cortina & M. Marrone (Eds.) Attachment theory and the psychoanalytic process. London: Whurr. (pp. 356381). Liotti, G., Mollon, P. & Miti, G. (2005) Dissociative disorders. In G. Gabbard, J. Beck & J. Holmes (Eds.), Oxford Textbook of Psychotherapy, Oxford, Oxford University Press. Liotti G., Pasquini, P. & The Italian Group for the Study of Dissociation (2000) Predictive factors for borderline personality disorder: Patients early traumatic experiences and losses suffered by the attachment figure. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 102: 282-289. Migone, P. & Liotti, G. (1998) Psychoanalysis and cognitive-evolutionary psychology: An attempt at integration. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 79: 1071-1093. Pasquini, P., Liotti, G. et. al. (2002) Risk factors in the early family life of patients suffering from dissociative disorders. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 105: 110-116. Sloman, L. Atkinson, L., Milligan, K. & Liotti, G. (2002) Attachment, social rank, and affect regulation: Speculations on an ethological approach to family interaction. Family Process, 41: 479493.

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