Eugenio Gaddini
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Eugenio Gaddini | |
|---|---|
| Born | 18 January 1916 |
| Died | 27 September 1985 (aged 69) |
| Citizenship |  Italy |
| Alma mater | Sapienza University of Rome |
| Known for | Merycism |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psychoanalysis |
| Institutions | Rome |
| Notes | |
President of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (1978) | |
Eugenio Gaddini (18 January 1916 – 27 September 1985) was an Italian physician and psychoanalyst. He was one of the most important psychoanalysts in Italy and occupied a prominent place in the international psychoanalytic movement. He was interested in psyche birth and its progress beginning with lived experience. He is best known for his ideas on the rumination syndrome, or merycism. He wrote several books and papers including A psychoanalytic theory of infantile experience.[1]
Eugenio Gaddini, born in Cerignola (Apulia, Italy), received a philosophic and literary education and earned his M.D. in 1942 from the University of Rome. From 1951, he was analyzed by Emilio Servadio (it)[2] and in 1956 he gave up his position as head physician in Roma hospital to devote himself to psychoanalysis.[3]
Admitted in 1953 to the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, he became president in 1978 and editor of Rivista di Psicoanalisi (the Italian Review of Psychoanalysis). He held a teaching position at the Rome Psychoanalytic Center and founded the Florence Psychoanalytic Center. He was a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association.
He died in Rome in 1985.
