Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsVittorio LingiardiVittorio Lingiardi, M.D., is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, and Full Professor and Director of the Clinical Psychology Specialization Program at the Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome. He is member of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR Italy), of the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP), and of the International Association for Analytical Psychology, IAAP. For Raffaello Cortina Publisher he is Chief Editor of the series “Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Psychotherapy.” His scientific and research areas of interest are (a) assessment of personality disorders, (b) psychotherapy/psychoanalysis research, (c) defense mechanisms, (d) therapeutic alliance, and (e) gender identity and sexual orientation. With the paper “Psychoanalytic Attitudes Towards Homosexuality: An Empirical Research” (International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 85, 2004, pp. 137–158) he won the 2004 Ralph Roughton APA Paper Award. He is the author of many books and papers. With Amadei, Caviglia, and De Bei he coauthored La svolta relazionale. Itinerari italiani (The Relational Turn: Italian Journeys, 2011). With Nancy McWilliams and Robert Wallerstein he is in the Steering and Scientific Committee of the new edition of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (Guilford Press, expected for 2015).Susanna FedericiSusanna Federici, Ph.D., is President, International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy; Founding Member, Faculty, Training Analyst of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology and Relational Psychoanalysis; and Member of the International Board of the International Association Psychoanalytic Self Psychology.