About Luca

I completed my University education in Medicine at Bologna University. On completion of this I specialized in Psychiatry at the Modena University Hospital.

My psychoanalytical training was completed within the Italian Society of Psychoanalysis (S.P.I.), in which my membership is continued to this date. I am a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association (I.P.A.).

Following my experience in the University Hospital (Modena) working as a psychiatric consultant, I now work and have been working for many years in private practice in Modena and Venice.

I am a Medical Doctor, a Psychiatrist, a Psychotherapist and a licensed Psychoanalyst of the Italian Society of Psychoanalysis (S.P.I.), member of the International Psychoanalytic Association (I.P.A.). A medical psychoanalyst is a physician with a postdoctoral specialization in psychiatry, who then undergoes an extensive training for many years, based on three elements: personal analysis by a senior analyst specially designated (training and supervising analyst), analysis of several patients conducted under supervision, and completion of an academic curriculum in which seminars on psychoanalytic theory, technique and process are conducted over several years at a post-graduate levels. I am a fully licensed physician, certified in Psychiatry, and, in addition, fully trained as a Psychoanalyst.