Publications

• Caldironi L., “Navigare a vista: una bussola d’artista”, in “Le zattere di Ulisse. Dieci psicoanalisti interpretano i luoghi, le donne, i miti dell’Odissea” a cura di Molino A., Poiesis, Alberobello (Bari), 2023

• Molino A., Borsari P., Caldironi L., “Ulisse e il nostro tempo. Ipotesi psicoanalitiche”, in “Raccordi”, Aracne, 2021

• De Luca J., Caldironi L., ‘Intuizione: Interferenza’, Modelli di Supervisione, Koinos (Gruppo e Funzione Analitica), Rivista Istituto Italiano Psicoanalisi di Gruppo, anno IX - numero 2 - luglio-dicembre 2021, Roma

• Molino A., Borsari P., Caldironi L., ‘Ulisse e il Nostro tempo’ Ipotesi Psicoanalitiche, Aracne-rivista.it, Settembre 22, 2021 (https://aracne-rivista.it/uncategorized/ulisse-e-il-nostro-tempo-ipotesi-psicoanalitiche/)

• Caldironi L.,: “Quarantine in Venice”, Room 2.21, A Sketchbook for Analytic Action, IPTAR, NYC, USA

• Caccamo F., Caldironi L., Ghedin S.: “Effectiveness of a short-term psychotherapeutic group for doctors and nurses in a Hospice in Southern Europe” in “Progress in Palliative Care,” April, 2019.

• Caldironi L.: “Psychoanalysis and cyberspace” – Shifting frames and floating bodies – in “Reconsidering the moveable frame in Psychoanalysis”, Edited by Isaac Tylim and Adrienne Harris, Routledge ed. New York, 2017

• Caldironi L., Ghedin S., Marogna C., Caccamo F.: “Caring for caretakers. Evaluation of burnout and alexithymia in a palliative care ward.” National Meeting American Psychoanalytic Association, 18-22 January. (2017)

• Caldironi L.: “A stripe on a tiger’s coat!”; Mimesis Editor, Roma, 2016

• Ghedin, S., Marogna, C., Caccamo, F., Caldironi, L.: “The intertwining of process and outcome in the start-up phase of a group for palliative care workers”. XI National Congress SPR-Italy Area Group. Subjects of the therapeutic relationship between clinical and research. Milan, October 21-22. (2016) L’intrecciarsi di processo ed esito nella fase di avvio di un gruppo per operatori in cure palliative. XI Congresso Nazionale SPR-Italy Area Group. I soggetti della relazione terapeutica tra clinica e ricerca. Milano, 21-22 ottobre. (2016)

• Caccamo, F., Marogna, C., Ghedin, S., Caldironi, L., Petricola, F.: “As an image for the pain without a name: the taboo of death and the emotional experience of operators in the Hospice”. Proceedings of the XIV National Congress of the Social Psychology Section of AIP, Naples, September 22-24. (2016) Quale immagine per il dolore senza nome: il tabù della morte ed il vissuto emotivo degli operatori nell’Hospice. Atti del XIV Congresso Nazionale della Sezione di Psicologia Sociale dell’AIP, Napoli, 22-24 Settembre. (2016)

• Caccamo, F., Marogna, C., Ghedin, S., Caldironi, L.: “The assessment of burnout and alexithymia in a palliative care unit”. V Conference of the Italian Network for Empirical Research on Psychodynamic Groups, Rome, 11-12 March. (2016) La valutazione del burnout e dell’alessitimia in un reparto di cure palliative. V Convegno del Network italiano per la ricerca empirica sui gruppi psicodinamici, Roma, 11-12 Marzo. (2016)

• Caldironi L.: “Working through the 'caesura': a clinical illustration”; JAPA (J Am Psychoanal Assoc), August, vol. 64, no. 4777-793, 2016                           

• Ghedin S., Semi A., Caccamo F., Caldironi L., Marogna C., Piccione F., Stabile M.R., Lorio R., Vidotto G.:” Emotionally focused couple therapy with Neurodegenerative diseases: a pilot study”. 'The American Journal of Family Therapy'. 20, Sep. 2016, Routledge Ed.                       

• Caldironi, L., Ghedin, S., Marogna, C., Caccamo, F., Petricola, F.: “Experiences of healthcare workers at the Hospice “Le Rose” in Latina (Italy): a comparison between two Photolangage© groups”. National Meeting American Psychoanalytic Association, 17-19 January. (2016)

• Ghedin, S., Marogna, C., Caccamo, F., Caldironi, L., Piredda, C., Petricola, F.: “The experience of the operators in the Latin "Rose" Hospice: a comparison through the Photolangage group”. XXII National Congress SICP (Italian Society of Palliative Care). Life quality. Quality of care. 4-7 November, Sorrento. (2015) Il vissuto degli operatori nell’ Hospice “Le Rose” Latina: un confronto attraverso il gruppo di Photolangage. XXII Congresso Nazionale SICP (Società Italiana di Cure Palliative). Qualità della vita. Qualità delle cure. 4-7 Novembre, Sorrento. (2015)

• Caldironi L.: “Tra Mito, Arte e Pensiero: una via 'sghemba' per il futuro partendo da W. Bion” (“Between Myth, Art and Thought: a crooked way for the Future starting from W. Bion”); in 'Sconfinamenti: escursioni psicoantropologiche' ('Trespassing: Psycho-Anthropological Excursions'), Mimesis Editor, Milano 2014

• Ghedin S., Caldironi L., Piredda C., D'addario M.R., Petricola F., Marogna C.: “Weaving Thoughts: group experience with nurses in a Hospice”; JAPA (Journal of American Psychoanalytic Association), June 2014, vol. 62, N. 3

• Caldironi L., Chao-Ying Wang: “Cross-Cultural Psychoanalytic Practices in Cases of 

• a Chinese and an Italian Patient: Two Case Scenarios”, I.P.A. Published, 2011

• Caldironi L.: “Oblio della memoria e alba del futuro”, (“Oblivion of memory and the dawn of the future, a challenge”), in Second Thoughts: Funzione Alfa e cambiamento catastrofico, Koinos, Gennaio-Giugno 2008, Anno XXIX, n. 1, Borla, Roma

• Giampà M., Caldironi L.: “Il vuoto mentale tra misticismo e terrore ipotalamico”, (“The Mental Void Between Mysticism and the Hypothalamic Fear”), in Marinelli S. (a cura di), Studi ed esperienze a partire da Bion, 2008, Borla, Roma. 

• Giampà M., Beggiora S., Caldironi L.: “Sogno iniziatici e stato oniroide nello sciamanismo indiano e sub-himalayano”, (“Dream and oniroide initiation in the Indian and sub-Himalayan shamanism") in “Mito Sogno Gruppo”, (“Myth, Dream and Group”) a cura di Marinelli S., Vasta F., Borla editore, Roma 2004 

• Caldironi L.: “Guru: mediatore di guarigione”, (“The Guru as Mediator of Healing”); Attualità in Psicologia, vol. 19- N.3-4, Edizioni Universitarie Romane, 2004, Roma

• Caldironi L.: “The Guru as Mediator of Healing”, in “Guru”, a cura di Rigopulos A., Indoasiatica, Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina, Venezia, 2004

• Caldironi L., Giampà M.: “La memoria come sogno” or “Dream-like Memory”, www.Psychomedia.it, 2000 (International meeting for Parthenope Bion)

• Caldironi L.: “Spazi e prospettive: punti di vista per una visione bin-oculare”, (“Spaces and perspectives: perspectives for a bin-ocular viewing” ) in Atti del 2° National Congress Art and Therapy, “Cercando Casa” (Architetture e Luoghi di Possibili Incontri), a cura di Carlo Coppelli, Carpi, (Mo) 2002

PSYCHIATRIC PUBLICATIONS

• Rigatelli M., Bianchini M., Caldironi L., Ferrari A. : “La consulenza psichiatrica nell’ospedale generale: contributo per un programma individualizzato di assistenza domiciliare al paziente con A.I.D.S., atti del convegno “L’assistenza domiciliare allepersone con A.I.D.S: confronto di esperienze italiane e straniere”, 1992 ("The Psychiatric Consultation in the general Hospital: a contribution to an individualized program of home care to AIDS patients, " Home care to people with AIDS: comparison of Italian and foreign experiences" ), 1992

• Rigatelli M., Caldironi L., Ferrari A., Sartini F. “La dimissione dall’ospedale del paziente seguito in consulenza”  Atti convegno nazionale di psichiatria  XXXVIII, 1992 ("The patient's discharge from hospital following advice” in Proceedings of National Congress of Psychiatry XXXVIII ), 1992

• Rigatelli M., Bianchini M., Caldironi L., Merelli E.: “Psicopatologia sistema immunitario e sclerosi multipla” ("Immune system psychopatology and Multiple Sclerosis" ),  Psichiatria e Medicina, anno VI, n.3, Milano, 1992

• Rigatelli M., Merelli E., Bianchini M., Sola P., Caldironi L., Faglioni P.: “Affective states, immunology and Multiple Sclerosis “in “Stress and related disorders” (from adaptation to dysfunction), Parthenon Publishing Group, Carnforth, UK, 1990

RESEARCH & GROUPS

• 2012 — 2015

As a member of the Psychodynamic Psychoanalytic Research Society (P.P.R.S.), I am involved in various research initiatives in the field of applied Psychoanalysis. My area of interest is the processing of traumatic experience. I’ve worked on several projects as a team supervisor for groups that consist of both colleagues and trainees, and the results of our work is presented every January at the annual meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association in New York City. Much of the material introduced addresses the experiences and repercussions of traumatic situations from the point of view of both patients and staff, and in the context of medical units dealing with severe medical illness and mortality (hospice, palliative care, etc.).

• 2006 — Present  

I work as moderator in clinical supervision groups with the ‘Weaving Thoughts’ method. This method proposes a unique way of working in small clinical groups that meet together. Sharing clinical ideas, especially with an international context, is an important and highly productive experience in contemporary psychoanalysis. As a research group, its aim is to draw up and define the main parameters that come into play in psychoanalytic treatment (as practiced nowadays), while still incorporating the nuances in theoretical and practical matters that are typical of it. The goal is to create a genuine work of reflection—an associative “fabric” to which each participant brings his or her thinking, ideas and hypotheses. Relying much less on secondary processes, and more on free association, such group work resembles dream-thinking and is more representative of true psychoanalytic functioning. Through elaboration within the group’s interactive space, the patient that the presenter introduces to the group for the purpose of analysis then becomes 'the patient of the group'.  As such, the presenter has the opportunity to broaden his or her understanding of that particular patient’s case and, even more essentially, the group participants will be enabled to create—to live—an altered experience that will enhance their clinical work.

I have groups in Italy (Vittorio Veneto, Venezia-Mestre) and I had invitations to moderate groups also in New York with Marilyn Rifkin LCSW (November 2016, April 2017). Dr Rifkin is a training and supervising analyst, faculty member and Fellow at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR).  She is also a supervisor and faculty member at IPTAR’s Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program (CAP) and at the Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (MITPP). She is a member of the IPA and APsaA and is on the board of directors of the Confederation of Independent Psychoanalytic Societies (CIPS). She has written and presented on the subjects of transference, countertransference, enactment, psychosomatics, and trauma. She has a private practice in New York City and Westchester.

Additionally, I had monitored other groups in New York with Ronnie Shaw, who is one of the moderators and co-Chair WPSPTT of this method in North America. Groups were held in New York in March 2015 and March 2014, as well as in Boston in July 2015.

Personal Changes of the Method:

• 2006 — Present

I started using this way of working not only for clinical supervisions, but also for wide ring the creative processes in the field of art.

The area of interest is the interface of 'Psychoanalysis, Art and Creativity’. I've presented theories about this subject in several international meetings, and have also published my findings in peer reviewed journals. To pursue this interest, I created two exhibitions spaces in Venice in which artists and psychoanalysts could meet and work (2005). This project, called 'Psychoanalysis beyond the couch’, is currently coordinating meetings in Venice and in New York City in which psychoanalysts and artists are both able to explore the ways in which their disciplines overlap and complement one other. For this I applied the method in art galleries:

• 2015

‘Fohat’ (Venice) October 31, 2015: A ‘Salon’ curated by Orseola Barozzi and Chiara Zanella - O&C Antiques, Venice Actually, Luca Caldironi with Special Guest: Toma Clark Haines - The Antiques Diva 

• 2014

In the evening of May 31, Tian Fangfang and Tian Yuan sisters' solo exhibition "Nowhere to Live" was opened in Castello925 Gallery (Venice, Italy). The exhibition was curated by Chinese curator Yu Gao and Italian curator Luca Caldironi Venice Art Biennale 2014

• 2014

‘Come Together: Collage’, Molly Krom Gallery, New York (January, 2014) and Castello 925 Gallery, Venice (February, 2014). An exhibition about Collage as an Esthetic-Ethical Paradigm by two curators, Luca Caldironi (curator, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, based in Venice) and Molly Krom (curator, psychiatrist, based in New York).