Biografia

Prof. Dr. Gianfranco Buffardi Ph.D.

Medico, Specialista in Psichiatria, abilitato in Psicologia

Psicoterapeuta, dottore in Filosofia, Phil. Doctor in Bioetica

Ex-Direttore U.O.S.M. distr. san. 13 ASL CASERTA

Professore invitato c/o fac. di Filosofia A.P.R.A., Roma

Didatta a contratto presso Università nazionali

Socio Federation for Existential Therapy in Europe

Presidente Ist. Scienze Umane ed Esistenziali, Napoli

Direttore Scuola di Psicoterapia neoEsistenziale S.P.Es.

Gianfranco Buffardi MD, Ph.D. born in Naples, Italy, 13/08/1957.

I am a psychiatrist, practicing existential therapist, and professor of psychotherapy. I hold degrees in medicine, psychology, philosophy, and hold Ph. D in bioethics.  I am the former Director of a Mental Health Unit in Caserta, Italy; in this work I was engaged many times in national and international research programs. I am Professor of Psychiatry d Mental Health at the “Giustino Fortunato” Telemathic University, former Invited Professor at U.E.R. Rome, and temporary Professor in psychiatric, psychological and philosophical disicplines at other Italian Universities.

I am the founder and president of the Istituto di Scienze Umane ed Esistenziali (ISUE) in Naples, Italy, since 1988, and the chair of the Scuola di Psicoterapia neoEsistenziale (SPEs).

Starting 2024 I attending at board of Federation for Existential Therapy in Europe.

My most recent books are: Bioetica quotidiana in psichiatria, FrancoAngeli 2009; Il divano è meglio di Freud, FrancoAngeli 2015, Dialogues on the search for meaning in existential therapy (with Ernesto Spinelli, SEA, London 2019), Dialogues on the Place of Creativity in Existential Therapy (with Yaqui Andres Martinez Robles, SEA, London 2023). My papers have been published in several national and international professional journals