is a psychologist and family therapist. For over thirty years he has devoted to the study of family therapy and training. In 1984 he founded the per il bambino maltrattato (CbM, Milan) Center and four years later published an important work on the dynamics family in psychosis entitled Psychotic games in the family, who continue anorexic and bulimic girls, abused children, The family addict, change and non therapeutic contexts, and family therapy in psychiatric services.