Book Announcement by Alessandro Cavelzani (Italy)

Co-editors Alessandro Cavelzani and Lucia Romeo present successful examples, clinical cases and effective new diagnostic techniques and screening tools, from a public children’s hospital, a private clinic for abused children, and private psychotherapeutic and paediatrician practices in Italy and Japan. Its contributors are daily committed to early detecting and treating different types of child neglect, abuse and maltreatment.

Preventing Child Maltreatments and Traumas includes discussion of the experiences of a psychoanalytic-oriented day clinic for mothers and abused children in Tokyo; the screening activities at the emergency room of the children’s hospital of Milan to detect potential cases of child maltreatments; the microanalysis of videos of parent-child interactions in sessions, derived from Tronick’s and Beebe’s extensive research and practice; and how the analysis of dreams can help the psychoanalyst detect and treat traumas that occurred during childhood.

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Alessandro Cavelzani, Ph.D. is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist for children and adults in private practice in Milan. A member of IARPP, he has volunteered at Buzzi Children’s Hospital of Milan and Melloni Hospital of Milan, preventing and treating child maltreatments and post-partum depression. His publications include “Dyadic Expansion of Consciousness and Therapeutic Change in the Analyst-Patient Interaction” with Edward Tronick (Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 2016), “Pregnancy and Childbirth during Covid-19 Lockdown in Patients under Treatment for Psychological Disorders” (Journal of Integrative Medicine, 2020) and “Micro-Traumatic Experiences and Psychotherapeutic Treatment” (Journal of Integrative Medicine, 2018).

Lucia Romeo, MD is a pediatrician and Head of the TIMMI Unit for Preventing Child Maltreatment at Buzzi Children’s Hospital of Milan. Her publications include “Can Family Pediatricians in Italy Identify Child Abuse?” in Minerva Pediatrica Journal and “Abuso e maltrattamento” in Manuale di Pediatria.

Alessandro Cavelzani, Ph.D.
Milan, Italy
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Lucia Romeo, MD
Milan, Italy
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